Open-Meteo weather

Current weather and forecasts for any latitude and longitude.

What it gives you

Current weather and forecasts for any latitude and longitude. The example asks for the current temperature at 2 metres and the wind speed at 10 metres, for Ludhiana.

Terms and limits

The free API is for non-commercial use, under 10,000 calls a day, 5,000 an hour and 600 a minute, with no uptime guarantee; data is under the CC BY 4.0 licence, so give credit. A commercial use needs the paid customer API with a key (Open-Meteo's terms and pricing pages).

_Read on 14 November 2026 from open-meteo.com/en/terms and open-meteo.com/en/pricing._

Good habits

1. Cache answers that do not change often.
2. Handle errors: the service may be busy or down.
3. Give credit where the terms ask for it.
4. Do not put secret keys into a web page: this API needs none, but many others do.

The same request in code

curl

curl -L "https://api.open-meteo.com/v1/forecast?latitude=30.9&longitude=75.85&current=temperature_2m,wind_speed_10m"

Python

import json, urllib.request

with urllib.request.urlopen("https://api.open-meteo.com/v1/forecast?latitude=30.9&longitude=75.85&current=temperature_2m,wind_speed_10m") as r:
    data = json.load(r)
print(data['current'])

JavaScript (browser or Node.js)

const res = await fetch("https://api.open-meteo.com/v1/forecast?latitude=30.9&longitude=75.85&current=temperature_2m,wind_speed_10m");
const data = await res.json();
console.log(data.current);

A real answer

This is what the example request above returned when we called it on 14 November 2026 with the default values (it took about 0.7 s from our computer). Values such as times and temperatures change.

{
  "latitude": 30.896309,
  "longitude": 75.83432,
  "generationtime_ms": 0.04875659942626953,
  "utc_offset_seconds": 0,
  "timezone": "GMT",
  "timezone_abbreviation": "GMT",
  "elevation": 250.0,
  "current_units": {
    "time": "iso8601",
    "interval": "seconds",
    "temperature_2m": "°C",
    "wind_speed_10m": "km/h"
  },
  "current": {
    "time": "2026-11-14T01:30",
    "interval": 900,
    "temperature_2m": 19.0,
    "wind_speed_10m": 1.8
  }
}

This is an independent directory. It is not connected with any of the services listed. Each address was called on 14 November 2026 with curl, Python, Node.js and Chrome (from a page on another site), and the answer shown is a real one. APIs change: check the service's own page before you depend on it.