# WeatherAPI.com, free: Weather forecast API

> Up to 14 days of daily and hourly forecast with astronomy, chance of rain and snow, alerts and air quality. 15-minute interval with tp=15.

WeatherAPI.com's weather forecast API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 places. It returns all 6 key fields we check: Temperature, Precipitation, Wind, Conditions, Humidity, 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/weatherapi-com/free
- [Best weather forecast API in 2026: pricing compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-weather-forecast-api.txt)
- Get it: https://www.weatherapi.com/pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.weatherapi.com/v1/forecast.json`
- API key: with the plan, on https://www.weatherapi.com/pricing
- Its API docs: https://www.weatherapi.com/docs/forecast-api/
- Sold by: WeatherAPI.com (https://www.weatherapi.com)
- Checked: 2026-10-30

## In the answer

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

## Price

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

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: Realtime API · History API · Alerts API · Marine API · Search/Autocomplete API · IP Lookup API · Astronomy API · Time Zone API · Sports API

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Up to 14 days of daily and hourly forecast with astronomy, chance of rain and snow, alerts and air quality. 15-minute interval with tp=15.

## Data

- Keep data: You may cache API responses for performance optimisation subject to the following limits: current conditions data — maximum 60 minutes, forecast data — maximum 24 hours, historical data — no restriction. Caching beyond these limits or storing data beyond your subscription term constitutes a breach of these Terms and Conditions.
- Use data: You may access, view and make copies of the data in the API for your personal or commercial use, including making the data in the API available in online and/or mobile applications/services (a single API key/subscription may be used in respect of one online or mobile application/service only) [...] If you are a Free API user then for all uses of the data, you will credit WeatherAPI.com by name or brand logo as the source of the data. [...] You agree not to sell our weather data to any third party. [...] you warrant that you will not use the Services for any purpose that is unlawful or prohibited by these Terms and Conditions, including: Scraping, bulk downloading, or systematic extraction of data beyond your subscribed plan limits. Using the API in any application or service that facilitates illegal activity. Interfering with or disrupting the integrity or performance of the API infrastructure. Attempting to reverse-engineer, decompile, or derive source code from the API. Using the data in any safety-critical system as the sole data source without independent verification against official meteorological services. [...] Where you make weather data derived from the WeatherAPI.com API available to your own end users [...] you must display a clear, conspicuous, and intelligible disclaimer to those end users.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 100,000 requests a month
- Enough for: 100,000 calls a month

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Median: 0.28 s

## The call

- You send: q (latitude and longitude), days (up to 3 on Free, 7 on Starter, 14 on Pro+ and above). Optional: dt, unixdt, hour, alerts, aqi, pollen, tp, lang, day_fields, hour_fields, et0
- Method: GET
- Path: /v1/forecast.json

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone

## The 48 fields the plan's answer can hold

location name, region, country, latitude, longitude, time zone, local time, date, hour, temperature, feels-like temperature, wind chill, heat index, dew point, humidity, cloud cover, conditions, condition icon, condition code, day or night, precipitation, snowfall, chance of rain, chance of snow, will it rain, will it snow, pressure, visibility, wind speed, wind direction, wind gusts, UV index, high, low, average temperature, average humidity, average visibility, highest wind speed, total precipitation, total snowfall, sunrise, sunset, moonrise, moonset, moon phase, moon illumination, moon up, sun up

