# Met Office, free plan, GET /point/hourly: Weather forecast API

> We offer GeoJSON data via three APIs for a single specified location defined by latitude and longitude.

Met Office'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.
We rank 165 plans by price. [OpenWeather's £370 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/weather-forecast-apis/openweather/370-monthly-professional-get-data-2-5-forecast/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 places: $0.00049.
[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-office/free-plan-get-point-hourly
- [Best weather forecast API in 2026: pricing compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-weather-forecast-api.txt)
- Get it: https://datahub.metoffice.gov.uk/pricing/site-specific
- Request: `GET https://data.hub.api.metoffice.gov.uk/sitespecific/v0/point/hourly`
- API key: with the plan, on https://datahub.metoffice.gov.uk/pricing/site-specific
- Its API docs: https://datahub.metoffice.gov.uk/docs/f/category/site-specific/type/site-specific/api-documentation#get-/point/hourly
- Sold by: Met Office (https://datahub.metoffice.gov.uk)
- Checked: 2026-10-30

## In the answer

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

## Price

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

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: Global three hourly spot data · Global daily spot data

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: We offer GeoJSON data via three APIs for a single specified location defined by latitude and longitude.

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: "The data and products listed on Met Office Weather DataHub are made available to you under a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, non-transferable licence to download, use, copy, publish, distribute, transmit, adapt and exploit the Met Office Weather DataHub Products for use in your application. Certain conditions must be met and these are explained in more detail in the terms and conditions. Users are required to include the following attribution statement in their application: “Powered by Met Office data”" (FAQ), commercial use: "Yes. Subject to the terms of the licence granted to you" (FAQ).

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 360 requests a day
- Enough for: 360 calls a day

## Rate limit

- Per day: 360

## The call

- You send: latitude, longitude. Optional: dataSource, excludeParameterMetadata, includeLocationName
- Method: GET
- Path: /point/hourly

## About the plan

- Plan: Free plan
- Who can get it: anyone outside countries under UK government financial sanctions

## The 27 fields the plan's answer can hold

latitude, longitude, elevation, location name, location licence, model run date, distance from requested point, units, forecast time, temperature, highest temperature, lowest temperature, feels-like temperature, dew point, humidity, wind speed, wind direction, wind gusts, highest wind gusts, visibility, sea-level pressure, UV index, conditions, precipitation rate, precipitation, snowfall, precipitation chance

## Met Office's plans (7)

- [Met Office, free plan, GET /point/hourly](https://datacircle.dev/weather-forecast-apis/met-office/free-plan-get-point-hourly/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 83% complete, live
- [Met Office, £9 monthly, Monthly subscription (900 calls per day), GET /point/hourly](https://datacircle.dev/weather-forecast-apis/met-office/9-monthly-monthly-subscription-900-calls-per-day-get-point-hourly/llms.txt): $0.445 per 1,000, 83% complete, live
- [Met Office, £32 monthly, Monthly subscription (3,600 calls per day), GET /point/hourly](https://datacircle.dev/weather-forecast-apis/met-office/32-monthly-monthly-subscription-3600-calls-per-day-get-point-hourly/llms.txt): $0.395 per 1,000, 83% complete, live
- [Met Office, £146 monthly, Monthly subscription (18,000 calls per day), GET /point/hourly](https://datacircle.dev/weather-forecast-apis/met-office/146-monthly-monthly-subscription-18000-calls-per-day-get-point-hourly/llms.txt): $0.360 per 1,000, 83% complete, live
- [Met Office, £250 monthly, Monthly subscription (36,000 calls per day), GET /point/hourly](https://datacircle.dev/weather-forecast-apis/met-office/250-monthly-monthly-subscription-36000-calls-per-day-get-point-hourly/llms.txt): $0.309 per 1,000, 83% complete, live
- [Met Office, £437 monthly, Monthly subscription (72,000 calls per day), GET /point/hourly](https://datacircle.dev/weather-forecast-apis/met-office/437-monthly-monthly-subscription-72000-calls-per-day-get-point-hourly/llms.txt): $0.27 per 1,000, 83% complete, live
- [Met Office, contact us, Invoice plans - Enterprise tier, GET /point/hourly](https://datacircle.dev/weather-forecast-apis/met-office/contact-us-invoice-plans-enterprise-tier-get-point-hourly/llms.txt): 83% complete, live

## Met Office's calls (3)

- `GET /point/daily`: [Met Office, free plan, GET /point/daily](https://datacircle.dev/weather-forecast-apis/met-office/free-plan-get-point-daily/llms.txt)
- `GET /point/hourly`: [Met Office, free plan, GET /point/hourly](https://datacircle.dev/weather-forecast-apis/met-office/free-plan-get-point-hourly/llms.txt)
- `GET /point/three-hourly`: [Met Office, free plan, GET /point/three-hourly](https://datacircle.dev/weather-forecast-apis/met-office/free-plan-get-point-three-hourly/llms.txt)

## Met Office's APIs (1)

- [Met Office: weather forecast API pricing, 7 plans, GET /point/hourly](https://datacircle.dev/weather-forecast-apis/met-office/free-plan-get-point-hourly/llms.txt)

## Met Office: weather forecast API alternatives

- [Weatherstack, $49.99 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/weather-forecast-apis/weatherstack/49-99-monthly/llms.txt): $0.167 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [Seniverse, CNY 999 pack, Visit pack 500,000 (访问量套餐), GET /v3/weather/hourly.json](https://datacircle.dev/weather-forecast-apis/seniverse/cny-999-pack-visit-pack-500000-get-v3-weather-hourly-json/llms.txt): $0.299 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [ReefAPI, $1,200 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/weather-forecast-apis/reefapi/1200-yearly/llms.txt): $0.333 per 1,000, 83% complete, live
- [Xweather, €300 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/weather-forecast-apis/xweather/300-monthly/llms.txt): $0.338 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://datahub.metoffice.gov.uk
- https://datahub.metoffice.gov.uk/docs/f/category/site-specific/overview
- https://datahub.metoffice.gov.uk/docs/glossary
- https://datahub.metoffice.gov.uk/downloads/api-definitions/weathercloud2api_subscriber.json
- https://datahub.metoffice.gov.uk/pricing/site-specific
- https://datahub.metoffice.gov.uk/sample-model-data/site-specific/download/hourly-sample
- https://datahub.metoffice.gov.uk/support/faqs