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meteoblue pricing and alternatives: weather forecast API, GET /packages/basic-3h

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

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67% complete: 4 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 API one of meteoblue's 5 plans
Call: GET /packages/basic-3h one of meteoblue's 4 calls for this API
API: Weather forecast API one of meteoblue's 3 APIs

About this item

  • Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
  • 4 of the 6 key fields we check. Temperature, Precipitation, Wind, Sun.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 10,000,000 credits, enough for 1,250 calls. Unused credits expire after 1 year.
  • One call. You send lat and lon to GET /packages/basic-3h. The call returns the forecast for the place.
  • Who can get it: anyone who registers as a meteoblue user. Keep data: with conditions. Use data: with conditions.

meteoblue: weather forecast API alternatives

The table starts with meteoblue's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 places closest to meteoblue's.

meteoblue, €2,400 yearly, Premium Weather API, 40,000 calls a month, GET /packages/basic-3hGoogle Maps Platform, $1,200 monthly, Pro, GET /v1/forecast/hours:lookupHERE, pay as you go, Destination Weather: 2,501 to 200,000 transactions a month (€4.66 per 1,000), GET /report, Weather report (forecastHourly)Yandex Weather, ₽540,000 yearlyMetGIS, €144 monthly, Premium, 30,000 calls a month, monthly payment
$ per 1,000 places$5.627$4.80$5.244$5.373$5.401
Completeness67%83%100%100%100%
Billingyearlymonthlypay as you goyearlymonthly
Pay€2,400$1,200monthly₽540,000€144
Enough for40,000 calls a month250,000 calls a monthas many as you pay for100,000 calls a month30,000 calls a month
Freshnessunknownunknownunknownunknown6 hours
Who can get itanyoneanyone who accepts the Google Maps Platform Scaled Subscription Terms and Conditionsanyone with a HERE account, but for the Base Plan's excluded use cases ("Asset Management", "Usage Based Insurance (UBI)/Telematics", "Optimization")new customers only, by a contract on the offer, the offer is addressed to legal entities and fully capable individuals who are Residents (Russian citizens or foreign nationals with a Russian residence permit, legal entities created under Russian law and their branches abroad)anyone with a MetGIS account, consumers for private purposes only, with no integration into a website or application

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. business.meteoblue.com/pricing
  2. business.meteoblue.com/products/weather-apis/free-weather-api
  3. content.meteoblue.com/en/about-us/legal/terms-conditions
  4. content.meteoblue.com/en/business-solutions/weather-apis
  5. docs.meteoblue.com/en/weather-apis/packages-api/forecast-data

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, not in the answer
  • Humidity, not in the answer
  • Sun
Price
$ per 1,000 places$0.00
Percall
Billingfree
Charges
Also pays forfrom the same budget: 259 other calls
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchThe Basic package contains commonly used weather forecast variables.
Data
Keep data10.03. REPRODUCTION: METEOBLUE DATA, PRODUCTS or SERVICES may not be stored, reproduced, printed or sent without prior consent of METEOBLUE, except for NON-COMMERCIAL UTILISATION.
Use data5.05. COMMERCIAL LICENSE is a specific set of SERVICE TERMS agreed between CUSTOMER and METEOBLUE. METEOBLUE offers specific contractual terms for business based on their needs. Terms differing from the general terms must be agreed in written. [...] 10.04. RE-ENGINEERING: it is expressly not permitted to use METEOBLUE DATA, PRODUCTS or SERVICES to re-engineer, copy or derive service components, unless permitted in writing by METEOBLUE. [...] 9.05. CREDENTIALS: If METEOBLUE SERVICES are referenced on any WEBSITE a clearly visible reference to METEOBLUE has to be displayed close to the METEOBLUE DATA. [...] 10.07. CUSTOMERS agree to not use any of the services for any illegal, non-ethical, racist, defamatory or abusive purposes, and will not engage in any such activity on our website.
Plan
Pay€0
You get10,000,000 credits
Enough for1,250 calls
Expires1 year
Rate limit
Per second8.33
Batch1
The call
You sendlat, lon. Optional: forecastDays, historyDays, asl, station, name, domain, raw, tz, timeformat, format, temperatureUnit, windSpeedUnit, windDirectionUnit, precipitationUnit
MethodGET
Path/packages/basic-3h
About the plan
PlanFree API
Who can get itanyone who registers as a meteoblue user
The 23 fields the plan's answer can hold

time, temperature, feels-like temperature, wind speed, wind direction, relative humidity, sea level pressure, precipitation, precipitation probability, convective precipitation, snow fraction, precipitation grid, weather condition code, daylight indicator, UV index, latitude, longitude, elevation, time zone, UTC offset, model run time, model run update time, generation time

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