Open-Meteo Historical Archive API

Base URL

https://archive-api.open-meteo.com/v1/archive

Authentication

No API key required.

Rate limit

Shares the Open-Meteo fair-use policy — roughly 10,000 requests per day.

Pricing

Free including commercial use below the daily limit.

CORS

Not enabled — call it from your server

Official docs

Read the docs

Every request below was executed against the live API on 20 Aug 2026, and the response shown is the real body it returned — not an illustration.

curl 'https://archive-api.open-meteo.com/v1/archive?latitude=52.52&longitude=13.41&start_date=2026-01-01&end_date=2026-01-02&daily=temperature_2m_max'

const res = await fetch("https://archive-api.open-meteo.com/v1/archive?latitude=52.52&longitude=13.41&start_date=2026-01-01&end_date=2026-01-02&daily=temperature_2m_max");
if (!res.ok) throw new Error(`Request failed: ${res.status}`);
const data = await res.json();
console.log(data);

import requests

res = requests.get("https://archive-api.open-meteo.com/v1/archive?latitude=52.52&longitude=13.41&start_date=2026-01-01&end_date=2026-01-02&daily=temperature_2m_max", timeout=20)
res.raise_for_status()
print(res.json())

{
  "latitude": 52.54833,
  "longitude": 13.407822,
  "generationtime_ms": 1.4096498489379883,
  "utc_offset_seconds": 0,
  "timezone": "GMT",
  "timezone_abbreviation": "GMT",
  "elevation": 38.0,
  "daily_units": {
    "time": "iso8601",
    "temperature_2m_max": "°C"
  },
  "daily": {
    "time": [
      "2026-01-01",
      "2026-01-02"
    ],
    "temperature_2m_max": [
      3.0,
      2.5
    ]
  }
}

latitude / longitudenumber

The model grid point used, snapped from your request.

daily.timearray

Dates for each daily value.

daily.temperature_2m_maxarray

Daily maximum temperatures.

hourly.time / hourly.<variable>array

Parallel arrays of timestamps and values.

daily_units / hourly_unitsobject

Units for each variable.

elevationnumber

Elevation of the grid cell.

• Analyse long-term climate trends for a location
• Correlate historical weather with business or agricultural data
• Backfill weather context into analytics
• Research extreme weather events without paying for archive access

If Open-Meteo Historical Archive does not fit, these weather apis cover similar ground. Every one was called before publishing, and each links to its own reference page with a working curl command and the response it returned.