# Weatherstack, free: Current weather API

> Get instant access to current weather data for millions of global locations, powered by rock-solid data sources and refreshed in real-time.

Weatherstack's current weather API on its Free 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/weatherstack/free
- [Best current weather API in 2026: pricing compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-current-weather-api.txt)
- Get it: https://weatherstack.com/pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.weatherstack.com/current`
- API key: with the plan, on https://weatherstack.com/pricing
- Its API docs: https://docs.apilayer.com/weatherstack/docs/quickstart-guide#current-weather
- Sold by: Weatherstack (https://weatherstack.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: nothing else

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Get instant access to current weather data for millions of global locations, powered by rock-solid data sources and refreshed in real-time.

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: Only while the agreement lasts: You shall not "use, store, or access any weatherstack API Data & Services, or the weatherstack API after the termination of this Agreement".
- Use data: Free plan: pricing page "Non-Commercial Use", Standard, Professional and Business: "Commercial Use". Terms: You may "receive, process, and display weatherstack API Data & Services to individual end-users of your application(s), provided such end users use weatherstack API Data & Services strictly for their own personal use" and "You do not permit Your end users to store, distribute, or otherwise exploit weatherstack API Data & Services for any other purposes", "You are permitted solely to use weatherstack API Data & Services for reference by Your end users" and "under no circumstances whatsoever may You transfer or permit the transfer of weatherstack API Data & Services outside of your application(s)". "You shall not:" "reproduce, copy, modify, distribute, market, display, transfer, sublicense, assign, prepare derivative work(s) or adaptation(s) based on, sell, exchange, barter or transfer, rent, lease, loan, time-share, resell, or in any other manner exploit weatherstack API Data & Services or the weatherstack API", "make access to weatherstack API Data & Services or the weatherstack API available to unauthorized parties, or otherwise post or distribute weatherstack API Data & Services in any public forum including, but not limited to, print, newsletters, radio, television, or internet", "use or permit others to use, market, distribute, or export weatherstack API Data & Services, or the weatherstack API", "use weatherstack API Data & Services or the weatherstack API in any manner or for any purpose that violates any law, regulation or right of any person" [...]. Attribution: "Your inclusion of a clickable hyperlink to the weatherstack API website at https://weatherstack.com would be highly appreciated".

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 100 requests a month
- Enough for: 100 calls a month
- Expires: at the end of each month

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## The call

- You send: query. Optional: units, language, callback
- Method: GET
- Path: /current

## About the plan

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

## The 24 fields the plan's answer can hold

location name, country, region, latitude, longitude, time zone, local time, local time epoch, UTC offset, time read, temperature, conditions, conditions code, conditions icon, wind speed, wind direction, cardinal wind direction, pressure, precipitation, humidity, cloud cover, feels-like temperature, UV index, visibility

## Weatherstack's plans (8)

- [Weatherstack, free](https://datacircle.dev/current-weather-apis/weatherstack/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 86% complete, live
- [Weatherstack, $9.99 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/current-weather-apis/weatherstack/9-99-monthly/llms.txt): $0.20 per 1,000, 86% complete, live
- [Weatherstack, $49.99 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/current-weather-apis/weatherstack/49-99-monthly/llms.txt): $0.167 per 1,000, 86% complete, live
- [Weatherstack, $99.99 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/current-weather-apis/weatherstack/99-99-monthly/llms.txt): $0.10 per 1,000, 86% complete, live
- [Weatherstack, $107.88 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/current-weather-apis/weatherstack/107-88-yearly/llms.txt): $0.18 per 1,000, 86% complete, live
- [Weatherstack, $527.88 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/current-weather-apis/weatherstack/527-88-yearly/llms.txt): $0.147 per 1,000, 86% complete, live
- [Weatherstack, $1,019.88 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/current-weather-apis/weatherstack/1019-88-yearly/llms.txt): $0.085 per 1,000, 86% complete, live
- [Weatherstack, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/current-weather-apis/weatherstack/contact-us/llms.txt): 86% complete, live

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

- `GET /current`: [Weatherstack, free](https://datacircle.dev/current-weather-apis/weatherstack/free/llms.txt)

## Weatherstack's APIs (2)

- [Weatherstack: current weather API pricing, 8 plans](https://datacircle.dev/current-weather-apis/weatherstack/free/llms.txt)
- [Weatherstack: weather forecast API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/weather-forecast-apis/weatherstack/49-99-monthly/llms.txt)

## Weatherstack: current weather API alternatives

- [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
- [Weatherbit, $49 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/current-weather-apis/weatherbit/49-monthly/llms.txt): $0.065 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [MetGIS, €4,560 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/current-weather-apis/metgis/4560-yearly/llms.txt): $0.086 per 1,000, 71% complete, live
- [Visual Crossing, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/current-weather-apis/visual-crossing/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): $0.10 per 1,000, 100% 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://docs.apilayer.com/weatherstack/docs/api-documentation
- https://docs.apilayer.com/weatherstack/docs/quickstart-guide
- https://marketplace.apilayer.com/weatherstack-api
- https://weatherstack.com
- https://weatherstack.com/billing-overages-documentation
- https://weatherstack.com/faq
- https://weatherstack.com/pricing
- https://weatherstack.com/terms