## WeatherAPI.com's plans (36)

- [WeatherAPI.com, free](https://datacircle.dev/weather-forecast-apis/weatherapi-com/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [WeatherAPI.com, $7 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/weather-forecast-apis/weatherapi-com/7-monthly/llms.txt): $0.0023 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [WeatherAPI.com, $25 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/weather-forecast-apis/weatherapi-com/25-monthly/llms.txt): $0.005 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [WeatherAPI.com, $65 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/weather-forecast-apis/weatherapi-com/65-monthly/llms.txt): $0.0065 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [WeatherAPI.com, $95 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/weather-forecast-apis/weatherapi-com/95-monthly/llms.txt): $0.0048 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [WeatherAPI.com, $115 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/weather-forecast-apis/weatherapi-com/115-monthly/llms.txt): $0.0038 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [WeatherAPI.com, $145 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/weather-forecast-apis/weatherapi-com/145-monthly/llms.txt): $0.0036 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [WeatherAPI.com, $175 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/weather-forecast-apis/weatherapi-com/175-monthly/llms.txt): $0.0035 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [WeatherAPI.com, $200 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/weather-forecast-apis/weatherapi-com/200-monthly/llms.txt): $0.0029 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [WeatherAPI.com, $275 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/weather-forecast-apis/weatherapi-com/275-monthly/llms.txt): $0.0028 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [WeatherAPI.com, $400 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/weather-forecast-apis/weatherapi-com/400-monthly/llms.txt): $0.0027 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [WeatherAPI.com, $525 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/weather-forecast-apis/weatherapi-com/525-monthly/llms.txt): $0.0026 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [WeatherAPI.com, $650 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/weather-forecast-apis/weatherapi-com/650-monthly/llms.txt): $0.0026 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [WeatherAPI.com, $775 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/weather-forecast-apis/weatherapi-com/775-monthly/llms.txt): $0.0026 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [WeatherAPI.com, $900 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/weather-forecast-apis/weatherapi-com/900-monthly/llms.txt): $0.0026 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [WeatherAPI.com, $1,025 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/weather-forecast-apis/weatherapi-com/1025-monthly/llms.txt): $0.0026 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [WeatherAPI.com, $1,150 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/weather-forecast-apis/weatherapi-com/1150-monthly/llms.txt): $0.0026 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [WeatherAPI.com, $1,275 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/weather-forecast-apis/weatherapi-com/1275-monthly/llms.txt): $0.0026 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [WeatherAPI.com, $75 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/weather-forecast-apis/weatherapi-com/75-yearly/llms.txt): $0.0021 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [WeatherAPI.com, $270 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/weather-forecast-apis/weatherapi-com/270-yearly/llms.txt): $0.0045 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [WeatherAPI.com, $702 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/weather-forecast-apis/weatherapi-com/702-yearly/llms.txt): $0.0059 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [WeatherAPI.com, $1,026 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/weather-forecast-apis/weatherapi-com/1026-yearly/llms.txt): $0.0043 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [WeatherAPI.com, $1,242 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/weather-forecast-apis/weatherapi-com/1242-yearly/llms.txt): $0.0035 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [WeatherAPI.com, $1,566 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/weather-forecast-apis/weatherapi-com/1566-yearly/llms.txt): $0.0033 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [WeatherAPI.com, $1,890 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/weather-forecast-apis/weatherapi-com/1890-yearly/llms.txt): $0.0032 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [WeatherAPI.com, $2,160 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/weather-forecast-apis/weatherapi-com/2160-yearly/llms.txt): $0.0026 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [WeatherAPI.com, $2,970 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/weather-forecast-apis/weatherapi-com/2970-yearly/llms.txt): $0.0025 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [WeatherAPI.com, $4,320 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/weather-forecast-apis/weatherapi-com/4320-yearly/llms.txt): $0.0024 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [WeatherAPI.com, $5,670 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/weather-forecast-apis/weatherapi-com/5670-yearly/llms.txt): $0.0024 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [WeatherAPI.com, $7,020 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/weather-forecast-apis/weatherapi-com/7020-yearly/llms.txt): $0.0023 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [WeatherAPI.com, $8,370 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/weather-forecast-apis/weatherapi-com/8370-yearly/llms.txt): $0.0023 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [WeatherAPI.com, $9,720 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/weather-forecast-apis/weatherapi-com/9720-yearly/llms.txt): $0.0023 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [WeatherAPI.com, $11,070 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/weather-forecast-apis/weatherapi-com/11070-yearly/llms.txt): $0.0023 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [WeatherAPI.com, $12,420 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/weather-forecast-apis/weatherapi-com/12420-yearly/llms.txt): $0.0023 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [WeatherAPI.com, $13,770 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/weather-forecast-apis/weatherapi-com/13770-yearly/llms.txt): $0.0023 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [WeatherAPI.com, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/weather-forecast-apis/weatherapi-com/contact-us/llms.txt): 100% complete

## WeatherAPI.com's calls for this API (1)

- `GET /v1/forecast.json`: [WeatherAPI.com, free](https://datacircle.dev/weather-forecast-apis/weatherapi-com/free/llms.txt)

## WeatherAPI.com's APIs (3)

- [WeatherAPI.com: air quality API pricing, 36 plans](https://datacircle.dev/air-quality-apis/weatherapi-com/free/llms.txt)
- [WeatherAPI.com: current weather API pricing, 36 plans](https://datacircle.dev/current-weather-apis/weatherapi-com/free/llms.txt)
- [WeatherAPI.com: weather forecast API pricing, 36 plans](https://datacircle.dev/weather-forecast-apis/weatherapi-com/free/llms.txt)

## WeatherAPI.com: weather forecast API alternatives

- [OpenWeather, £140 monthly, Developer, GET /data/2.5/forecast/hourly](https://datacircle.dev/weather-forecast-apis/openweather/140-monthly-developer-get-data-2-5-forecast-hourly/llms.txt): $0.0019 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [Weather Unlocked, $30 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/weather-forecast-apis/weather-unlocked/30-monthly/llms.txt): $0.0033 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [Weatherbit, $5,700 yearly, Business, GET /v2.0/forecast/daily](https://datacircle.dev/weather-forecast-apis/weatherbit/5700-yearly-business-get-v2-0-forecast-daily/llms.txt): $0.0078 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [Seniverse, CNY 6,000 pack, Extra visits 100,000,000 (额外访问量), GET /v3/weather/daily.json](https://datacircle.dev/weather-forecast-apis/seniverse/cny-6000-pack-extra-visits-100000000-get-v3-weather-daily-json/llms.txt): $0.009 per 1,000, 83% complete, 12 hours

## 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://www.weatherapi.com/api
- https://www.weatherapi.com/docs/forecast-api/
- https://www.weatherapi.com/docs/request-parameters/
- https://www.weatherapi.com/openapi.json
- https://www.weatherapi.com/pricing
- https://www.weatherapi.com/terms