# Open-Meteo, free, GET /v1/forecast, Current weather, full: Current weather API

> Get detailed JSON hourly weather forecasts for up to 7 or 16 days by specifying the geographical coordinates and desired weather variables in the API endpoint.

Open-Meteo's current weather API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 places. It returns all 7 key fields we check: Temperature, Precipitation, Wind, Conditions, Humidity, Pressure, 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/open-meteo/free-get-v1-forecast-current-weather-full
- [Best current weather API in 2026: pricing compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-current-weather-api.txt)
- Get it: https://open-meteo.com/en/pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.open-meteo.com/v1/forecast`, Current weather, full
- API key: not needed
- Its API docs: https://open-meteo.com/en/docs
- Sold by: Open-Meteo (https://open-meteo.com)
- Checked: 2026-10-30

## In the answer

- Completeness: 100%
- Temperature: ✓
- Precipitation: ✓
- Wind: ✓
- Conditions: ✓
- Humidity: ✓
- Pressure: ✓
- UV index: ✓

## Price

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

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: Air Quality API · Marine API · Flood API · Elevation API · Geocoding API

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Get detailed JSON hourly weather forecasts for up to 7 or 16 days by specifying the geographical coordinates and desired weather variables in the API endpoint.

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: While you are permitted to utilise and distribute the data, including for commercial purposes, attribution is a requirement under this licence.
- Use data: Free API: "You may only use the free API services for non-commercial purposes. You accept to the CC-BY 4.0 licence" (terms), paid plans: "A subscription grants a commercial use licence" (pricing page).

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 300,000 requests a month
- Enough for: about 166,666 calls a month

## Rate limit

- Per day: 10,000
- Per second: 1.39

## The call

- You send: latitude, longitude, current "temperature_2m,relative_humidity_2m,apparent_temperature,is_day,precipitation,rain,showers,snowfall,weather_code,cloud_cover,pressure_msl,surface_pressure,wind_speed_10m,wind_direction_10m,wind_gusts_10m,dew_point_2m,visibility,uv_index". Optional: temperature_unit, wind_speed_unit, precipitation_unit, timezone, models
- Method: GET
- Path: /v1/forecast

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone, for non-commercial use alone

## The 28 fields the plan's answer can hold

latitude, longitude, elevation, time zone, time zone abbreviation, UTC offset, generation time, units, time read, interval, temperature, feels-like temperature, humidity, day or night, precipitation, rain, showers, snowfall, conditions, cloud cover, sea-level pressure, surface pressure, wind speed, wind direction, wind gusts, dew point, visibility, UV index

## Open-Meteo's plans (8)

- [Open-Meteo, free, GET /v1/forecast, Current weather, full](https://datacircle.dev/current-weather-apis/open-meteo/free-get-v1-forecast-current-weather-full/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [Open-Meteo, €29 monthly, API Standard, GET /v1/forecast, Current weather, full](https://datacircle.dev/current-weather-apis/open-meteo/29-monthly-api-standard-get-v1-forecast-current-weather-full/llms.txt): $0.059 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [Open-Meteo, €99 monthly, API Professional, GET /v1/forecast, Current weather, full](https://datacircle.dev/current-weather-apis/open-meteo/99-monthly-api-professional-get-v1-forecast-current-weather-full/llms.txt): $0.04 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [Open-Meteo, €160 monthly, API Professional (10 million calls), GET /v1/forecast, Current weather, full](https://datacircle.dev/current-weather-apis/open-meteo/160-monthly-api-professional-10-million-calls-get-v1-forecast-current-weather-full/llms.txt): $0.032 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [Open-Meteo, €319 yearly, API Standard, GET /v1/forecast, Current weather, full](https://datacircle.dev/current-weather-apis/open-meteo/319-yearly-api-standard-get-v1-forecast-current-weather-full/llms.txt): $0.054 per 1,000, 100% 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
- [Open-Meteo, €1,760 yearly, API Professional (10 million calls), GET /v1/forecast, Current weather, full](https://datacircle.dev/current-weather-apis/open-meteo/1760-yearly-api-professional-10-million-calls-get-v1-forecast-current-weather-full/llms.txt): $0.03 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [Open-Meteo, contact us, API Enterprise (50 million API calls), GET /v1/forecast, Current weather, full](https://datacircle.dev/current-weather-apis/open-meteo/contact-us-api-enterprise-50-million-api-calls-get-v1-forecast-current-weather-full/llms.txt): 100% complete, live

## Open-Meteo's calls for this API (2)

- `GET /v1/forecast`, Current weather: [Open-Meteo, free, GET /v1/forecast, Current weather](https://datacircle.dev/current-weather-apis/open-meteo/free-get-v1-forecast-current-weather/llms.txt)
- `GET /v1/forecast`, Current weather, full: [Open-Meteo, free, GET /v1/forecast, Current weather, full](https://datacircle.dev/current-weather-apis/open-meteo/free-get-v1-forecast-current-weather-full/llms.txt)

## Open-Meteo's APIs (3)

- [Open-Meteo: air quality API pricing, 8 plans, GET /v1/air-quality, Air quality](https://datacircle.dev/air-quality-apis/open-meteo/free-get-v1-air-quality-air-quality/llms.txt)
- [Open-Meteo: air quality API pricing, 8 plans, GET /v1/air-quality, Air quality, full](https://datacircle.dev/air-quality-apis/open-meteo/free-get-v1-air-quality-air-quality-full/llms.txt)
- [Open-Meteo: current weather API pricing, 8 plans, GET /v1/forecast, Current weather, full](https://datacircle.dev/current-weather-apis/open-meteo/free-get-v1-forecast-current-weather-full/llms.txt)
- [Open-Meteo: weather forecast API pricing, 8 plans, GET /v1/forecast, Weather forecast](https://datacircle.dev/weather-forecast-apis/open-meteo/free-get-v1-forecast-weather-forecast/llms.txt)
- [Open-Meteo: weather forecast API pricing, 8 plans, GET /v1/forecast, Weather forecast, full](https://datacircle.dev/weather-forecast-apis/open-meteo/free-get-v1-forecast-weather-forecast-full/llms.txt)

## Open-Meteo: current weather API alternatives

- [Weather Unlocked, $14 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/current-weather-apis/weather-unlocked/14-monthly/llms.txt): $0.0093 per 1,000, 71% complete, live
- [Seniverse, CNY 600 pack](https://datacircle.dev/current-weather-apis/seniverse/cny-600-pack/llms.txt): $0.015 per 1,000, 57% complete, live
- [Weatherbit, $209 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/current-weather-apis/weatherbit/209-monthly/llms.txt): $0.028 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [Meteosource, $9 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/current-weather-apis/meteosource/9-monthly/llms.txt): $0.03 per 1,000, 57% 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://open-meteo.com/
- https://open-meteo.com/en/docs
- https://open-meteo.com/en/licence
- https://open-meteo.com/en/pricing
- https://open-meteo.com/en/terms