# wttr.in

Hacker Approved page: https://hackerapproved.com/p/wttr-in/

10 people recommended wttr.in in Hacker News comments, 1 had mixed feelings and 3 criticized it, November 2025 to October 2026. It was recommended in 3 of 12 months, in 3 threads. It does not meet the Hacker Approved badge rule.

6 of the 10 people who recommend it commented in one thread, “Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM”.

**Verdict:** People recommend wttr.in as a plain-text forecast fetched with curl, plus an API. Critics mention a misaligned display and off temperatures.

Summary written by Claude from 10 comments.

## Why people recommend it

- Quick forecast from the terminal via curl (2 comments in the sample): "You don't need anything more than https://wttr.in/ even with all the fancy terminal graphics." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49233120)) "I `curl wttr.in` pretty much every day." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49073580))
- Works as a daily weather app (1 comment in the sample): "That's basically my weather app." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49236715))
- Usable in widgets and custom displays (1 comment in the sample): "They also have a nice API where you can pull the raw weather data and fancy it up any way you like graphically." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49236543))

## What people warn about

- Does not work perfectly for everyone (1 comment in the sample): "wttr.in doesn't work perfectly for me" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49051122))

## Other weather apps people recommend

- [Apple Weather](https://hackerapproved.com/p/apple-weather/): 12 recommend, 6 mixed, 48 criticize
- [Yr](https://hackerapproved.com/p/yr-no/): 12 recommend, 0 mixed, 0 criticize
- [Acme Weather](https://hackerapproved.com/p/acme-weather/): 10 recommend, 7 mixed, 13 criticize
- [Breezy Weather](https://hackerapproved.com/p/breezy-weather/): 8 recommend, 1 mixed, 1 criticize

## Where to get it

- [Visit the official site](https://wttr.in/)

## The badge

A product earns the Hacker Approved badge when at least 10 people recommend it, recommenders outnumber critics at least 2 to 1 (mixed feelings count toward neither side), it was recommended in at least 4 of the 12 months and in at least 5 different threads, and no single thread supplies more than half of the people who recommend it. Health and money products are never badged.

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "wttr.in", https://hackerapproved.com/p/wttr-in/ (10 recommend, 1 mixed, 3 criticize; Hacker News comments, November 2025 to October 2026).

Counts updated 2 Nov 2026, with data through October 31, 2026.