Two free Weather APIs compared on access, reliability and developer ratings, using data from our daily health checks.
| AccuWeather API | WeatherAPI | |
|---|---|---|
| What it does | Your gateway to the world’s most accurate, hyper-local, and globally trusted weather data. | Weather API with other stuff like Astronomy and Geolocation API. |
| Provider | AccuWeather APIs | WeatherAPI.com |
| API key | Required | Required |
| HTTPS | No | Yes |
| CORS (browser calls) | Unknown | Yes |
| Status today | Online · 508 ms | Online · 621 ms |
| Uptime (30 days) | Up | Up |
| Developer rating | Not rated yet | Not rated yet |
| Price | Free / free tier | Free / free tier |
Your gateway to the world’s most accurate, hyper-local, and globally trusted weather data.
Your gateway to the world’s most accurate, hyper-local, and globally trusted weather data. Whether you're building a mobile app, web platform, or IoT solution, our APIs empower you to deliver timely and relevant weather intelligence that keeps users informed, engaged, and prepared.
WeatherAPIWeather API with other stuff like Astronomy and Geolocation API.
Free weather API: 100,000 calls a month. Realtime, 14-day and 15-min forecast, history from 2010, marine, air quality, pollen, alerts and solar data in JSON/XML.
Strengths
Both require authentication (apiKey and apiKey).
WeatherAPI supports CORS, so front-end JavaScript can call it directly. Call the other from a server.
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