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OpenWeather plans

lancer73 edited this page Aug 22, 2026 · 1 revision

OpenWeather plans and this integration

This integration deliberately uses only the classic 2.5 collection endpoints:

Endpoint Free Startup
/data/2.5/weather yes yes
/data/2.5/forecast (3-hourly, 5 days) yes yes
/data/2.5/forecast/daily (16 days) no yes
/data/2.5/air_pollution yes yes
/data/2.5/air_pollution/forecast yes yes
Weather Maps 1.0 tiles yes yes
Weather Maps 2.0 tiles no no (Developer and up)

The 16-day daily forecast is the endpoint that requires a paid plan, which is why the config flow validates against it specifically.

One Call API 3.0/4.0 is not used. It is a separate pay-per-call product with its own subscription, not a feature of the Startup plan. The feature rows in the pricing table link to the One Call documentation, which makes it easy to misread as being included. Check your account's billing page rather than the marketing table.

Plans and limits: https://openweathermap.org/full-price

Getting onto the Startup plan by contributing station data

This is how the maintainer of this integration obtained a Startup plan: upload data from your own weather station to OpenWeather for a while, then email info@openweathermap.org and ask.

Our Weather Network Uploader integration can push your Home Assistant weather sensors to OpenWeather along with Weather Underground, WOW-BE, CWOP, PWSWeather and Windy.

Two caveats: this is one person's experience rather than published policy, and OpenWeather is under no obligation to grant it. Upload consistently first — a request backed by a real contribution history is the part that makes the case.

Licensing

All self-service OpenWeather products are provided under the Open Database License (ODbL). Two consequences:

  • Attribution must be visible where the data is shown. Attribution buried in documentation or a legal page does not satisfy this.
  • A derived database that you distribute must be offered under ODbL as well (share-alike).

ODbL covers the data. It does not grant any rights to the OpenWeather name or logo — that is a separate trademark question.

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