WeeWX
Open source software for your weather station.
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Still maintained? Yes: 181 commits in the last 90 days, latest release v5.5.2 (Sep 2026).
Comparisons in Miscellaneous: ChatGPT alternatives, DeepL alternatives.
At a glance
WeeWX quick facts
- Health score
- 82/100 GOOD
- Stars
- 1,207
- Last commit
- yesterday (Oct 2026)
- Latest release
- v5.5.2, Sep 2026
- Licence
- GPL-3.0
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In its own words
The project's README opens: "The WeeWX weather system is written in Python and runs on Linux, MacOSX, Solaris, and *BSD. It runs exceptionally well on a Raspberry Pi. It collects data from many different types of weather stations and sensors, then generates plots, HTML pages, and monthly and yearly summary reports. It can push plots, pages, and reports to a web server, as well as upload weather-related data to many online weather services. Thousands of users worldwide!"
Why it ranks here
Health score explained
WeeWX scores 82/100, #40 of 77 in Miscellaneous: 181 commits in the last 90 days earn 35.0 of 35 points, the latest release (v5.5.2, 1 month ago) earns 25.0 of 25, 1,207 stars add 12.3 of 20, an active, unarchived repository keeps 10 and no advertised Docker image leaves the final 10 unclaimed. That places it in the good band (70 and above). The biggest shortfall is Docker support, worth 10.0 more points.
Recomputed nightly from the GitHub API. How the score is calculated.
- Commit activity 35.0 / 35
181 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency 25.0 / 25
v5.5.2 released 1 month ago
- Stars 12.3 / 20
1.2k stars on GitHub (logarithmic)
- Not archived 10.0 / 10
Repository is active
- Docker support biggest shortfall 0.0 / 10
No Docker support advertised
Commit activity
- 181
- Last 90 days
- 355
- Last 12 months
- yesterday
- Last push
Ranked #40 of 77 tools in Miscellaneous by health , between CUPS (#39) and DOCAT (#41) .
Details
| Licence | GPL-3.0 |
| Platforms | Python, deb |
| Latest release | v5.5.2 · 1 month ago |
| Stars | 1,207 |
| Open issues | 7 |
| Docker | Not advertised |
| Repository | weewx/weewx ↗ |
WeeWX vs its top 5 alternatives
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| Tool | Health | Stars | Licence | Last commit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| penpot | 99 | 62k | MPL-2.0 | today |
| Reactive Resume | 99 | 45k | MIT | today |
| Anubis | 98 | 24k | MIT | yesterday |
| Infisical Community Edition | 98 | 30k | MIT | today |
| Open-Meteo | 95 | 6.6k | AGPL-3.0 | today |
| WeeWX (this tool) | 82 | 1.2k | GPL-3.0 | yesterday |
WeeWX: common questions
Is WeeWX still maintained?
WeeWX had 181 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was yesterday; the latest tagged release, v5.5.2, is from 1 month ago. Repoly recomputes this nightly.