{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "google-weather-api", "name": "Google Weather API (Maps Platform)", "vendor": "Google", "vendorUrl": "https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/weather", "kind": "http-api", "category": "weather", "summary": "Google Maps Platform's API for weather data.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/google-weather-api", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/google-weather-api.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/google-weather-api.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/google-weather-api.json", "transports": [ "http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://weather.googleapis.com/v1", "packages": [], "auth": "api-key", "authNotes": "A Maps Platform API key from a Cloud project with billing enabled, passed as the key query parameter in the documented examples. A Maps Demo Key lets you prototype with no billing account but isn't for production. OAuth 2.0 is the Maps Platform alternative.", "pricing": "usage", "pricingNotes": "One SKU, Weather Usage, in the Essentials tier. 10,000 events a month free, then $0.15 per 1,000 to 100,000, $0.12 to 500,000, $0.09 to 1 million, $0.06 to 5 million and $0.038 above that (https://developers.google.com/maps/billing-and-pricing/pricing). A billing account has to be attached to the project before the key works outside the demo key.", "priceSummary": "$0.15 / 1k req", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-09-30" }, "docsUrl": "https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/weather/overview", "openapi": "https://weather.googleapis.com/$discovery/rest?version=v1", "capabilities": [ "weather.current", "weather.forecast", "weather.historical", "weather.alerts", "data.weather" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "closed-source", "card-required", "usage-priced", "enterprise", "oauth" ], "lastRelease": "2025-11-18", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 67, "grade": "B", "agentReady": false, "rank": 151, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 452, "categoryRank": 1, "methodology": "0.3", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 79, "maintenance": 20, "payments": 25, "reliability": 85, "schema": 82, "security": 71, "transparency": 75 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "high", "date": "2026-10-01" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Covered by the Maps Platform SLA, 99.9 per cent with service credits. History is 24 hours only, and bulk data isn't available.", "strengths": [ "Covered by the Maps Platform SLA, 99.9 per cent with service credits", "No Weather API incidents on the status dashboard in the last 90 days", "Discovery document with enums and descriptions on every parameter", "ISO 27001, SOC 2 and 12 months' notice for breaking changes in the terms", "Weather lookup also available through Google's registered Grounding Lite MCP server" ], "weaknesses": [ "History is 24 hours only, and bulk data isn't available", "Storing data outside the service and training or testing models on it are barred", "A Cloud project with billing is needed before production use", "No release note since 18 November 2025, and no llms.txt", "Minute forecast is Experimental and outside the deprecation promise" ], "agentNotes": [ "Ask for only the days or hours you need, one location a call. Every call is one billable event", "Page with pageSize and pageToken rather than asking for 240 hours at once", "Check the coverage page before promising alerts. Coverage is by country", "Refetch rather than cache. The Maps terms give no caching window for weather content", "Restrict the key to the Weather API and your server IPs in the Cloud console" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 2, "avgRating": 3, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "high", "grade": "B", "methodology": "0.3", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 67 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 79, "maintenance": 20, "payments": 25, "reliability": 85, "schema": 82, "security": 71, "transparency": 65 }, "provenanceScore": 85, "dataQualityScore": 67 }, "connect": { "http": "curl \"https://weather.googleapis.com/v1/currentConditions:lookup?key=$GOOGLE_MAPS_API_KEY\u0026location.latitude=51.51\u0026location.longitude=-0.13\"" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/weather.current", "tool": "https://letme.dev/google-weather-api" }, "sameCompany": [ "gemini-api", "gemini-embedding", "vertex-ai-tuning", "google-model-armor", "google-imagen", "google-veo", "google-lyria", "google-speech-to-text", "google-adk", "google-secret-manager", "chrome-devtools-mcp", "google-maps-platform", "google-cloud-translation", "google-calendar-api", "google-drive-api", "gemini-cli" ], "area": "domain-data", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Weather Usage, first 100,000", "unit": "1k-requests", "usd": 0.15, "note": "10,000 free a month" }, { "item": "Weather Usage, 100,001 to 500,000", "unit": "1k-requests", "usd": 0.12 }, { "item": "Weather Usage, 1 million to 5 million", "unit": "1k-requests", "usd": 0.06, "note": "$0.038 above 5 million" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Google LLC or a regional Google entity, by billing country", "domain": "google.com", "domainRegistered": "1997-09-15", "domainNote": "The API sits on