# Bright Sky, free: Weather forecast API

> Check out /weather for hourly weather observations and forecasts.

Bright Sky's weather forecast API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 places. It returns all 6 key fields we check: Temperature, Precipitation, Wind, Conditions, Humidity, Sun.
Bright Sky limits how many calls you get but gives no number.
Half of the 165 plans we rank by price cost $0.072 per 1,000 places or less. This plan and 8 others tie for the lowest price per 1,000 places of the 165 plans.
[Weatherbit](https://datacircle.dev/weather-forecast-apis/weatherbit/495-monthly-business-get-v2-0-forecast-daily/llms.txt), [WeatherAPI.com](https://datacircle.dev/weather-forecast-apis/weatherapi-com/7-monthly/llms.txt) and [MET Norway](https://datacircle.dev/weather-forecast-apis/met-norway/free-get-weatherapi-locationforecast-2-0-complete/llms.txt) are the best weather forecast API providers in our benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/weather-forecast-apis/bright-sky/free
- [Best weather forecast API in 2026: pricing compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-weather-forecast-api.txt)
- Get it: https://brightsky.dev/
- Request: `GET https://api.brightsky.dev/weather`
- API key: not needed
- Its API docs: https://brightsky.dev/docs/#/operations/getWeather
- Sold by: Bright Sky (https://brightsky.dev/)
- Checked: 2026-10-30

## In the answer

- Completeness: 100%
- Temperature: ✓
- Precipitation: ✓
- Wind: ✓
- Conditions: ✓
- Humidity: ✓
- Sun: ✓

## Score

- Overall score: 51.4
- Price score: 100
- Data score: 9
- Cost to get started score: 100
- Bundle score: 0
- Performance score: 28

## Price

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

## Charges

- Also pays for: nothing else

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Check out /weather for hourly weather observations and forecasts.

## Data

- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: Free for any purpose: "Bright Sky is free-to-use for all purposes. As it solely provides an additional method to access the DWD's meteorological data, the DWD's Terms of Use apply to all data you retrieve through the API." (brightsky.dev). The DWD's Terms of Use: "All open spatial data and spatial data services of the DWD [...] may be re-used under the Creative Commons licence conditions CC BY 4.0 providing the source is acknowledged." (dwd.de legal notice).

## Plan

- Pay: $0

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Median: 0.35 s

## The call

- You send: lat, lon, date. Optional: last_date, max_dist (default 50000 m, at most 500000 m), tz, units
- Method: GET
- Path: /weather

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone

## The 30 fields the plan's answer can hold

forecast time, source ID, cloud cover, conditions, dew point, icon, sea-level pressure, humidity, temperature, visibility, fallback source IDs, precipitation, solar irradiation, sunshine duration, wind direction, wind speed, wind gust direction, wind gusts, precipitation chance, precipitation chance over 6 hours, station name, DWD station ID, WMO station ID, observation type, first record, last record, station latitude, station longitude, station height, distance from the location

## Bright Sky's plans (1)

- [Bright Sky, free](https://datacircle.dev/weather-forecast-apis/bright-sky/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 100% complete

## Bright Sky's calls for this API (1)

- `GET /weather`: [Bright Sky, free](https://datacircle.dev/weather-forecast-apis/bright-sky/free/llms.txt)

## Bright Sky's APIs (2)

- [Bright Sky: current weather API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/current-weather-apis/bright-sky/free/llms.txt)
- [Bright Sky: weather forecast API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/weather-forecast-apis/bright-sky/free/llms.txt)

## Bright Sky: weather forecast API alternatives

- [Weatherbit, free, GET /v2.0/forecast/daily](https://datacircle.dev/weather-forecast-apis/weatherbit/free-get-v2-0-forecast-daily/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [WeatherAPI.com, free](https://datacircle.dev/weather-forecast-apis/weatherapi-com/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [MET Norway, free, GET /weatherapi/locationforecast/2.0/compact](https://datacircle.dev/weather-forecast-apis/met-norway/free-get-weatherapi-locationforecast-2-0-compact/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 83% complete, 6 hours
- [Visual Crossing, free](https://datacircle.dev/weather-forecast-apis/visual-crossing/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 100% complete

## 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://api.brightsky.dev/openapi.json
- https://brightsky.dev/
- https://brightsky.dev/docs/
- https://www.dwd.de/EN/service/legal_notice/legal_notice.html