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MET Norway pricing and alternatives: weather forecast API, GET /weatherapi/locationforecast/2.0/compact

MET Norway's sitellms.txtBest weather forecast API in 2026: pricing compared

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83% complete: 5 of the 6 key fields we checkSee the 6 fields
$0.00per 1,000 placesHalf 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, WeatherAPI.com and MET Norway are the best weather forecast API providers in our benchmark.
Plan: Free MET Norway's only plan
Call: GET /weatherapi/locationforecast/2.0/compact one of MET Norway's 2 calls
API: Weather forecast API MET Norway's only API

About this item

  • A copy at most 6 hours old. You get the forecast from MET Norway's stored forecasts.
  • 5 of the 6 key fields we check. Temperature, Precipitation, Wind, Conditions, Humidity.
  • Nothing to pay. You get up to 51,840,000 calls a month.
  • One call. You call GET /weatherapi/locationforecast/2.0/compact. You send lat, lon and the User-Agent header. You can also send altitude. The call returns the forecast for the place.
  • Anyone can get it. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

MET Norway: weather forecast API alternatives

We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 places. Each plan in the table gives live data or data at most a day old.

This planMET Norway, free, GET /weatherapi/locationforecast/2.0/compactWeatherbit, free, GET /v2.0/forecast/dailyOpen-Meteo, free, GET /v1/forecast, Weather forecastStrale, freeReefAPI, free
$ per 1,000 places$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00
Completeness83%100%100%50%83%
Billingfreefreefreefreefree
Pay$0$0$0$0$0
Enough for51,840,000 calls a month50 calls a day300,000 calls a monthnot published1,000 calls
Freshness6 hourslivelivelivelive
Who can get itanyoneanyone, for non-commercial use aloneanyone, for non-commercial use aloneanyone who signs up, one trial credit per email addressanyone

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.

  1. api.met.no/
  2. api.met.no/doc/License
  3. api.met.no/doc/TermsOfService
  4. api.met.no/weatherapi/locationforecast/2.0/documentation
  5. api.met.no/weatherapi/locationforecast/2.0/swagger
  6. docs.api.met.no/doc/FAQ
  7. docs.api.met.no/doc/locationforecast/HowTO
  8. docs.api.met.no/doc/locationforecast/datamodel

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
Score
Overall score58.1
Price score100
Data score10
Cost to get started score100
Bundle score0
Performance score100
Price
$ per 1,000 places$0.00
Percall
Billingfree
Charges
Also pays fornothing else
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchWeather forecasts for any location on earth
Data
Freshness6 hours
Keep datano limit
Use dataFree for any purpose: "You can use our data (and within reason, our services) for any purpose you like, as described in the CC BY 4.0 license. This includes paid-for apps or services, including advertising revenue." (FAQ). Asks in return: "All open data require attribution as specified in the CC BY 4.0 license: You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made." (terms), "Credit should be given to The Norwegian Meteorological Institute, shortened MET Norway, as the source of data." (licence), "You are not allowed to make services/sites that appear to be made by Yr, NRK or The Norwegian Meteorological Institute." (terms), processed data: "you must make it clear to the user that the data shown are a derived product and not the responsibility of MET Norway." (FAQ).
Plan
Pay$0
Enough for51,840,000 calls a month
Rate limit
Per second20
Batch1
Speed
Median0.04 s
The call
You sendlat, lon, User-Agent header. Optional: altitude
MethodGET
Path/weatherapi/locationforecast/2.0/compact
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone
The 26 fields the plan's answer can hold

latitude, longitude, updated at, units, forecast time, temperature, humidity, dew point, sea-level pressure, cloud cover, high cloud cover, medium cloud cover, low cloud cover, fog cover, wind speed, wind direction, wind gusts, conditions, precipitation, highest likely precipitation, lowest likely precipitation, precipitation chance, thunder chance, highest temperature, lowest temperature, highest clear-sky UV index

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