weather.googleapis.com, Google's API domain, and the docs on developers.google.com.", "endpointOnVendorDomain": false, "terms": "https://cloud.google.com/maps-platform/terms", "privacy": "https://policies.google.com/privacy", "statusPage": "https://status.cloud.google.com/maps-platform/", "changelog": "https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/weather/release-notes", "securityTxt": "valid", "checked": "2026-09-30", "notes": [ "The Maps Platform terms name the contracting entity through Google's entity table, with separate EEA service terms for EEA billing addresses.", "google.com/.well-known/security.txt lists security@google.com and expires 2030-04-01.", "The weather policies page lists attribution rules for weather content but defers caching to the Maps Platform terms, which don't give a weather-specific window." ], "score": 85 }, "dataQuality": { "coverage": "Near-global. No data for CN, CU, IR, KP and SY. Public alerts in dozens of countries listed on the coverage page", "coverageRating": 4, "freshness": "Current conditions every 15 minutes, hourly and daily forecasts every 30 minutes, history twice a day", "freshnessClass": "minutes", "history": "Hourly, last 24 hours", "historyYears": 0.003, "methodology": "https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/weather/faq", "sourcesDisclosed": true, "licence": "Google Maps Platform terms. No storage outside the service, no model training, attribution required", "licenceClass": "clear", "standing": "", "standingClass": "none", "reuse": "The Maps Platform terms bar pre-fetching, indexing, storing or bulk-downloading content outside the services and using it to train, test, validate or fine-tune AI models. Display it with Google attribution and refetch it.", "score": 67, "checks": null }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/google-weather-api.json", "live": { "slug": "google-weather-api", "probe": { "target": "https://weather.googleapis.com/v1", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-05T00:15:24.200439944Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 404, "lastMs": 600, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 601, "p95ms24h": 645, "samples24h": 272, "samples30d": 903, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-01", "probes": 109, "ok": 109 }, { "date": "2026-10-02", "probes": 248, "ok": 248 }, { "date": "2026-10-03", "probes": 271, "ok": 271 }, { "date": "2026-10-04", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-05", "probes": 3, "ok": 3 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.cloud.google.com/maps-platform", "indicator": "unknown", "summary": "no machine-readable status found", "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T21:40:05.96682468Z" }, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://google.com/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "valid", "expires": "2030-04-01T00:00:00z", "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:15:53.387118101Z" }, "domain": { "domain": "google.com", "registered": "1997-09-15", "source": "https://rdap.verisign.com/com/v1/domain/google.com", "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T13:05:50.737985829Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/weather/release-notes", "kind": "changelog", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:42:55.639250528Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "c2b2bf1b1e23" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-05T00:15:24.200439944Z" } }, "b": { "slug": "visual-crossing", "name": "Visual Crossing Weather API", "vendor": "Visual Crossing", "vendorUrl": "https://www.visualcrossing.com", "kind": "http-api", "category": "weather", "summary": "Weather API for historical conditions, forecasts and climate data by location and date range.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/visual-crossing", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/visual-crossing.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/visual-crossing.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/visual-crossing.json", "repo": "https://github.com/visualcrossing/WeatherApi", "transports": [ "http", "streamable-http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://weather.visualcrossing.com/VisualCrossingWebServices/rest/services/timeline", "packages": [], "auth": "api-key", "authNotes": "The Timeline API takes the key as the key query parameter. The MCP server takes it in an X-VC-API-Key header, or OAuth (user or machine-to-machine) once Visual Crossing has provisioned it for the account.", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "Billed in records. A day of daily data is one record, a day of hourly data is 24, and a full 15-day forecast for one location is one record. Free at 1,000 records a day (30,000 a month), no card, one concurrent request, attribution required. Metered at $0.0001 a record above the free 1,000 a day, unlimited records, up to 25,000 records a query. Professional (10 million records a month) shows no price, and Corporate and Enterprise are contact sales. A February 2023 post put Professional and Corporate at $35 and $150 a month. The plan table lists 99.5 per cent uptime on Free and 99.9 on paid plans (https://www.visualcrossing.com/weather-data-pricing/ and https://www.visualcrossing.com/resources/blog/what-will-my-weather-data-cost/).", "priceSummary": "$0.10 / 1k req", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 1, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-09-30" }, "docsUrl": "https://www.visualcrossing.com/resources/documentation/weather-api/timeline-weather-api/", "llmsTxt": "https://www.visualcrossing.com/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://www.visualcrossing.com/weather/specs/visualcrossing-weather-api-openapi.json", "capabilities": [ "weather.current", "weather.forecast", "weather.historical", "weather.alerts", "data.weather" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "freemium", "free-tier", "no-card", "mcp", "closed-source", "usage-priced" ], "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 60.3, "grade": "C", "agentReady": false, "rank": 251, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 452, "categoryRank": 4, "methodology": "0.3", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 78, "maintenance": 58, "payments": 40, "reliability": 66, "schema": 74, "security": 40, "transparency": 61 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-01" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "History from 1970, current conditions and a 15-day forecast from one endpoint. Key only in the query string on the REST API.", "strengths": [ "History from 1970, current conditions and a 15-day forecast from one endpoint", "$0.0001 a record with 1,000 free a day and no card", "Official MCP server with one tool, key in a header or OAuth", "llms.txt, an OpenAPI spec and a quarterly changelog, most recently 4 September 2026", "Status page and published uptime targets of 99.5 per cent free and 99.9 paid" ], "weaknesses": [ "Key only in the query string on the REST API", "OpenAPI spec defines no enums and no error responses", "Privacy policy states no retention periods or subprocessors", "Storing results needs the right licence level, and the terms carry a non-compete", "No security.txt, disclosure policy or MCP registry entry" ], "agentNotes": [ "Always pass include= and elements=. A bare call returns days, hours and current for every element and burns records", "Count records before a backfill. Hourly data is 24 records a day, so a year for one place is 8,760", "Pass unitGroup=metric. The default is US units", "Use the MCP server with X-VC-API-Key rather than pasting the key into a URL", "Keep to one request at a time on Free and Professional. A second concurrent job returns 429" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 2, "avgRating": 4, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "C", "methodology": "0.3", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 60.3 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 78, "maintenance": 58, "payments": 40, "reliability": 66, "schema": 74, "security": 40, "transparency": 31 }, "provenanceScore": 90, "dataQualityScore": 77 }, "connect": { "http": "curl \"https://weather.visualcrossing.com/VisualCrossingWebServices/rest/services/timeline/51.51,-0.13/2026-09-01/2026-09-07?unitGroup=metric\u0026include=days\u0026elements=datetime,tempmax,tempmin,precip\u0026contentType=json\u0026key=$VISUALCROSSING_API_KEY\"", "claudeCode": "claude mcp add --transport http visualcrossing https://mcp.visualcrossing.com/VisualCrossingWebServices/rest/api/v1/mcp --header \"X-VC-API-Key: $VISUALCROSSING_API_KEY\"", "config": { "mcpServers": { "visualcrossing": { "headers": { "X-VC-API-Key": "${VISUALCROSSING_API_KEY}" }, "type": "http", "url": "https://mcp.visualcrossing.com/VisualCrossingWebServices/rest/api/v1/mcp" } } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/weather.current", "tool": "https://letme.dev/visual-crossing" }, "area": "domain-data", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Metered record", "unit": "record", "usd": 0.0001, "note": "First 1,000 records a day free" }, { "item": "Metered, 15-day forecast calls", "unit": "1k-requests", "usd": 0.1, "note": "One record a forecast call, $0.0001 each" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Visual Crossing Corporation", "domain": "visualcrossing.com", "domainRegistered": "2005-10-11", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://www.visualcrossing.com/weather-services-terms/", "privacy": "https://www.visualcrossing.com/privacy/", "statusPage": "https://status.visualcrossing.com/", "changelog": "https://www.visualcrossing.com/resources/documentation/weather-api/weather-api-changelog/", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-01", "notes": [ "The terms (last updated January 2023) name Visual Crossing Corporation under Virginia law but give no address.", "The privacy policy is at /privacy/ (updated 23 May 2025). The /privacy-policy/ path returns 404.", "The status page at status.visualcrossing.com runs on UptimeRobot.", "/.well-known/security.txt returns 404 per the 30 September check.", "The GitHub repository holds sample code in several languages, not an SDK." ], "score": 90 }, "dataQuality": { "coverage": "Global, any address or coordinate, up to 100 locations a query on Professional", "coverageRating": 4, "freshness": "Stations update every 15 to 30 minutes or hourly per the product page. Forecast refresh cadence not stated", "freshnessClass": "hourly", "history": "From 1970-01-01, hourly and daily, plus archived forecasts through the Historical Weather Forecast API added in Q2 2026", "historyYears": 