About WeatherPixels

Why WeatherPixels?

After many conversations over the years around which summer was hotter, or which winter was colder, I kept thinking there must be a way to show this visually. I've worked as a software developer for many years and had been looking for a side project that I could build just for fun.

WeatherPixels was born out of that curiosity — a desire to turn raw temperature data into something beautiful and easy to understand at a glance. Instead of scrolling through tables of numbers, you can now see an entire year of weather as a colourful image that tells the story of a place's climate.

What can you do with it?

WeatherPixels lets you explore years of weather data transformed into vibrant visual summaries. You can use it to:

• Compare temperatures at one location across many years — settle the "which summer was hottest" debate once and for all.
• Compare a single year of temperatures across many cities — see how different climates are around the world.
• Spot trends and patterns in weather data that are hard to see in raw numbers.
• Filter by continent, country, or hemisphere to focus on the regions you care about.

How does it work?

WeatherPixels takes hourly temperature data and maps each reading to a colour. The result is a pixel-based image where each row represents a day and each column represents an hour, giving you a complete visual fingerprint of a location's weather for an entire year.

This project is a labour of love and is constantly evolving. If you have ideas for features you'd like to see, or feedback on what's working well, I'd love to hear from you!