# Open-Meteo, free, GET /v1/forecast, Weather forecast: Weather forecast API

> Get detailed JSON hourly weather forecasts for up to 7 or 16 days by specifying the geographical coordinates and desired weather variables in the API endpoint.

Open-Meteo's weather forecast API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 places. It returns all 6 key fields we check. 3 are in the plan's price: Temperature, Precipitation, Humidity. 3 cost extra: Wind, Conditions, Sun.
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/open-meteo/free-get-v1-forecast-weather-forecast
- [Best weather forecast API in 2026: pricing compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-weather-forecast-api.txt)
- Get it: https://open-meteo.com/en/pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.open-meteo.com/v1/forecast`, Weather forecast
- API key: not needed
- Its API docs: https://open-meteo.com/en/docs
- Sold by: Open-Meteo (https://open-meteo.com)
- Checked: 2026-10-30

## In the answer

- Completeness: 100%
- Temperature: ✓
- Precipitation: ✓
- Wind: ✓ costs more
- Conditions: ✓ costs more
- Humidity: ✓
- Sun: ✓ costs more

## Price

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

## Charges

- Extra fields: conditions: +$0.00 · sea-level pressure: +$0.00 · surface pressure: +$0.00 · cloud cover: +$0.00 · visibility: +$0.00 · wind speed: +$0.00 · wind direction: +$0.00 · wind gusts: +$0.00 · UV index: +$0.00 · day or night: +$0.00 · daily conditions: +$0.00 · high: +$0.00 · low: +$0.00 · feels-like high: +$0.00 · feels-like low: +$0.00 · highest UV index: +$0.00 · sunrise: +$0.00 · sunset: +$0.00 · daylight: +$0.00 · sunshine: +$0.00 · total rain: +$0.00 · total showers: +$0.00 · total snowfall: +$0.00 · total precipitation: +$0.00 · precipitation hours: +$0.00 · highest precipitation chance: +$0.00 · highest wind speed: +$0.00 · highest wind gusts: +$0.00 · dominant wind direction: +$0.00
- Also pays for: from the same budget: Air Quality API · Marine API · Flood API · Elevation API · Geocoding API

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Get detailed JSON hourly weather forecasts for up to 7 or 16 days by specifying the geographical coordinates and desired weather variables in the API endpoint.

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: While you are permitted to utilise and distribute the data, including for commercial purposes, attribution is a requirement under this licence.
- Use data: Free API: "You may only use the free API services for non-commercial purposes. You accept to the CC-BY 4.0 licence" (terms), paid plans: "A subscription grants a commercial use licence" (pricing page).

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 300,000 requests a month
- Enough for: 300,000 calls a month

## Rate limit

- Per day: 10,000
- Per second: 1.39

## Speed

- Median: 0.11 s

## The call

- You send: latitude, longitude, hourly or daily (the variables you want). Optional: forecast_days (up to 16, 7 by default), past_days, temperature_unit, wind_speed_unit, precipitation_unit, timezone, models
- Method: GET
- Path: /v1/forecast

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone, for non-commercial use alone

## The 20 fields the plan's answer can hold

latitude, longitude, elevation, time zone, time zone abbreviation, UTC offset, generation time, units, hour, temperature, feels-like temperature, humidity, dew point, precipitation chance, precipitation, rain, showers, snowfall, snow depth, day

