Serious question: what other national or global-level weather services are freely available via API to end users? With AccuWeather going all-in on premium access and the NWS/NOAA being sabotaged, is there anywhere else with freely available high-quality data out there in readily-ingestible formats?
I’ve been building an open-source weather API over the past few years. It pulls in data from a wide range of global and local high-resolution weather models. The API is free to use without an API key, though there are commercial options available. I'm the sole owner behind it. No VC funding or outside backing.
The core tech is tuned for performance, using local gridded files instead of a traditional database or response caching. This efficiency is what allows it to stay free.
Just wanted to say thank you for this service. I have a little homebrew clock I build from a Raspberry Pi and a small display in my bathroom. Below the time, it displays the weather forecast for the day so I know how to dress. That little clock has become an essential piece of my morning routine.
I switched to Open Meteo a few months ago when the previous API I was using quit working. It's been rock solid and such a nice user experience compared to everything else I tried.
Awesome, I will change https://weather.bingo to use this service; the previous paid API I used was too expensive to justify given I was the only real user :P.
Love open-meteo - no registration or API key required.
Great for tutorials.
I used it my upcoming O'Reilly book- use weather to predict air quality at the street level:
https://github.com/featurestorebook/mlfs-book/
Just wanted to say, seeing you in the wild, thank you very much for the hard work you do on OpenMeteo.
Picked up a commercial license about 3 months ago, service is amazing and have been using it for helping to provide runtime data analysis and anomaly detection for smart home thermostats.
So true, it is so awesome. I've just replaced my weather network bookmark with the open-meteo's "API Response" chart. I hope open-meteo doesn't mind :)
I've been using their free (2.5?) API for a while and just last week moved on to the paid-but-with-free-tier 3.0 API for more info.
You just need to put in your credit card (most likely to prove you're an actual human being) and that'll net you 1000 requests per day for free.
Then go into the settings and set a hard limit at 999 and you'll never get billed.
If whatever you're doing needs to get weather data more often than once per minute, start charging for it or cache data on your end more aggressively to not hit the limit.
