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Google Maps Platform pricing and alternatives: current weather API

Google Maps Platform's sitellms.txtBest current weather API in 2026: pricing compared

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86% complete: 6 of the 7 key fields we checkSee the 7 fields
$0.00per 1,000 placesWe rank 102 plans by price. OpenWeather's £370 monthly plan is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 places: $0.00049.WeatherAPI.com, Weatherbit and Open-Meteo are the best current weather API providers in our benchmark.
Plan: Free Usage Cap one of Google Maps Platform's 9 plans
Call: GET /v1/currentConditions:lookup Google Maps Platform's only call for this API
API: Current weather API one of Google Maps Platform's 3 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, UV index.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 10,000 requests a month. Calls keep working once your requests run out.
  • One call. You send location.latitude and location.longitude to GET /v1/currentConditions:lookup. You can also send unitsSystem and languageCode. The call returns the weather at the place now.
  • Who can get it: anyone who enables billing on a Google Cloud project. Keep data: with conditions. Use data: with conditions.

Google Maps Platform: current weather API alternatives

The table starts with Google Maps Platform's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 places closest to Google Maps Platform's.

Google Maps Platform, pay as you go, 5,000,000+Botoi, $9 monthlyMeteosource, $9 monthlyOpen-Meteo, €1,099 yearly, API Professional, GET /v1/forecast, Current weather, fullWeatherXu, $20 monthly
$ per 1,000 places$0.038$0.03$0.03$0.037$0.04
Completeness86%71%57%100%86%
Billingpay as you gomonthlymonthlyyearlymonthly
Paymonthly$9$9€1,099$20
Enough foras many as you pay for10,000 calls a day10,000 calls a dayabout 2,777,777 calls a month500,000 calls a month
Freshnessunknownunknownliveliveunknown
Who can get itanyone who enables billing on a Google Cloud projectanyone 18 or olderanyoneanyoneanyone

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. cloud.google.com/maps-platform/terms
  2. cloud.google.com/maps-platform/terms/maps-service-terms
  3. developers.google.com/maps/billing-and-pricing/pricing
  4. developers.google.com/maps/documentation/weather/current-conditions
  5. developers.google.com/maps/documentation/weather/overview
  6. developers.google.com/maps/documentation/weather/policies
  7. developers.google.com/maps/documentation/weather/reference/rest/v1/currentConditions/lookup
  8. developers.google.com/maps/documentation/weather/usage-and-billing
  9. mapsplatform.google.com/pricing/

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, not in the answer
  • UV index
Price
$ per 1,000 places$0.00
Percall
Billingfree
Charges
Also pays forfrom the same budget: Weather API: Get daily forecast · Weather API: Get hourly forecast
Overage
Units capsoft
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchThe currentConditions endpoint provides information about the current weather conditions at a specific location.
Data
Keep dataCurrent condition: one hour, after which Customer must delete the cached Google Maps Content
Use dataCustomers may not use Google Maps Content retrieved from Weather API to recreate a Google service or product (e.g. use data retrieved from Weather API in a weather app or weather model whose primary purpose is to provide weather information). [...] Customer will not export, extract, or otherwise scrape Google Maps Content for use outside the Services. For example, Customer will not: (i) pre-fetch, index, store, reshare, or rehost Google Maps Content outside the services [...] Customer will not cache Google Maps Content except as expressly permitted under the Maps Service Specific Terms. Customer will not create content based on Google Maps Content. For example, Customer will not: [...] (vii) use Google Maps Content to improve machine learning and artificial intelligence models, including to train, test, validate or fine-tune the models. Customer will not use the Services to create a product or service with features that are substantially similar to or that re-create the features of another Google product or service. Customer’s product or service must contain substantial, independent value and features beyond the Google products or services. [...] Customer will display all attribution that (i) Google provides through the Services (including branding, logos, and copyright and trademark notices), or (ii) is specified in the Maps Service Specific Terms. Customer will not modify, obscure, or delete such attribution.
Plan
Pay$0
You get10,000 requests a month
Enough for10,000 calls a month
Rate limit
Batch1
The call
You sendlocation.latitude, location.longitude. Optional: unitsSystem, languageCode
MethodGET
Path/v1/currentConditions:lookup
About the plan
PlanFree Usage Cap
Who can get itanyone who enables billing on a Google Cloud project
The 28 fields the plan's answer can hold

time, time zone, day or night, conditions, conditions type, conditions icon, temperature, feels-like temperature, dew point, heat index, wind chill, humidity, UV index, precipitation probability, precipitation type, precipitation amount, thunderstorm probability, pressure, wind direction, wind speed, wind gusts, visibility, cloud cover, temperature change over 24 hours, maximum temperature over 24 hours, minimum temperature over 24 hours, precipitation over 24 hours, snow over 24 hours

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