# Open-Meteo

22 Hacker News commenters recommended Open-Meteo and 4 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 7 of 13 months. It meets the Hacker Approved badge rule.

**Verdict:** Free weather API offering forecasts and historical data in one call, with no account or API key needed. Critics report occasional timeouts and aggressive rate limiting.

## Why people recommend it

- Forecast and historical data in one call (2 comments): "They have the only weather API I know of that can get both forecast and historical weather with just a single call" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49057916)) "They've got pretty extensive historical and forecast weather apis in easy to consume formats." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46821424))
- Free access with no account needed (4 comments): "the code is build in public on GitHub and I intent to continue running the free API service as is" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46591888)) "we are very determined to keep the Open-Meteo weather API open-access indefinitely" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47074199)) "Open-meteo has a very generous free tier, and reasonable pricing." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49052334))
- Useful for personal and demo projects (3 comments): "Been pulling in some of the newer data and concepts from open-meteo to my home weather display" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46807505)) "how many times do you need to look up the weather for personal use?" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47127520)) "I use it for demos all the time!" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46596236))
- Praised by happy users (4 comments): "Somehow I've managed to avoid learning about Open-Meteo until now, this is really awesome!" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47075792)) "it's really great to have this option available" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47074844)) "I use your service every day. Thank you so much" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47084442))

## What people warn about

- Timeouts and aggressive rate limiting (2 comments): "experienced occasional timeouts even when only making a handful of calls per hour" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46591919)) "got frustrated with their aggressive rate limiting" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47120898))

## Where to get it

- [Visit the official site](https://open-meteo.com/)

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Open-Meteo", https://hackerapproved.com/p/open-meteo/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).