## Open-Meteo's plans (8)

- [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
- [Open-Meteo, €29 monthly, API Standard, GET /v1/forecast, Weather forecast](https://datacircle.dev/weather-forecast-apis/open-meteo/29-monthly-api-standard-get-v1-forecast-weather-forecast/llms.txt): $0.033 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [Open-Meteo, €99 monthly, API Professional, GET /v1/forecast, Weather forecast](https://datacircle.dev/weather-forecast-apis/open-meteo/99-monthly-api-professional-get-v1-forecast-weather-forecast/llms.txt): $0.022 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [Open-Meteo, €160 monthly, API Professional (10 million calls), GET /v1/forecast, Weather forecast](https://datacircle.dev/weather-forecast-apis/open-meteo/160-monthly-api-professional-10-million-calls-get-v1-forecast-weather-forecast/llms.txt): $0.018 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [Open-Meteo, €319 yearly, API Standard, GET /v1/forecast, Weather forecast](https://datacircle.dev/weather-forecast-apis/open-meteo/319-yearly-api-standard-get-v1-forecast-weather-forecast/llms.txt): $0.03 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [Open-Meteo, €1,099 yearly, API Professional, GET /v1/forecast, Weather forecast](https://datacircle.dev/weather-forecast-apis/open-meteo/1099-yearly-api-professional-get-v1-forecast-weather-forecast/llms.txt): $0.021 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [Open-Meteo, €1,760 yearly, API Professional (10 million calls), GET /v1/forecast, Weather forecast](https://datacircle.dev/weather-forecast-apis/open-meteo/1760-yearly-api-professional-10-million-calls-get-v1-forecast-weather-forecast/llms.txt): $0.017 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [Open-Meteo, contact us, API Enterprise (50 million API calls), GET /v1/forecast, Weather forecast](https://datacircle.dev/weather-forecast-apis/open-meteo/contact-us-api-enterprise-50-million-api-calls-get-v1-forecast-weather-forecast/llms.txt): 100% complete, live

## Open-Meteo's calls for this API (2)

- `GET /v1/forecast`, Weather forecast: [Open-Meteo, free, GET /v1/forecast, Weather forecast](https://datacircle.dev/weather-forecast-apis/open-meteo/free-get-v1-forecast-weather-forecast/llms.txt)
- `GET /v1/forecast`, Weather forecast, full: [Open-Meteo, free, GET /v1/forecast, Weather forecast, full](https://datacircle.dev/weather-forecast-apis/open-meteo/free-get-v1-forecast-weather-forecast-full/llms.txt)

## Open-Meteo's APIs (3)

- [Open-Meteo: air quality API pricing, 8 plans, GET /v1/air-quality, Air quality](https://datacircle.dev/air-quality-apis/open-meteo/free-get-v1-air-quality-air-quality/llms.txt)
- [Open-Meteo: air quality API pricing, 8 plans, GET /v1/air-quality, Air quality, full](https://datacircle.dev/air-quality-apis/open-meteo/free-get-v1-air-quality-air-quality-full/llms.txt)
- [Open-Meteo: current weather API pricing, 8 plans, GET /v1/forecast, Current weather](https://datacircle.dev/current-weather-apis/open-meteo/free-get-v1-forecast-current-weather/llms.txt)
- [Open-Meteo: current weather API pricing, 8 plans, GET /v1/forecast, Current weather, full](https://datacircle.dev/current-weather-apis/open-meteo/free-get-v1-forecast-current-weather-full/llms.txt)
- [Open-Meteo: weather forecast API pricing, 8 plans, GET /v1/forecast, Weather forecast](https://datacircle.dev/weather-forecast-apis/open-meteo/free-get-v1-forecast-weather-forecast/llms.txt)

## Open-Meteo: weather forecast API alternatives

- [Weatherbit, $495 monthly, Business, GET /v2.0/forecast/daily](https://datacircle.dev/weather-forecast-apis/weatherbit/495-monthly-business-get-v2-0-forecast-daily/llms.txt): $0.0083 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [Weather Unlocked, $14 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/weather-forecast-apis/weather-unlocked/14-monthly/llms.txt): $0.0093 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [Seniverse, CNY 600 pack, Extra visits 6,000,000 (额外访问量), GET /v3/weather/hourly.json](https://datacircle.dev/weather-forecast-apis/seniverse/cny-600-pack-extra-visits-6000000-get-v3-weather-hourly-json/llms.txt): $0.015 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [Meteosource, $199 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/weather-forecast-apis/meteosource/199-monthly/llms.txt): $0.017 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://open-meteo.com/
- https://open-meteo.com/en/docs
- https://open-meteo.com/en/licence
- https://open-meteo.com/en/pricing
- https://open-meteo.com/en/terms