# Google Maps Platform, free: Current weather API

> The currentConditions endpoint provides information about the current weather conditions at a specific location.

Google Maps Platform's current weather API on its Free Usage Cap plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 places. It returns 6 of the 7 key fields we check: Temperature, Precipitation, Wind, Conditions, Humidity, UV index.
We rank 102 plans by price. [OpenWeather's £370 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/current-weather-apis/openweather/370-monthly/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 places: $0.00049.
[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/google-maps-platform/free
- [Best current weather API in 2026: pricing compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-current-weather-api.txt)
- Get it: https://mapsplatform.google.com/pricing/
- Request: `GET https://weather.googleapis.com/v1/currentConditions:lookup`
- API key: with the plan, on https://mapsplatform.google.com/pricing/
- Its API docs: https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/weather/reference/rest/v1/currentConditions/lookup
- Sold by: Google Maps Platform (https://mapsplatform.google.com)
- Checked: 2026-10-30

## In the answer

- Completeness: 86%
- Temperature: ✓
- Precipitation: ✓
- Wind: ✓
- Conditions: ✓
- Humidity: ✓
- UV index: ✓

## Price

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

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: Weather API: Get daily forecast · Weather API: Get hourly forecast

## Overage

- Units cap: soft

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: The currentConditions endpoint provides information about the current weather conditions at a specific location.

## Data

- Keep data: Current condition: one hour, after which Customer must delete the cached Google Maps Content
- Use data: Customers 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 get: 10,000 requests a month
- Enough for: 10,000 calls a month

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## The call

- You send: location.latitude, location.longitude. Optional: unitsSystem, languageCode
- Method: GET
- Path: /v1/currentConditions:lookup

## About the plan

- Plan: Free Usage Cap
- Who can get it: anyone 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

## Google Maps Platform's plans (9)

- [Google Maps Platform, free](https://datacircle.dev/current-weather-apis/google-maps-platform/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 86% complete
- [Google Maps Platform, pay as you go, Cap - 100,000](https://datacircle.dev/current-weather-apis/google-maps-platform/pay-as-you-go-cap-100000/llms.txt): $0.15 per 1,000, 86% complete
- [Google Maps Platform, pay as you go, 100,001 - 500,000](https://datacircle.dev/current-weather-apis/google-maps-platform/pay-as-you-go-100001-500000/llms.txt): $0.12 per 1,000, 86% complete
- [Google Maps Platform, pay as you go, 500,001 - 1,000,000](https://datacircle.dev/current-weather-apis/google-maps-platform/pay-as-you-go-500001-1000000/llms.txt): $0.09 per 1,000, 86% complete
- [Google Maps Platform, pay as you go, 1,000,001 - 5,000,000](https://datacircle.dev/current-weather-apis/google-maps-platform/pay-as-you-go-1000001-5000000/llms.txt): $0.06 per 1,000, 86% complete
- [Google Maps Platform, pay as you go, 5,000,000+](https://datacircle.dev/current-weather-apis/google-maps-platform/pay-as-you-go-5000000/llms.txt): $0.038 per 1,000, 86% complete
- [Google Maps Platform, $275 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/current-weather-apis/google-maps-platform/275-monthly/llms.txt): $2.75 per 1,000, 86% complete
- [Google Maps Platform, $1,200 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/current-weather-apis/google-maps-platform/1200-monthly/llms.txt): $4.80 per 1,000, 86% complete
- [Google Maps Platform, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/current-weather-apis/google-maps-platform/contact-us/llms.txt): 86% complete

## Google Maps Platform's calls for this API (1)

- `GET /v1/currentConditions:lookup`: [Google Maps Platform, free](https://datacircle.dev/current-weather-apis/google-maps-platform/free/llms.txt)

## Google Maps Platform's APIs (3)

- [Google Maps Platform: current weather API pricing, 9 plans](https://datacircle.dev/current-weather-apis/google-maps-platform/free/llms.txt)
- [Google Maps Platform: air quality API pricing, 9 plans, POST /v1/currentConditions:lookup](https://datacircle.dev/air-quality-apis/google-maps-platform/free-usage-cap-post-v1-currentconditions-lookup/llms.txt)
- [Google Maps Platform: air quality API pricing, 9 plans, POST /v1/forecast:lookup](https://datacircle.dev/air-quality-apis/google-maps-platform/free-usage-cap-post-v1-forecast-lookup/llms.txt)
- [Google Maps Platform: weather forecast API pricing, 9 plans, GET /v1/forecast/days:lookup](https://datacircle.dev/weather-forecast-apis/google-maps-platform/free-usage-cap-get-v1-forecast-days-lookup/llms.txt)
- [Google Maps Platform: weather forecast API pricing, 9 plans, GET /v1/forecast/hours:lookup](https://datacircle.dev/weather-forecast-apis/google-maps-platform/free-usage-cap-get-v1-forecast-hours-lookup/llms.txt)

## Google Maps Platform: current weather API alternatives

- [Botoi, $9 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/current-weather-apis/botoi/9-monthly/llms.txt): $0.03 per 1,000, 71% complete
- [Meteosource, $9 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/current-weather-apis/meteosource/9-monthly/llms.txt): $0.03 per 1,000, 57% complete, live
- [Open-Meteo, €1,099 yearly, API Professional, GET /v1/forecast, Current weather, full](https://datacircle.dev/current-weather-apis/open-meteo/1099-yearly-api-professional-get-v1-forecast-current-weather-full/llms.txt): $0.037 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [WeatherXu, $20 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/current-weather-apis/weatherxu/20-monthly/llms.txt): $0.04 per 1,000, 86% complete

## 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://cloud.google.com/maps-platform/terms
- https://cloud.google.com/maps-platform/terms/maps-service-terms
- https://developers.google.com/maps/billing-and-pricing/pricing
- https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/weather/current-conditions
- https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/weather/overview
- https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/weather/policies
- https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/weather/reference/rest/v1/currentConditions/lookup
- https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/weather/usage-and-billing
- https://mapsplatform.google.com/pricing/