{"rid":"data-apis/meteostat","card":{"rid":"data-apis/meteostat","eid":"meteostat","topic":"data-apis","slug":"meteostat","provider":"Meteostat","url":"https://dev.meteostat.net/data","domain":"meteostat.net","category":"weather data dumps","tier":"free","verdict":"qualifies","vorder":0,"grp":"usable","self_hosted":0,"confidence":"measured","binding":"none","identity_kind":"anonymous","identity_basis":"stated","needs_card":0,"needs_phone":0,"needs_id":0,"needs_institution":0,"country":null,"crypto":null,"interfaces":"rest","egress_metered":0,"per_object_bytes":null,"retention_days":null,"verified_at":"2026-11-03T00:38:41.081Z","verified_basis":"live","checked_on":"2026-11-03","stale_on":"2027-01-03","n_evidence":26,"usd_month":null,"usd_per_tb_month":null,"summary":"Bulk Parquet files across all weather stations (hourly and daily as one file per year, monthly as a single file) and full per-station CSV time series, with n...","duplicate_of":null,"n_unknown":5,"free_unit":"mixed"},"record":{"topic":"data-apis","slug":"meteostat","provider":"Meteostat","url":"https://dev.meteostat.net/data","category":"weather data dumps","tier":"free","free_tier":{"stated":"Bulk Parquet files across all weather stations (hourly and daily as one file per year, monthly as a single file) and full per-station CSV time series, with no key and no sign-up; no quota is published.","unit":"mixed","metered_on":"unstated","source_url":"https://dev.meteostat.net/data/bulk","read_on":"2026-10-31","notes":"The 2024 hourly file for all stations declares 992,333,139 bytes; the 2024 hourly CSV for station 10637 downloaded at 133,686 bytes. 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