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Met Office pricing and alternatives: weather forecast API, GET /point/three-hourly

Met Office'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 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 plan one of Met Office's 7 plans
Call: GET /point/three-hourly one of Met Office's 3 calls
API: Weather forecast API Met Office's only API

About this item

  • Live. Met Office reads the latest forecast when you call the API.
  • 5 of the 6 key fields we check. Temperature, Precipitation, Wind, Conditions, Humidity.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 360 requests a day. Calls stop once your requests run out.
  • One call. You send latitude and longitude to GET /point/three-hourly. You can also send dataSource, excludeParameterMetadata and includeLocationName. The call returns the forecast for each place you send.
  • Who can get it: anyone outside countries under UK government financial sanctions. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

Met Office: weather forecast API alternatives

The table starts with Met Office's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 places closest to Met Office's. Each plan in the table gives live data.

Met Office, £437 monthly, Monthly subscription (72,000 calls per day), GET /point/three-hourlyWeatherstack, $49.99 monthlySeniverse, CNY 999 pack, Visit pack 500,000 (访问量套餐), GET /v3/weather/hourly.jsonReefAPI, $1,200 yearlyXweather, €300 monthly
$ per 1,000 places$0.27$0.167$0.299$0.333$0.338
Completeness83%100%67%83%100%
Billingmonthlymonthlypay firstyearlymonthly
Pay£437$49.99CNY 999$1,200€300
Enough for72,000 calls a day300,000 calls a month500,000 calls300,000 calls a month1,000,000 calls a month
Freshnesslivelivelivelivelive
Who can get itbusinesses anywhere and UK consumers, an international consumer needs the Enterprise optionanyoneanyone with a Seniverse accountanyoneanyone outside the US and Canada

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. datahub.metoffice.gov.uk
  2. datahub.metoffice.gov.uk/docs/f/category/site-specific/overview
  3. datahub.metoffice.gov.uk/docs/glossary
  4. datahub.metoffice.gov.uk/downloads/api-definitions/weathercloud2api_subscriber.json
  5. datahub.metoffice.gov.uk/pricing/site-specific
  6. datahub.metoffice.gov.uk/support/faqs

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
Percall
Billingfree
Charges
Also pays forfrom the same budget: Global hourly spot data · Global daily spot data
Overage
Units caphard
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchWe offer GeoJSON data via three APIs for a single specified location defined by latitude and longitude.
Data
Freshnesslive
Keep datano 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 get360 requests a day
Enough for360 calls a day
Rate limit
Per day360
The call
You sendlatitude, longitude. Optional: dataSource, excludeParameterMetadata, includeLocationName
MethodGET
Path/point/three-hourly
About the plan
PlanFree plan
Who can get itanyone outside countries under UK government financial sanctions
The 30 fields the plan's answer can hold

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

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