Open-Meteo
Weather API with open-data forecasts, historical and climate data from all major national weather services.
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Still maintained? Yes: 129 commits in the last 90 days, latest release 1.7.0 (Oct 2026).
Comparisons in Miscellaneous: ChatGPT alternatives, DeepL alternatives.
At a glance
Open-Meteo quick facts
- Health score
- 95/100 GOOD
- Stars
- 6,555
- Last commit
- today (Oct 2026)
- Latest release
- 1.7.0, Oct 2026
- Licence
- AGPL-3.0
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In its own words
The project's README opens: "Open-Meteo is an open-source weather API that offers free access for non-commercial use. No API key is required, so you can start using it immediately."
Why it ranks here
Health score explained
Open-Meteo scores 95/100, #11 of 77 in Miscellaneous: 129 commits in the last 90 days earn 35.0 of 35 points, the latest release (1.7.0, 14 days ago) earns 25.0 of 25, 6,555 stars add 15.3 of 20, an active, unarchived repository keeps 10 and Docker support adds the final 10. That places it in the good band (70 and above). The biggest shortfall is star count, worth 4.7 more points.
Recomputed nightly from the GitHub API. How the score is calculated.
- Commit activity 35.0 / 35
129 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency 25.0 / 25
1.7.0 released 14 days ago
- Stars biggest shortfall 15.3 / 20
6.6k stars on GitHub (logarithmic)
- Not archived 10.0 / 10
Repository is active
- Docker support 10.0 / 10
Docker image or Compose file available
Commit activity
- 129
- Last 90 days
- 380
- Last 12 months
- today
- Last push
Ranked #11 of 77 tools in Miscellaneous by health , between TeslaMate (#10) and WeTTY (#12) .
Details
| Licence | AGPL-3.0 |
| Platforms | Docker |
| Latest release | 1.7.0 · 14 days ago |
| Stars | 6,555 |
| Open issues | 139 |
| Docker | Yes |
| Repository | open-meteo/open-meteo ↗ |
Open-Meteo vs its top 5 alternatives
Active tools that share a category with Open-Meteo (Miscellaneous), scored on the same five terms.
| Tool | Health | Stars | Licence | Last commit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| penpot | 99 | 62k | MPL-2.0 | today |
| Reactive Resume | 99 | 45k | MIT | today |
| Anubis | 98 | 24k | MIT | yesterday |
| Open-Meteo (this tool) | 95 | 6.6k | AGPL-3.0 | today |
| OpenZiti | 85 | 4.5k | Apache-2.0 | yesterday |
| WeeWX | 82 | 1.2k | GPL-3.0 | yesterday |
Open-Meteo: common questions
Is Open-Meteo still maintained?
Open-Meteo had 129 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was today; the latest tagged release, 1.7.0, is from 14 days ago. Repoly recomputes this nightly.
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