Windy · Rate Limits

Windy Rate Limits

Windy enforces per-key daily session/request quotas that differ by product and tier. The Point Forecast and Map Forecast APIs are limited to 500 daily requests/sessions on the free testing tier and 10,000 on Professional (expandable by agreement). The Webcams API is governed by token-secured image URL validity (15 minutes free, 24 hours professional) and listing offset caps (1,000 free, 10,000 professional) rather than a published per-minute rate. Exact per-minute throttling values are not publicly documented.

Windy Rate Limits is the machine-readable rate-limit profile for Windy on the APIs.io network, conforming to the API Commons Rate Limits specification.

It captures 8 rate-limit definitions, measuring requests, sessions, minutes, hours, and offset.

The profile also includes 3 backoff/retry policies defined and response codes documented for throttled.

Tagged areas include Weather, Forecast, Maps, Webcams, and Visualization.

8 Limits Throttle: 429
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Limits

Point Forecast Daily Requests (Testing) api-key
requests
500
Free testing tier daily request cap; returns shuffled data, dev only.
Point Forecast Daily Requests (Professional) api-key
requests
10000
Professional tier daily cap; expandable by agreement.
Map Forecast Daily Sessions (Testing) api-key
sessions
500
Free testing tier daily session cap; GFS only, dev only.
Map Forecast Daily Sessions (Professional) api-key
sessions
10000
Professional tier daily session cap; can be increased by agreement.
Webcams Image URL Validity (Free) api-key
minutes
15
Token-secured image URLs expire after 15 minutes on the free tier.
Webcams Image URL Validity (Professional) api-key
hours
24
Token-secured image URLs expire after 24 hours on Professional.
Webcams Listing Offset (Free) api-key
offset
1000
Maximum pagination offset on the free Webcams tier.
Webcams Listing Offset (Professional) api-key
offset
10000
Maximum pagination offset on the Professional Webcams tier.

Policies

Service-Specific Keys
Keys are not interchangeable across Point Forecast, Map Forecast, and Webcams; each product requires its own key.
Tiered Limits
Daily caps and image-URL validity raise when upgrading from free/testing to Professional, with further increases by agreement.
Token-Secured Imagery
Webcam image URLs are time-limited tokens; clients should re-fetch webcam objects on each page load rather than caching URLs.

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