# Visual Crossing Weather by [Visual Crossing](/organizations/visual-crossing/) - **ID:** `c08f50e4-8285-43a3-be31-7e7042949571` - **JSON API:** /api/v1/catalog/products/c08f50e4-8285-43a3-be31-7e7042949571/ - **Slug:** visual-crossing-weather - **Product website:** https://www.visualcrossing.com/weather-api/ - **Documentation:** https://www.visualcrossing.com/resources/documentation/weather-api/ - **llms.txt:** https://www.visualcrossing.com/llms.txt - **Pricing:** https://www.visualcrossing.com/weather-data-pricing/ - **Organization website:** https://www.visualcrossing.com/ - **Categories:** [Weather Data](/categories/weather-data/) ## Description Weather API for current conditions, forecasts, and historical weather. ## AI-native score: Unrated Available here: [Task-completion verdicts](#jobs-to-be-done) and [Offers](#offers). Coverage measures research breadth across scored fields. Research coverage is 23/100. An AI-native grade requires 40/100. The provisional breakdown below shows the AI-native signals recorded so far. The AI-native score measures agent-readiness and is not a substitute for your own security or vendor-risk review. See [methodology](/methodology/) for how coverage and the grade are computed. | Component | Applies | Raw | Effective weight | Nominal weight | Contribution | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Integration | Yes | 4/10 | 35% | 35% | 14.0 | | Trust | Yes | 0/6 | 30% | 30% | 0.0 | | Portability | Yes | 3/4 | 20% | 20% | 15.0 | | Security | Yes | 0/4 | 15% | 15% | 0.0 | - **Integration signals:** MCP server (+2); SDK / developer kit (+1); Verified llms.txt (+1) - **Portability signals:** Open standards (+1); Standard protocol access (+1); No proprietary-SDK lock-in (+1) ## Trust & Data Policy - **Open standards:** ✓ Yes - **Standard protocol access:** ✓ Yes - **No proprietary-SDK lock-in:** ✓ Yes - **Not yet researched:** WebMCP, Headless signup, Trust center, Multi-factor authentication, Zero data retention, No generative AI training, Hard budget caps, Sandbox environment, Data export, Data import, Documented provider swap, Self-hostable, Open source ## Security & Compliance **Compliance certifications:** Not yet researched. **Access controls:** Not yet researched. ## Capabilities No capabilities listed. ## Jobs To Be Done From cited vendor documentation, each completion verdict says whether an agent can deliver the job's main outcome by and large through this product and which steps still need a person. Scope may limit cases or prerequisites while preserving that outcome. An unknown verdict means the answer is not yet established. - **Check weather for an outing or trip** — Retrieve current conditions and forecasts to choose when and where to travel or spend time outdoors. - Route: API - Completion: Documented complete - Setup needs a human: Unknown - Per-task human step: Unknown - On behalf of a principal: Unknown - Scope: An application with authorized Visual Crossing API access retrieves current conditions and daily or hourly weather forecasts for a supplied location through the Timeline Weather API, to choose when and where to travel or spend time outdoors. Omitting dates returns the next 15 days of forecast data. - Conditions: This assessment uses the account API-key route and the account plan allowances. Human setup and execution requirements and delegated-use policy remain unknown. Vendor documentation currently gives conflicting statements about anonymous no-key access, so that route is not assessed here. ## Offers **Pricing page:** https://www.visualcrossing.com/weather-data-pricing/ ### Free - free: Free; payment unknown; commitment unknown Includes 1,000 weather records per day. Limited to 1,000 records and 5 locations per API query, one concurrent API request and one direct data user. Attribution required. Raw weather data may not be shared publicly for download. https://www.visualcrossing.com/weather-data-pricing/ ### Metered - per-record: 0.0001 USD per weather record; payment unknown; commitment unknown Includes 1,000 weather records per day for free. ## Reviews No approved reviews yet. ## Benchmarks No benchmarks listed. ## Documentation The primary documentation link is at the top of this page. No other documentation links listed. ## API Specs Not yet researched. ## MCP Servers - [Visual Crossing MCP](https://mcp.visualcrossing.com/VisualCrossingWebServices/rest/api/v1/mcp) ## A2A Servers Not yet researched. ## Native Connectors Not yet researched. ## Command-Line Interfaces Not yet researched. ## Developer Kits - [Visual Crossing Python library](https://github.com/visualcrossing/Libraries/tree/main/Python) — Languages: Python ## Agent Skills Not yet researched. ## Related products - [Open-Meteo](/organizations/open-meteo/products/open-meteo/) by Open-Meteo — Tier D. Same job: Check weather for an outing or trip (Finishes end to end). - [WeatherAPI.com](/organizations/weatherapi-com/products/weatherapi-com/) by WeatherAPI.com — Unrated. Same job: Check weather for an outing or trip (Finishes, delegation unknown). ## Add this badge to your site Own this product? The Open Agent Guide badge links your site back to this directory listing. 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