# Weatherbit, free, GET /v2.0/current: Current weather API

> This API returns current conditions from sub-hourly reporting stations and atmospheric analyses. Each request returns the nearest and most recent data point.

Weatherbit'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/weatherbit/free-get-v2-0-current
- [Best current weather API in 2026: pricing compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-current-weather-api.txt)
- Get it: https://www.weatherbit.io/pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.weatherbit.io/v2.0/current`
- API key: with the plan, on https://www.weatherbit.io/pricing
- Its API docs: https://www.weatherbit.io/api/weather-current
- Sold by: Weatherbit (https://www.weatherbit.io)
- 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: Daily Forecast API (16 day)

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: This API returns current conditions from sub-hourly reporting stations and atmospheric analyses. Each request returns the nearest and most recent data point.

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: Only with an active commercial license (paid API subscription): "A paid subscription must be maintained for the full duration of storage. If you unsubscribe, any data stored must be deleted."
- Use data: Free and Trial: "Commercial use of our Free/trial/hobbyist tier API" is not accepted and the data is under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 license, with "a do-follow link to Weatherbit.io" as credit, Standard, Plus, Business and Enterprise carry a commercial license. Use of the API for any of the following "will lead to immediate restriction of API use": "Use of our Free tier API to target or trigger advertising", "Commercial use of our Free/trial/hobbyist tier API", "Use of our API for mission critical applications. This includes any service where failure will lead to personal injury, death, or environmental damage", "Using multiple accounts to circumnavigate rate limits", "Use of proxy/anonymous emails to sign up for multiple accounts", "Use of our API to promote illegal activities", "Directing users to sign up for non-commercial account(s) to use in a commercial application", "Reselling of Weatherbit data without an appropriate custom license".

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 50 requests a day
- Enough for: 50 calls a day

## Rate limit

- Per day: 50
- Per second: 1

## Speed

- Median: 0.04 s

## The call

- You send: lat, lon. Optional: include, units, lang
- Method: GET
- Path: /v2.0/current

## About the plan

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

## The 38 fields the plan's answer can hold

observation count, city name, state code, country code, latitude, longitude, time zone, data sources, visibility, humidity, dew point, wind direction, cardinal wind direction, cardinal wind direction text, wind speed, wind gusts, temperature, feels-like temperature, cloud cover, conditions, conditions code, conditions icon, time read, unix timestamp, sunrise, sunset, sea-level pressure, station pressure, US AQI, UV index, solar radiation, global horizontal irradiance, direct normal irradiance, diffuse horizontal irradiance, solar elevation angle, day or night, precipitation, snowfall

## Weatherbit's plans (9)

- [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
- [Weatherbit, free trial](https://datacircle.dev/current-weather-apis/weatherbit/free-trial/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [Weatherbit, $49 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/current-weather-apis/weatherbit/49-monthly/llms.txt): $0.065 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [Weatherbit, $209 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/current-weather-apis/weatherbit/209-monthly/llms.txt): $0.028 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [Weatherbit, $495 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/current-weather-apis/weatherbit/495-monthly/llms.txt): $0.0083 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [Weatherbit, $540 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/current-weather-apis/weatherbit/540-yearly/llms.txt): $0.059 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [Weatherbit, $2,340 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/current-weather-apis/weatherbit/2340-yearly/llms.txt): $0.026 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [Weatherbit, $5,700 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/current-weather-apis/weatherbit/5700-yearly/llms.txt): $0.0078 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [Weatherbit, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/current-weather-apis/weatherbit/contact-us/llms.txt): 100% complete, live

## Weatherbit's calls for this API (1)

- `GET /v2.0/current`: [Weatherbit, free, GET /v2.0/current](https://datacircle.dev/current-weather-apis/weatherbit/free-get-v2-0-current/llms.txt)

## Weatherbit's APIs (3)

- [Weatherbit: current weather API pricing, 9 plans](https://datacircle.dev/current-weather-apis/weatherbit/free-get-v2-0-current/llms.txt)
- [Weatherbit: air quality API pricing, 4 plans, GET /v2.0/forecast/airquality](https://datacircle.dev/air-quality-apis/weatherbit/free-trial-get-v2-0-forecast-airquality/llms.txt)
- [Weatherbit: air quality API pricing, 4 plans, GET /v2.0/current/airquality](https://datacircle.dev/air-quality-apis/weatherbit/free-trial-get-v2-0-current-airquality/llms.txt)
- [Weatherbit: weather forecast API pricing, 9 plans](https://datacircle.dev/weather-forecast-apis/weatherbit/free-get-v2-0-forecast-daily/llms.txt)

## Weatherbit: current weather API alternatives

- [WeatherAPI.com, $65 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/current-weather-apis/weatherapi-com/65-monthly/llms.txt): $0.0065 per 1,000, 86% complete, live
- [Seniverse, CNY 6,000 pack](https://datacircle.dev/current-weather-apis/seniverse/cny-6000-pack/llms.txt): $0.009 per 1,000, 57% complete, live
- [Weather Unlocked, $14 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/current-weather-apis/weather-unlocked/14-monthly/llms.txt): $0.0093 per 1,000, 71% complete, live
- [Meteosource, $139 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/current-weather-apis/meteosource/139-monthly/llms.txt): $0.0093 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://help.weatherbit.io/faq/can-i-store-data-retrieved-from-the-api-locally
- https://help.weatherbit.io/faq/can-i-use-the-api-commercially
- https://www.weatherbit.io
- https://www.weatherbit.io/api/weather-current
- https://www.weatherbit.io/pricing
- https://www.weatherbit.io/static/swagger.json
- https://www.weatherbit.io/terms