Free & open weather data for developers
No API key. No account. No rate-limit games. Current conditions, 16-day forecasts and historical weather back to 1980, powered by national weather services and community-run stations.
Read the docs Support the projectRequests per minute: 600 for anonymous callers, 10,000 with a free community token.
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Built by weather nerds, funded by donations, used in about 18,000 projects.
Every endpoint works with zero registration. Anonymous calls are rate limited to 600/minute per IP — plenty for side projects and dashboards.
Current conditions blend national MET networks, METAR reports and 40,000+ community stations — with per-source timestamps, not smoothed guesses.
Hourly historical data back to 1980 for most locations. Great for training models, backtesting and climate research.
Anycast endpoints in Amsterdam, Frankfurt and Ashburn. Median response 38 ms. Sensible Cache-Control headers on every response.
The same response shape for current, forecast and history — switch endpoints without rewriting your types. Optional CSV and GeoJSON output.
Coordinates, city names, postal codes and timezone names all work as inputs. Marine data for points at sea.
Fetch the current temperature for any point on Earth:
# no key, no auth, just a URL curl "https://api.freeweatherapi.org/v1/current?lat=52.09&lon=5.12"
{
"latitude": 52.09,
"longitude": 5.12,
"timezone": "Europe/Amsterdam",
"current": {
"time": "2026-10-15T14:32",
"temperature_2m": 14.1,
"apparent_temperature": 11.3,
"relative_humidity": 82,
"precipitation": 0.4,
"weather_code": 61,
"wind_speed_10m": 23.4,
"observed_at": "2026-10-15T14:15"
}
}
No paywalled tiers, no ads, no data resale. Infrastructure costs are covered by donations and a small number of commercial sponsors.
If your company relies on freeweatherapi.org, consider a monthly donation — it pays for the ingest cluster, the historical archive and the domain. Details on the support page.
“We swapped a $300/month weather vendor for freeweatherapi.org in an afternoon. Two years later, zero incidents and the historical archive is deeper than what we paid for.” — Marta K., backend engineer at a European logistics platform