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Bright Sky pricing and alternatives: current weather API

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86% complete: 6 of the 7 key fields we checkSee the 7 fields
$0.00per 1,000 placesHalf of the 102 plans we rank by price cost $0.05 per 1,000 places or less. This plan and 3 others tie for the lowest price per 1,000 places of the 102 plans.WeatherAPI.com, Weatherbit and Open-Meteo are the best current weather API providers in our benchmark.
Plan: Free Bright Sky's only plan
Call: GET /current_weather Bright Sky's only call for this API
API: Current weather API one of Bright Sky's 2 APIs

About this item

  • Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
  • 6 of the 7 key fields we check. Temperature, Precipitation, Wind, Conditions, Humidity, Pressure.
  • Nothing to pay. Bright Sky limits how many calls you get but gives no number.
  • One call. You send lat and lon to GET /current_weather. You can also send max_dist (default 50000 m, at most 500000 m), tz and units. The call returns the weather at the place now.
  • Anyone can get it. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

Bright Sky: current weather API alternatives

We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 places.

This planBright Sky, freeWeatherAPI.com, freeWeatherbit, free, GET /v2.0/currentOpen-Meteo, free, GET /v1/forecast, Current weatherVisual Crossing, freeAmbee, free
$ per 1,000 places$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00
Completeness86%86%100%100%100%100%
Billingfreefreefreefreefreefree
Pay$0$0$0$0$0$0
Enough fornot published100,000 calls a month50 calls a day300,000 calls a month30,000 calls a month100 calls a day
Freshnessunknownlivelivelivelivelive
Who can get itanyoneanyoneanyone, for non-commercial use aloneanyone, for non-commercial use aloneanyoneanyone who signs up on the API dashboard with a Google or business account

Every current weather API provider we score, ranked

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-30.

  1. api.brightsky.dev/openapi.json
  2. brightsky.dev/
  3. brightsky.dev/docs/
  4. dwd.de/EN/service/legal_notice/legal_notice.html

Product details

The key fields this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.

  • Temperature
  • Precipitation
  • Wind
  • Conditions
  • Humidity
  • Pressure
  • UV index, not in the answer
Price
$ per 1,000 places$0.00
Percall
Billingfree
Charges
Also pays fornothing else
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchCheck out /current_weather if you want to know what the weather's like right now.
Data
Keep datano limit
Use dataFree for any purpose: "Bright Sky is free-to-use for all purposes. As it solely provides an additional method to access the DWD's meteorological data, the DWD's Terms of Use apply to all data you retrieve through the API." (brightsky.dev). The DWD's Terms of Use: "All open spatial data and spatial data services of the DWD [...] may be re-used under the Creative Commons licence conditions CC BY 4.0 providing the source is acknowledged." (dwd.de legal notice).
Plan
Pay$0
Rate limit
Batch1
The call
You sendlat, lon. Optional: max_dist (default 50000 m, at most 500000 m), tz, units
MethodGET
Path/current_weather
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone
The 41 fields the plan's answer can hold

time read, source ID, cloud cover, conditions, dew point, icon, sea-level pressure, humidity, temperature, visibility, fallback source IDs, precipitation in the last 10 minutes, precipitation in the last 30 minutes, precipitation in the last 60 minutes, solar irradiation in the last 10 minutes, solar irradiation in the last 30 minutes, solar irradiation in the last 60 minutes, sunshine duration in the last 30 minutes, sunshine duration in the last 60 minutes, wind direction in the last 10 minutes, wind direction in the last 30 minutes, wind direction in the last 60 minutes, wind speed in the last 10 minutes, wind speed in the last 30 minutes, wind speed in the last 60 minutes, wind gust direction in the last 10 minutes, wind gust direction in the last 30 minutes, wind gust direction in the last 60 minutes, wind gust speed in the last 10 minutes, wind gust speed in the last 30 minutes, wind gust speed in the last 60 minutes, station name, DWD station ID, WMO station ID, observation type, first record, last record, station latitude, station longitude, station height, distance from the location

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