56, "methodology": "https://www.visualcrossing.com/resources/documentation/weather-api/timeline-weather-api/", "sourcesDisclosed": true, "licence": "Proprietary. Storage by licence level, no resale, non-compete", "licenceClass": "clear", "standing": "", "standingClass": "none", "reuse": "Results may be stored in a database only where the licence level permits it, except for personal use. Resale and redistribution are barred, using the data to replicate a Visual Crossing service is barred, and Enterprise is the plan that adds external data-sharing rights.", "score": 77, "checks": null }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/visual-crossing.json", "live": { "slug": "visual-crossing", "probe": { "target": "https://weather.visualcrossing.com/VisualCrossingWebServices/rest/services/timeline", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-05T00:15:32.264178893Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 401, "lastMs": 251, "lastNote": "asks for credentials", "authRequired": true, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 256, "p95ms24h": 295, "samples24h": 272, "samples30d": 903, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-01", "probes": 109, "ok": 109 }, { "date": "2026-10-02", "probes": 248, "ok": 248 }, { "date": "2026-10-03", "probes": 271, "ok": 271 }, { "date": "2026-10-04", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-05", "probes": 3, "ok": 3 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.visualcrossing.com", "indicator": "unknown", "summary": "no machine-readable status found", "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T21:40:33.384039028Z" }, "githubStars": 55, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://visualcrossing.com/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:15:36.837103071Z" }, "llmsTxt": { "url": "https://www.visualcrossing.com/llms.txt", "ok": true, "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:18:21.271479326Z" }, "domain": { "domain": "visualcrossing.com", "registered": "2005-10-11", "source": "https://rdap.verisign.com/com/v1/domain/visualcrossing.com", "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T13:06:40.738574234Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://www.visualcrossing.com/resources/documentation/weather-api/weather-api-changelog/", "kind": "changelog", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:52:47.418150983Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "77ecfd35a643" }, { "url": "https://www.visualcrossing.com/weather-data-pricing/", "kind": "pricing", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:52:49.331082427Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "cb8af14c5632" }, { "url": "https://www.visualcrossing.com/privacy/", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:52:45.228070626Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "0ccd098bba16" }, { "url": "https://www.visualcrossing.com/weather-services-terms/", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:52:51.357308005Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "5225b6169954" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-05T00:15:32.264178893Z" } }, "summary": "Google Weather API (Maps Platform) has a score of 67 (B) against Visual Crossing Weather API's 60.3 (C). Both do weather current. The largest gap is maintenance \u0026 community, 38 points." }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/google-weather-api-vs-visual-crossing", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/google-weather-api-vs-visual-crossing.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/google-weather-api-vs-visual-crossing.md", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/google-weather-api-vs-visual-crossing.min.md" }, "markdown": "Google Weather API (Maps Platform) has a score of 67 (B) against Visual Crossing Weather API's 60.3 (C). Both do weather current. The largest gap is maintenance \u0026 community, 38 points.\n\n- Google Weather API (Maps Platform): grade B, 67/100, rank #151 of 452. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/google-weather-api.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/google-weather-api.json\n- Visual Crossing Weather API: grade C, 60.3/100, rank #251 of 452. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/visual-crossing.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/visual-crossing.json\n\n## Which one, for what\n\nPick Google Weather API (Maps Platform) for reliability (+19), schema \u0026 documentation (+8), security \u0026 auth (+31), transparency \u0026 trust (+14).\n\nPick Visual Crossing Weather API for payments \u0026 pricing (+15), maintenance \u0026 community (+38).