天气预报（测）或气象预报（测）是使用现代科学技术对未来某一地点地球大气层的状态进行预测。从史前人类就已经开始对天气进行预测来相应地安排其工作与生活（比如农业生产、军事行动等等）。今天的天气预报主要是使用收集大量的数据（气温、湿度、风向和风速、气压等等），然后使用目前对大气过程的认识（气象学）来确定未来空气变化。由于大气过程的混乱以及今天科学并没有最终透彻地了解大气过程，因此天气预报总是有一定误差的。

Weather forecasting is the application of science and technology to predict the state of the atmosphere for a given location. Human beings have attempted to predict the weather informally for millennia, and formally since the nineteenth century. Weather forecasts are made by collecting quantitative data about the current state of the atmosphere at a given place and using scientific understanding of atmospheric processes to project how the atmosphere will change.