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HERE 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 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: Destination Weather: 0 to 2,500 transactions a month (Free) one of HERE's 4 plans
Call: GET /report HERE's only call for this API
API: Current weather API one of HERE'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, UV index.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 2,500 requests a month.
  • One call. You send location to GET /report. You set products to "observation". You can also send units, oneObservation, lang and politicalView. The call returns the weather at the place now.
  • Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: with conditions. Use data: with conditions.

HERE: current weather API alternatives

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

HERE, pay as you go, Destination Weather: 200,001 to 1,000,000 transactions a month (€3.73 per 1,000)MetGIS, €108 monthlyYandex Weather, ₽4,500,000 yearlyAzure Maps, pay as you goReefAPI, $15 monthly
$ per 1,000 places$4.197$4.051$4.477$4.50$4.50
Completeness86%57%71%86%71%
Billingpay as you gomonthlyyearlypay as you gomonthly
Paymonthly€108₽4,500,000monthly$15
Enough foras many as you pay for30,000 calls a month1,000,000 calls a monthas many as you pay forabout 3,333 calls a month
Freshnessunknownliveunknownunknownlive
Who can get itanyone with a HERE account, but for the Base Plan's excluded use cases ("Asset Management", "Usage Based Insurance (UBI)/Telematics", "Optimization")anyone with a MetGIS account, consumers for private purposes only, with no integration into a website or applicationnew customers only, by a contract on the offer, the offer is addressed to legal entities and fully capable individuals who are Residents (Russian citizens or foreign nationals with a Russian residence permit, legal entities created under Russian law and their branches abroad)anyone with an Azure subscriptionanyone

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 2026-10-31.

  1. docs.here.com/destination-weather/docs/get-started-1.md
  2. docs.here.com/destination-weather/docs/report-response-1.md
  3. docs.here.com/destination-weather/docs/resource-report-1
  4. docs.here.com/destination-weather/docs/resource-report-1.md
  5. docs.here.com/destination-weather/reference/weather-api-v3-weatherreport.md
  6. legal.here.com/en-gb/terms/here-platform-terms
  7. here.com/get-started/pricing
  8. here.com/get-started/pricing/base-plan-restrictions
  9. here.com/get-started/pricing/limited-plan-restrictions
  10. here.com/get-started/pricing/rps-limits-excluded-use-cases

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 report (forecast7days) · Weather report (forecast7daysSimple) · Weather report (forecastHourly) · Weather report (forecastAstronomy) · Weather report (alerts) · Weather report (nwsAlerts)
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchobservation – current weather conditions from the eight closest locations to the specified location.
Data
Keep data30 days, and no pre-fetching, caching or storing "except as explicitly allowed by the caching headers (HTTP/1.1 standard) returned by HERE Location Services" (Platform Terms 6.4 j: "Cache or store outside of the Platform any Results that include anything from the use of HERE Content or Location Services for more than 30 days [...] unless Results are used solely for your internal testing, evaluation, or record retention for audit and legal compliance purposes")
Use dataPlatform Terms 5.2: "Subject to your compliance with these Terms and payment of applicable fees, you may [...] a) Access and use HERE Services as described in the relevant Exhibit, Subscription Plan, and Documentation, [...] c) Use HERE Content only for the purposes and in a manner as specified in the relevant Exhibit, Subscription Plan, Documentation, or in a separate written agreement with HERE", 6.3 "Except as otherwise permitted in your Subscription Plan or separate agreement with HERE, you may not: a) Integrate HERE Materials into a ground, aerial, manned, or unmanned vehicle system or any component thereof [...], and b) Use HERE Materials for or in connection with any systems or functions for automatic or autonomous control of ground, aerial, manned, or unmanned vehicle behavior [...]", 6.4 "You may not: a) Use non-HERE datasets with HERE Content or Results in Applications that are made available to End-Users or third parties (as allowed by your license in these Terms). [...], b) Expose HERE Materials to any open source software, open content, open database licenses or other resembling terms where such licenses or terms would [...], c) Modify HERE Content and/or Results, d) Extract sales lead information, category-specific business listings, or mailing or marketing lists, e) Make any derivative works based on or using HERE Materials, reverse engineer, reverse compile, disassemble, or attempt to determine the source code of the HERE Materials, f) Use HERE Materials in connection with a machine learning or artificial intelligence (“AI”) system, including but not limited to, models used in connection with natural language processing, algorithm optimization and training, logical AI/inferencing, machine learning, deep learning, behavioral learning, artificial neural networks, machine perception and motion manipulation, predictive analytics, generative AI, and data extrapolation, g) Use HERE Materials for: (i) benchmarking of third-party data sets, or (ii) a reference to create, enhance, or improve a product or service competitive to HERE, h) Provide Results and/or HERE Content to another person or entity, i) Except as included in an Application, and as permitted in Your license grant from HERE, use HERE Materials to create, develop, enhance, test, or evaluate a platform, product or solution regardless of whether such platform, product or solution contains reference to any HERE Materials, j) Cache or store outside of the Platform any Results that include anything from the use of HERE Content or Location Services for more than 30 days [...] unless Results are used solely for your internal testing, evaluation, or record retention for audit and legal compliance purposes, [...] l) Create any Results that contain unenhanced or unmodified HERE Content or scaling one Request to serve multiple End Users, m) Use incorrect attribution of any information derived from the Platform, [...] o) Use outdated versions of the Platform or HERE Materials.", Location Services Terms 1.3 "you may not use HERE Materials in a manner that pre-fetches, caches, or stores data or Results, except as explicitly allowed by the caching headers (HTTP/1.1 standard) returned by HERE Location Services", the Base Plan excludes the use cases "Asset Management", "Usage Based Insurance (UBI)/Telematics" and "Optimization", and "One app ID can only be used for one application – no sharing" (Base plan restrictions).
Plan
Pay$0
You get2,500 requests a month
Enough for2,500 calls a month
Rate limit
Per day1,000
Per second10
Batch1
The call
You sendproducts "observation", location. Optional: units, oneObservation, lang, politicalView
MethodGET
Path/report
About the plan
PlanDestination Weather: 0 to 2,500 transactions a month (Free)
Who can get itanyone with a HERE account, but for the Base Plan's excluded use cases ("Asset Management", "Usage Based Insurance (UBI)/Telematics", "Optimization"), a Limited Plan customer who gives no payment information is held to 1,000 daily Requests and 10 Requests Per Second on Destination Weather
The 45 fields the plan's answer can hold

country code, country name, state, city, latitude, longitude, distance from requested point, daylight, description, sky code, sky description, temperature, temperature description, feels-like temperature, maximum temperature, minimum temperature, humidity, dew point, precipitation over 1 hour, precipitation over 3 hours, precipitation over 6 hours, precipitation over 12 hours, precipitation over 24 hours, precipitation chance, precipitation description, rainfall, snowfall, snow cover, air code, air description, wind speed, wind direction, wind direction name, wind direction abbreviation, UV index, UV description, barometric pressure, barometric pressure trend, visibility, icon ID, icon name, icon URL, data age in minutes, active alert count, time

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