Where Does Apple Weather Store Data on Mac?
Where the Apple Weather app keeps its data on Mac and how favorite locations sync across iPhone and iPad.
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Apple Weather on Mac is a viewer over Apple's forecast backend plus your saved locations, and the favorites sync through iCloud across iPhone, iPad, Watch and Mac. Local state sits in the app's sandbox container. There is nothing worth backing up by hand.
Exact container contents shift between macOS releases, so treat the path as a starting point. If the folder looks different after an upgrade, the favorites are safe in iCloud regardless. This app arrived properly on Mac with Ventura; older systems never had it.
Where Apple Weather stores this, by platform
~/Library/Containers/com.apple.Weather
Sandbox container for the Mac app (Ventura and later). Favorites sync via iCloud, so a missing or reshuffled folder after an OS upgrade is cosmetic. Use Go to Folder in Finder to peek inside.
Frequently asked questions
How do favorite Weather locations sync?
Through iCloud to every signed in device. Add a city on iPhone and it appears on Mac and Apple Watch without any file copying, which is why there is no export button.
When did Mac get a real Weather app?
Since macOS Ventura, when Apple brought the iOS app to Mac. Earlier Macs only had widgets and Siri for weather, with no full app and no local store at all.
Can I back up Weather data from its folder?
No. Apple serves forecasts from its own WeatherKit backend, so the app is a viewer over network data plus your saved list. Clearing the container only drops caches, never your places.
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