What3Words API

What3Words API

OperationalLast checked:

Mapping·What3Words

Stack Health Score

Score = 30-day uptime − penalties
Latency >500ms: −2 | >1000ms: −5
Outages this month: −2 each
Degradations this month: −1 each
100.0/100

Uptime · Latency · Incidents

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100.00%

UptimePercentage of time the API was available.
Only DOWN status impacts this metric.

151ms

Avg Latency

1,000+

APIs monitored

0

Outages

0

Degradations

This Month

About What3Words's What3Words API

What3Words's What3Words API converts between coordinates and three-word addresses. what3words is a location system dividing the world into three-metre squares. The What3Words API is used by developers worldwide for addressing, geocoding, location sharing, navigation.

Probecast monitors the What3Words API from 4 global regions (US West, US East, Europe, Asia Pacific) every 300 minutes, tracking uptime, latency and regional availability. Our real-time monitoring helps developers and teams understand the current health of What3Words's What3Words API and get alerted the moment service degrades.

Why monitor What3Words API?

If your product depends on What3Words API for critical features, an outage on What3Words's side is an outage on your product. Probecast detects What3Words API incidents before your users do, giving you time to communicate with customers, fall back to alternative services or pause background jobs gracefully.

Current status

As of the latest check, What3Words API is operational. The 30-day uptime is 100.00%, with 0 incidents recorded this month. Average response latency across all regions is 151ms.

Uptime History

30-day uptime100.00%
30 days ago
Operational
Degraded
Down
Yesterday

Regional Status

🇺🇸

US West

Operational

217ms

latency

🇺🇸

US East

Operational

91ms

latency

🇪🇺

Europe

Operational

35ms

latency

🌏

Asia Pacific

Operational

261ms

latency

Latency (24h)

Avg: 141ms
Limit: 5000ms
Min: 86ms
Max: 279ms
279ms140ms0ms
09:06 PM01:11 AM
Last response:
HTTP 401
Showing data from OregonPrimary monitoring node location. See all 4 regions above for regional availability.
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Frequently Asked Questions

Recent Incidents

No incidents recorded

This API has been stable

API Information

Monitored Endpoint

GEThttps://api.what3words.com/v3/available-languages?key=invalid

Provider

What3Words

Category

Mapping

Health Check

GET request

Check Interval

Every 5 minutes

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