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openSenseMap vs weather-api

openSenseMap

openSenseMap is the open, non-profit citizen-science platform behind the University of Munster's senseBox project, serving live and historical readings from thousands of crowdsourced environmental sensor stations worldwide, covering not just temperature/humidity but also particulate matter, noise and other phenomena. Reading data is fully open and keyless (accounts are only needed to register or post data from your own senseBox), and the full historical archive is separately mirrored on an archive subdomain.

weather-api

This is an MIT-licensed Go application that returns current conditions, wind speed, and a three-day forecast as JSON for a city name. The author runs a free public demo at goweather.xyz/v2/weather/{city}. It needs no key and sends open CORS headers. The older /weather/{city} route on that host now returns 404, so use the /v2 path. The repo is not archived, and the last push was in October 2026. You can also build the app and host it yourself.

openSenseMapweather-api
AuthenticationNoneNone
Pricingfreefree
FormatsJSON, GeoJSON, CSVJSON
CORSyesyes
HTTPSYesYes

openSenseMap supports 3 response formats, while weather-api offers fewer — pick openSenseMap for more integration flexibility.

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