Open-Meteo API: Free Weather Data for Any Location (No Key, No Limits, No BS)

Why I Stopped Paying for Weather APIs I was paying $40/month for a weather API. Then I found Open-Meteo — completely free, no API key, no rate limits, and the data is actually better. Global coverage — any latitude/longitude on Earth 16-day forecast + historical data back to 1940 80+ weather variables (temperature, rain, wind, UV, air quality) No API key — just make HTTP requests No rate limits for non-commercial use Get Current Weather (3 Lines) import requests resp = requests . get ( " https://api.open-meteo.com/v1/forecast " , params = { " latitude " : 40.71 , " longitude " : - 74.01 , # New York " current_weather " : True }) weather = resp . json ()[ " current_weather " ] print ( f " Temperature: { weather [ ' temperature ' ] } °C " ) print ( f " Wind: { weather [ ' windspeed ' ] } km/h " ) print ( f " Condition: { ' Sunny ' if weather [ ' weathercode ' ] == 0 else ' See code ' + str ( weather [ ' weathercode ' ]) } " ) 5-Day Forecast with Hourly Data resp = requests . get ( " http