# MET Norway, free, GET /weatherapi/locationforecast/2.0/complete: Weather forecast API

> Weather forecasts for any location on earth

MET Norway's weather forecast API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 places. It returns 5 of the 6 key fields we check: Temperature, Precipitation, Wind, Conditions, Humidity.
You get up to 51,840,000 calls a month.
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/met-norway/free-get-weatherapi-locationforecast-2-0-complete
- [Best weather forecast API in 2026: pricing compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-weather-forecast-api.txt)
- Get it: https://docs.api.met.no/doc/FAQ
- Request: `GET https://api.met.no/weatherapi/locationforecast/2.0/complete`
- API key: not needed
- Its API docs: https://api.met.no/weatherapi/locationforecast/2.0/documentation
- Sold by: MET Norway (https://api.met.no)
- Checked: 2026-10-30

## In the answer

- Completeness: 83%
- Temperature: ✓
- Precipitation: ✓
- Wind: ✓
- Conditions: ✓
- Humidity: ✓

## Score

- Overall score: 61.0
- Price score: 100
- Data score: 18
- Cost to get started score: 100
- Bundle score: 0
- Performance score: 100

## 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: Weather forecasts for any location on earth

## Data

- Freshness: 6 hours
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: Free 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 for: 51,840,000 calls a month

## Rate limit

- Per second: 20
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Median: 0.05 s

## The call

- You send: lat, lon, User-Agent header. Optional: altitude
- Method: GET
- Path: /weatherapi/locationforecast/2.0/complete

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone

## The 30 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, temperature 10th percentile, temperature 90th percentile, wind speed 10th percentile, wind speed 90th percentile

## MET Norway's plans (1)

- [MET Norway, free, GET /weatherapi/locationforecast/2.0/complete](https://datacircle.dev/weather-forecast-apis/met-norway/free-get-weatherapi-locationforecast-2-0-complete/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 83% complete, 6 hours

## MET Norway's calls (2)

- `GET /weatherapi/locationforecast/2.0/compact`: [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)
- `GET /weatherapi/locationforecast/2.0/complete`: [MET Norway, free, GET /weatherapi/locationforecast/2.0/complete](https://datacircle.dev/weather-forecast-apis/met-norway/free-get-weatherapi-locationforecast-2-0-complete/llms.txt)

## MET Norway's APIs (1)

- [MET Norway: weather forecast API pricing, 1 plan, GET /weatherapi/locationforecast/2.0/complete](https://datacircle.dev/weather-forecast-apis/met-norway/free-get-weatherapi-locationforecast-2-0-complete/llms.txt)

## MET Norway: 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
- [Open-Meteo, free, GET /v1/forecast, Weather forecast](https://datacircle.dev/weather-forecast-apis/open-meteo/free-get-v1-forecast-weather-forecast/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [Strale, free](https://datacircle.dev/weather-forecast-apis/strale/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 50% complete, live
- [ReefAPI, free](https://datacircle.dev/weather-forecast-apis/reefapi/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 83% 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://api.met.no/
- https://api.met.no/doc/License
- https://api.met.no/doc/TermsOfService
- https://api.met.no/weatherapi/locationforecast/2.0/documentation
- https://api.met.no/weatherapi/locationforecast/2.0/swagger
- https://docs.api.met.no/doc/FAQ
- https://docs.api.met.no/doc/locationforecast/HowTO
- https://docs.api.met.no/doc/locationforecast/datamodel