No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Is wunderground.com legit or a scam?
Long-established weather forecasting site with clean scans and a 31-year domain history.
Analysis Summary
MT Intelligence
The page displays standard weather forecasts, maps, and news matching the well-known Weather Underground service. The domain is over 31 years old with valid SSL and zero detections from our antivirus network or browser blocklists. Hosting IP shows minimal abuse history. Evidence confirms it is the real site owned by The Weather Company with active business registration in the USA. A small number of user complaints focus on advertisements rather than fraud or data theft.
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for wunderground.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- - Domain age 11387 days (~31 years); founded 1995 as first online weather service by Jeff Masters
- - Official site: wunderground.com provides forecasts, owned by The Weather Company (parent The Weather Company, LLC; address 1001 Summit Boulevard, Brookhaven, GA)
- - Wikipedia confirms: commercial weather service with PWS network, real-time data from NWS and 250k+ stations
- - Trustpilot: 1.7/5 from 98 reviews; complaints focus on post-acquisition changes, ads, forecast accuracy
- - Google Play app: 4.7 stars from 618K+ reviews
- - Reddit threads discuss service decline after Weather Channel/IBM acquisition but confirm it's the real site
- - No malware/phishing detections; links to official privacy/terms on weather.com
- Trustpilotopen
"The website to set up an account is loaded with add scams The website to set up an account is loaded with adds that appear to be part of the account set up but during the set up process ask for a credit card saying "100% Free" don't go any "
- Trustpilotopen
"Advertising on their site is China crap and don’t buy any of it! It’s deceiving pictures of merchandise that are total trash!!"
- Google Playopen
"Everything I care about in a weather app , and nothing I don't. The paltry couple of dollars it takes to go ad free are nothing, compared ..."
Subsidiary of The Weather Company (formerly IBM, now controlled by Francisco Partners); founded 1995, HQ San Francisco, CA
Our research found the site is the authentic Weather Underground service founded in 1995. independent review aggregator shows complaints focused on advertising quality after the IBM acquisition, while the companion app maintains strong user ratings. No malware or phishing reports appear in the results.
Antivirus Engines
Security Scans
Checked against the major public blocklists used by browsers and security tools — no hits.
Contact Verification
We fetched the page and looked for real-world contact details. Legitimate businesses almost always publish an email on their own domain, a phone number, and a postal address. Scam shops usually don't.
- No contact email found anywhere on the page.
- No phone number listed on the page.
- No postal address visible on the page.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://wunderground.com/
- 2301https://wunderground.com/
- 3200https://www.wunderground.com/cross-domain
Server Reputation
Still, stay alert
No major threat indicators — but a clean scan does not guarantee every page is safe, and phishing emails routinely spoof real domains.
- Double-check the exact URL in your address bar
Confirm you are actually on wunderground.com and not a lookalike like w-underground.com.com or an IDN homoglyph.
- Use a password manager
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Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
Referenced Domains
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Safety FAQ
Common questions about this site, answered from the scan data on this page. These are auto-generated — not hand-written — so they always match the underlying report.
- Our automated security review found no threat indicators on wunderground.com. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- wunderground.com passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 82/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. wunderground.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by DigiCert Inc · DigiCert Global G3 TLS ECC SHA384 2020 CA1, expiring in 216 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- wunderground.com is 31.2 years old, registered on 3/30/1995 through CSC Corporate Domains, Inc.. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- No. All 92 antivirus engines in our malware network report wunderground.com as clean.
- No. wunderground.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- wunderground.com resolves to an IP operated by Akamai Technologies, Inc. in US (usage type: Data Center/Web Hosting/Transit). Hosting location alone doesn't make a site good or bad, but unusual geography for a brand's claimed country is one of many signals we weigh.
- We cache results for 24 hours. Signed-in MalwareTips members can trigger a manual rescan at any time using the "Rescan" button on the report page, which re-runs every check from scratch and refreshes this page.
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