Azure Maps pricing and alternatives: weather forecast API, GET /weather/forecast/hourly/json

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83% complete: 5 of the 6 key fields we checkSee the 6 fields

$0.00per 1,000 placesWe rank 165 plans by price. OpenWeather's £370 monthly plan is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 places: $0.00049.Weatherbit, WeatherAPI.com and MET Norway are the best weather forecast API providers in our benchmark.

Plan: Free one of Azure Maps's 3 plans

Call: GET /weather/forecast/hourly/json one of Azure Maps's 2 calls for this API

API: Weather forecast API one of Azure Maps's 3 APIs

About this item

Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
5 of the 6 key fields we check. Temperature, Precipitation, Wind, Conditions, Humidity.
Nothing to pay. You get 1,000 requests a month.
One call. You send query to GET /weather/forecast/hourly/json. You set api-version to "1.1". You can also send duration, unit and language. The call returns the forecast for the place.
Who can get it: anyone with an Azure subscription. Keep data: with conditions. Use data: with conditions.

Azure Maps: weather forecast API alternatives

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

	Azure Maps, pay as you go, <500K, GET /weather/forecast/hourly/json	HERE, pay as you go, Destination Weather: 200,001 to 1,000,000 transactions a month (€3.73 per 1,000), GET /report, Weather report (forecastHourly)	Yandex Weather, ₽4,500,000 yearly	MetGIS, €1,440 yearly, Premium, 30,000 calls a month, annual payment	Google Maps Platform, $1,200 monthly, Pro, GET /v1/forecast/hours:lookup
$ per 1,000 places	$4.50	$4.197	$4.477	$4.501	$4.80
Completeness	83%	100%	100%	100%	83%
Billing	pay as you go	pay as you go	yearly	yearly	monthly
Pay	monthly	monthly	₽4,500,000	€1,440	$1,200
Enough for	as many as you pay for	as many as you pay for	1,000,000 calls a month	30,000 calls a month	250,000 calls a month
Freshness	unknown	unknown	unknown	6 hours	unknown
Who can get it	anyone with an Azure subscription	anyone with a HERE account, but for the Base Plan's excluded use cases ("Asset Management", "Usage Based Insurance (UBI)/Telematics", "Optimization")	new 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 a MetGIS account, consumers for private purposes only, with no integration into a website or application	anyone who accepts the Google Maps Platform Scaled Subscription Terms and Conditions

Every weather forecast 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 2026-10-30.

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
Sun, not in the answer

Price
$ per 1,000 places	$0.00
Per	call
Billing	free

Charges
Also pays for	from the same budget: Get Current Conditions · Get Daily Forecast · Get Current Air Quality · Get Air Quality Daily Forecasts

Not found
$ per 1,000	$0.00

In their words
Their pitch	Use to get a detailed hourly weather forecast for up to 24 hours or a daily forecast for up to 10 days.

Data
Keep data	Customer may not cache or store results delivered by the Azure Maps API for the purpose of scaling such Results (as defined below) to serve multiple users, or to circumvent any functionality in Azure Maps, including but not limited to (i) map data tiles, or (ii) information on the calculation of a path between two (2) or more points (“Route”) information (collectively the “Results”). Caching and storing Results and locations (latitude and longitude pair) or addresses that have been returned from a call to Azure Maps (“Geocode”/ ”Reverse Geocode”) are permitted where the purpose of caching is to reduce latency times of the Customer Solution. Results may not be stored for longer than: (i) the validity period indicated in returned headers, or (ii) 6 months, whichever is shorter.
Use data	Customer may not use Azure Maps, or any part thereof (1) to enable turn-by-turn navigation functionality in any Customer Solution or use within an automatic or autonomous vehicle control, or (2) with a vehicle’s dashboard, or a device connected to a vehicles dashboard, systems, or sensors, except that the device may be connected to the vehicle power source for charging purposes. [...] Customer may not use Azure Maps or any part thereof to create a competing database or service, or a derived database populated wholly or partially with Customer’s content and/or content supplied or created by any third party. Customer will not use the content delivered by the Azure Maps in combination with any other third-party database, except that Customer may layer onto the content a type of content not already included within Azure Maps (such as Customer's proprietary content) or which Microsoft separately licenses to Customer. [...] Customer will not modify or create a derivative work based on Azure Maps, or any part thereof, unless expressly permitted to do so under these terms. [...] Microsoft may, in its sole discretion, limit the rate at which Azure Maps, or any portion thereof, may be called. [...] Customer may not display any Results, and/or Azure Maps Weather service results, solely as described in these Terms, on any third-party content or geographical map database. [...] Customers may not remove, obscure, mask or change any logo and/or copyright notice placed on or automatically generated by Azure Maps. Customer must display in a conspicuous manner within Customer Solution any Microsoft or third-party attribution provided by Microsoft.

Plan
Pay	$0
You get	1,000 requests a month
Enough for	1,000 calls a month

Rate limit
Per second	50
Batch	1

The call
You send	query, api-version "1.1". Optional: duration, unit, language
Method	GET
Path	/weather/forecast/hourly/json

About the plan
Plan	Free
Who can get it	anyone with an Azure subscription

The 27 fields the plan's answer can hold

units, hour, temperature, RealFeel temperature, wet-bulb temperature, dew point, humidity, cloud cover, cloud ceiling, conditions, conditions code, day or night, precipitation indicator, precipitation chance, rain, rain chance, snow, snow chance, ice, ice chance, total liquid, UV index, UV index description, visibility, wind speed, wind direction, wind gusts