# Bright Sky, free: Current weather API

> Check out /current_weather if you want to know what the weather's like right now.

Bright Sky's current weather API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 places. It returns 6 of the 7 key fields we check: Temperature, Precipitation, Wind, Conditions, Humidity, Pressure.
Bright Sky limits how many calls you get but gives no number.
Half 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](https://datacircle.dev/current-weather-apis/weatherapi-com/7-monthly/llms.txt), [Weatherbit](https://datacircle.dev/current-weather-apis/weatherbit/495-monthly/llms.txt) and [Open-Meteo](https://datacircle.dev/current-weather-apis/open-meteo/160-monthly-api-professional-10-million-calls-get-v1-forecast-current-weather/llms.txt) are the best current weather API providers in our benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/current-weather-apis/bright-sky/free
- [Best current weather API in 2026: pricing compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-current-weather-api.txt)
- Get it: https://brightsky.dev/
- Request: `GET https://api.brightsky.dev/current_weather`
- API key: not needed
- Its API docs: https://brightsky.dev/docs/#/operations/getCurrentWeather
- Sold by: Bright Sky (https://brightsky.dev/)
- Checked: 2026-10-30

## In the answer

- Completeness: 86%
- Temperature: ✓
- Precipitation: ✓
- Wind: ✓
- Conditions: ✓
- Humidity: ✓
- Pressure: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 places: $0.00
- Per: call
- Billing: free

## Charges

- Also pays for: nothing else

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Check out /current_weather if you want to know what the weather's like right now.

## Data

- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: Free 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

- Batch: 1

## The call

- You send: lat, lon. Optional: max_dist (default 50000 m, at most 500000 m), tz, units
- Method: GET
- Path: /current_weather

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone

## 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

## Bright Sky's plans (1)

- [Bright Sky, free](https://datacircle.dev/current-weather-apis/bright-sky/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 86% complete

## Bright Sky's calls for this API (1)

- `GET /current_weather`: [Bright Sky, free](https://datacircle.dev/current-weather-apis/bright-sky/free/llms.txt)

## Bright Sky's APIs (2)

- [Bright Sky: current weather API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/current-weather-apis/bright-sky/free/llms.txt)
- [Bright Sky: weather forecast API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/weather-forecast-apis/bright-sky/free/llms.txt)

## Bright Sky: current weather API alternatives

- [WeatherAPI.com, free](https://datacircle.dev/current-weather-apis/weatherapi-com/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 86% complete, live
- [Weatherbit, free, GET /v2.0/current](https://datacircle.dev/current-weather-apis/weatherbit/free-get-v2-0-current/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [Open-Meteo, free, GET /v1/forecast, Current weather](https://datacircle.dev/current-weather-apis/open-meteo/free-get-v1-forecast-current-weather/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [Visual Crossing, free](https://datacircle.dev/current-weather-apis/visual-crossing/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [Ambee, free](https://datacircle.dev/current-weather-apis/ambee/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, live

## 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.

- https://api.brightsky.dev/openapi.json
- https://brightsky.dev/
- https://brightsky.dev/docs/
- https://www.dwd.de/EN/service/legal_notice/legal_notice.html