I found a decent free tier API that gives some hourly forecast data (openWeatherMap.com). It's pretty decent, but I started looking at their pricing for paid plans, and like, holy FUCK the "developer" plan is $180 per month! for a weather api? with limited endpoints? Why would anyone pay that much?

What's your favorite free weather API?

EDIT: I ended up going with weatherapi.com. Their endpoints are much more detailed than other options and offer 3 days of hour-by-hour forecast data on free tier, which is best in class.

I tried OpenWeatherMap but I need to put a credit card in and I don't have that right now. I also tried weatherstack but the info it gave me was wrong. Meteo wants a free trial.

Are there alternative weather API that are free and accurate without having put credit details in?

Hi y'all, I'm planning to develop a nautic web application which would require a reliable weather forecast API, but its for a friend and I'm not looking for a super-scalable/pricy option.

I would like to get some recomendations on a reliable and cheap (or free, due that I'd do low requests pet day/month)

I've seen windycom API's but the free version is not for production (not real data) and the paid one is ~1k€/yr

Thanks 4ur time.

I imagine quite a few of you were not using it to begin with, so what's your provider?

I am developing a weather app for iOS and want to add notification alerts like:
“Rain expected at 4:40PM. Stopping around 5:15PM.”

For that, I’m looking for an affordable weather API that provides reasonably accurate precipitation forecasts for the next ~3 hours at 5-minute intervals, mainly for European countries (but ideally global).

Here’s what I’ve found so far:

• Apple WeatherKit – 5-minute data, but only available for the US, Canada, UK, Australia, and Japan.

• Open-Meteo – Available globally, but only in 15-minute intervals.

• Tomorrow.io– Offers 5-minute intervals, but accuracy hasn’t been great in my location (Switzerland). Also pricing may be very high since it’s not listed online.

• OpenWeatherMap – 5-minute intervals, but only for the next hour - and has been criticized on Reddit for low accuracy.

Does anyone have recommendations for other APIs that support 5-minute precipitation forecasts?
Also curious about your experiences—how reliable are these short-term, high-resolution forecasts in your experience?

Title sorta says it all. What do you think/know is the best place place online to gather weather data for the USA is? Including how easy it is to integrate with Tasker. Either via an API call, JSON link, or even simply scraping the HTML data.

I know there's a lot of folks and a lot of Tasks out there to do this. Please share!

Edit: Even if you're using a particular service/website and are looking for alternative(s) - please post what you are using and what you like or don't like about it.

Hello all!

I have a client (think roofing) that wants to be able to schedule roofing crews around upcoming weather forecast. Can someone recommend a service (reasonably priced is ok) that can give us the forecast as a percent chance of rain by zip code that we can refresh every hour or so to put into the scheduling algorithm? We are thinking setting up a program that runs every hour and updates a weather table with the regions zip codes and a column for each upcoming day that we put the percentage chance of rain.

Thanks!

I’m looking for some feedback on people’s experience with weather APIs and flutter. I have a short list of asks: google maps layer support, 5 day forecast, current weather feedback. We just integrated to tomorrow io but needed a rate increase and their entry price was $352 a month and had to pay 12 months in advance!!! Absolutely bonkers!

Ever since Dark Sky announced they were shutting down, I wanted to find a drop-in compatible replacement for the half dozen things around my house that relied on weather data. Moreover, weather forecast are mostly run by governments, I wanted a data source that made this data much easier to use. The combination of these two goals was Pirate Weather. It’s designed to be 1:1 compatible with Dark Sky, and since every processing step is documented, you can work out exactly where the data is coming from and what it means.

All the processing scripts are in the GitHub repository. Since releasing it last year, the API has come a long way, squashing a ton of bugs and improving stability. The community feedback has been invaluable, and I’ll be continuing to make improvements to it over time, with better text summaries coming next!

As part of this, I also put together a repository with a python notebook to grab a weather data variable directly from NOAA and process it, which might also be useful to some applications here!

Hi all, I'd like to create something similar weather table using api on my website.

https://www.romatoday.it/meteo/

Anyone knows a good free API source? Thanks.

So I am creating a GUI which has takes in a city name as the input and outputs the wind speed, temperature and climate description. What weather APIs do you guys recommend me to use?

Thanks in advance

I'm in need of an API that will provide current weather conditions (static location- UK). I had my heart set on Weather Underground but that's not going to be possible for much longer.

I'm still in the process of looking for myself but thought I'd ask, for my recommendations too.

UPDATE:

I've looked at the sites mentioned below and stuck with: Darksky.net, API, their API provides 1,000 free calls per day. (Suggested by Steeze206)

Then for icons I used - https://erikflowers.github.io/weather-icons/ (suggested by Gizm083)

Hey everyone, I'm currently building a Twitter bot that will have the main functionality of tweeting accumulated rainfall (if any) for the past day in specific locations.

I'm currently using the free tier openweathermap API with the Historical weather data endpoint. However, I haven't been able to find it reliable. I've tried to get current and past data by using coordinates that I absolutely know for sure are either currently raining, or have rained, but the returned data has 0 mentions of rain.

Does anybody know of any free weather API that'll help me get what I need?

Thanks!

I know there are a lot of weather providers. Just curious which provider do most people use here? What are the key weather weather variables or cost are we talking about? Thanks!

Hello,

I was planning on using DarkSky for my weather app (will be coded in Swift), but it seems like Apple is going to shutdown this API.

Any other recommendations for detailed weather API ?

Thanks in advance!

I did some research and two of the best contenders I got so far are OpenWeatherMap and DarkSky. The former seems pretty convenient but I read in some threads that it's not very accurate...

With open weather API going to a freemium service, I'm not having a subscription for weather and potentially being charged with a credit card on file because my home assistant wanted to know a basic forecast...

Any other good free weather integrations for HA?