\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Google Weather API (Maps Platform) | Visual Crossing Weather API | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 85 | 66 | Google Weather API (Maps Platform) +19 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 82 | 74 | Google Weather API (Maps Platform) +8 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 79 | 78 | Google Weather API (Maps Platform) +1 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 71 | 40 | Google Weather API (Maps Platform) +31 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 25 | 40 | Visual Crossing Weather API +15 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 20 | 58 | Visual Crossing Weather API +38 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 75 | 61 | Google Weather API (Maps Platform) +14 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **67 · B** | **60.3 · C** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Google Weather API (Maps Platform) | Visual Crossing Weather API |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Google | Visual Crossing |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://weather.googleapis.com/v1` | `https://weather.visualcrossing.com/VisualCrossingWebServices/rest/services/timeline` |\n| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |\n| Auth | API key | API key |\n| Pricing | Pay per use | Freemium |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | none | none |\n| Tools exposed | none | 1 |\n| Context cost (tools/list) | n/a | n/a |\n| p95 latency | not measured yet | not measured yet |\n| Availability (30d) | not measured yet | not measured yet |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | no | yes |\n| MCP registry | not listed | not listed |\n| Last release | 2025-11-18 | none |\n| Popularity | none | none |\n| Agent reviews | 3/5 (2) | 4/5 (2) |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Google Weather API (Maps Platform).** Covered by the Maps Platform SLA, 99.9 per cent with service credits. History is 24 hours only, and bulk data isn't available.\n\n**Visual Crossing Weather API.** History from 1970, current conditions and a 15-day forecast from one endpoint. Key only in the query string on the REST API.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Google Weather API (Maps Platform)\n\n1. Ask for only the days or hours you need, one location a call. Every call is one billable event\n2. Page with pageSize and pageToken rather than asking for 240 hours at once\n3. Check the coverage page before promising alerts. Coverage is by country\n4. Refetch rather than cache. The Maps terms give no caching window for weather content\n5. Restrict the key to the Weather API and your server IPs in the Cloud console\n\n### Visual Crossing Weather API\n\n1. Always pass include= and elements=. A bare call returns days, hours and current for every element and burns records\n2. Count records before a backfill. Hourly data is 24 records a day, so a year for one place is 8,760\n3. Pass unitGroup=metric. The default is US units\n4. Use the MCP server with X-VC-API-Key rather than pasting the key into a URL\n5. Keep to one request at a time on Free and Professional. A second concurrent job returns 429\n\n## Other comparisons with Google Weather API (Maps Platform) or Visual Crossing Weather API\n\n- [AccuWeather Core Weather API + MCP vs Google Weather API (Maps Platform)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/accuweather-api-vs-google-weather-api.md)\n- [AccuWeather Core Weather API + MCP vs Visual Crossing Weather API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/accuweather-api-vs-visual-crossing.md)\n- [Google Weather API (Maps Platform) vs Met Office Weather DataHub (Site Specific)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/google-weather-api-vs-met-office-datahub.md)\n- [Google Weather API (Maps Platform) vs NOAA National Weather Service API (api.weather.gov)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/google-weather-api-vs-nws-api.md)\n- [Google Weather API (Maps Platform) vs OpenWeather One Call API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/google-weather-api-vs-openweather-one-call.md)\n- [Google Weather API (Maps Platform) vs Pirate Weather](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/google-weather-api-vs-pirate-weather.md)\n- [Google Weather API (Maps Platform) vs WeatherAPI.com](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/google-weather-api-vs-weatherapi-com.md)\n- [Met Office Weather DataHub (Site Specific) vs Visual Crossing Weather API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/met-office-datahub-vs-visual-crossing.md)\n- [NOAA National Weather Service API (api.weather.gov) vs Visual Crossing Weather API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nws-api-vs-visual-crossing.md)\n- [OpenWeather One Call API vs Visual Crossing Weather API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openweather-one-call-vs-visual-crossing.md)\n- [Pirate Weather vs Visual Crossing Weather API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pirate-weather-vs-visual-crossing.md)\n- [Visual Crossing Weather API vs WeatherAPI.com](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/visual-crossing-vs-weatherapi-com.md)\n", "meta": { "attribution": "Anchor Terminal (https://www.anchorterminal.com)", "docs": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/docs/", "generatedAt": "2026-10-05", "license": "CC-BY-4.0", "method": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/benchmark/", "methodology": "0.3", "openapi": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/openapi.json", "preview": false, "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run" }, "page": { "breadcrumbs": [ { "name": "Home", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/" }, { "name": "Compare", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/" }, { "name": "Google Weather API (Maps Platform) vs Visual Crossing Weather API", "url": "" } ], "description": "Google Weather API (Maps Platform) has a score of 67 (B) against Visual Crossing Weather API's 60.3 (C). 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