Retrieve accurate weather information for any location in the world with Laravel and PHP

Want to get instant access to accurate weather data for any geo-point in the world? Let's use weather stack - one of the best services for getting weather information. The great thing is, this service is FREE to use!

What is weatherstack?

weatherstack is a good service that we can use to get years of historical weather data, request real-time weather information or make use of accurate weather forecasts. The service has been used by many popular companies around the world, such as Microsoft, Ericsson, Sneider, etc.

Features

Real-Time, History, Forecast

The API covers global weather data across the board — from a multi-year history all the way to live information and accurate weather forecasts.

Millions of Locations

Make use of live or hour-by-hour weather data for millions of cities and towns worldwide, supporting a variety methods to look up any location.

Rock-Solid Uptime & Speed

Powered by best-in-class cloud infrastructure, our API delivers data in milliseconds around the clock with an uptime of nearly 100%.

Start Free, Upgrade Later

Start testing the API immediately by signing up for the Free Plan. You can always upgrade later — no strings attached, no credit card required.

How to use

Register to get a free API key

You need to go to weatherstack and register to get a free API key.

Using PHP or Laravel

You can use raw PHP to get the weather data:

$location = 'New York';

$queryString = http_build_query([
  'access_key' => 'YOUR_ACCESS_KEY',
  'query' => $location,
]);

$ch = curl_init(sprintf('%s?%s', 'https://api.weatherstack.com/current', $queryString));
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);

$json = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);

$api_result = json_decode($json, true);

echo "Current temperature in $location is {$api_result['current']['temperature']}℃", PHP_EOL;

Documentation

Read the official documentation to learn code examples in different programming languages, all requesting and printing the latest available weather.

Weatherstack documentation