How to Put Your Davis Weather Station Online (2026 Guide)

You bought a Davis weather station because you care about accurate local weather. Naturally, the next thing you want is to put that data online, so you can check it from anywhere, share it with your town, embed it on a club or school page, or just keep your own growing record. The question is how, and the honest answer is that there are several routes with very different amounts of effort.

This guide walks through the realistic options for getting a Davis Vantage Pro2, Vantage Vue, or WeatherLink Live station on the web in 2026, roughly in order of how much work each one takes.

What you need before you start

Whatever route you choose, the starting point is the same: your station should already be online in WeatherLink and reporting current conditions. If you can see live data at weatherlink.com, you have everything you need to begin.

Most of the options below also use a free WeatherLink v2 API key, which is the credential that lets other tools read your station's data. If you have not made one yet, see How to Get Your WeatherLink API Key.

Option 1: The free WeatherLink portal

The simplest possible route is the one you already have. Every Davis owner gets a free weatherlink.com account, and it will display your live data with no extra software at all.

• Effort: none. It works out of the box.
• Trade-offs: the layout is fixed, you cannot use your own domain on the free tier, and historic data is limited. Older records roll off over time.

It is a fine place to start, but it is the least flexible and does not feel like your site.

Option 2: Self-hosted software (CumulusMX or WeeWX)

If you enjoy tinkering, free open-source packages like CumulusMX and WeeWX are powerful. They pull data from your station, generate web pages, and support a wide range of customization through skins and templates.

• Effort: high, and ongoing. Both need a computer or Raspberry Pi running 24/7 on your network, plus a separate web host to publish the pages they generate, usually over FTP.
• Trade-offs: if that machine reboots, loses power, or its SD card corrupts, your site stops updating. You are the system administrator now.

These are genuinely excellent tools if running a small server sounds like fun. If it sounds like a chore, read on. We compare them head to head in CumulusMX vs WeeWX.

Option 3: PWS website templates

Template packs such as the Saratoga or Leuven templates give your self-hosted setup a polished look. You upload them to a web host and they display the data arriving from Cumulus or WeeWX.

• Effort: high. They sit on top of Option 2, so you are maintaining the software and the template.
• Trade-offs: they depend on a steady stream of files over FTP and break in frustrating ways, such as a PHP version bump on your host, a stalled upload, or a template that has not been updated in years.

Option 4: Upload to a community network

You can also push your data to a shared network like Weather Underground or PWSWeather, which gives your station a public page on their site.

• Effort: low. It is mostly a matter of registering and entering credentials.
• Trade-offs: it is their page, their design, and their ads, not your own website or domain. If you want something more personal, see Weather Underground Alternatives for 2026.

Option 5: A fully hosted site (the easy path)

The newest approach removes the server and the maintenance entirely. Instead of installing software and renting a web host, you give a hosted service your WeatherLink API key and it builds and runs the website for you.

This is exactly what Pro Weather does:

• Fully hosted. No Raspberry Pi, no FTP, no PHP to maintain.
• Updates automatically every 10 minutes.
• Your data is stored forever, so your charts and records keep growing.
• Your own domain with automatic SSL is included.
• Designed for phones from the very first screen.
• Set up in minutes, not an afternoon.

It does one thing well: turn a Davis WeatherLink station into a beautiful, maintenance-free website. There is nothing to install and no machine to keep running at home.

Which option should you choose?

• Want zero effort and do not mind a basic look? The free WeatherLink portal already works.
• Love running your own server and want total control? CumulusMX or WeeWX, optionally with a PWS template.
• Just want a professional site that stays online with no upkeep? A hosted service like Pro Weather is the fastest route.

For a deeper feature-by-feature comparison of all the software, see Best Weather Station Software for a Personal Website. And if you want the story behind why a hosted option exists at all, read Why I Built Pro Weather.

Get your Davis station online today

If you want your data on the web without becoming a part-time system administrator, the hosted path is the shortest. Connect your WeatherLink key and your site is live in about five minutes. Start your Pro Weather site, or browse the setup guide first.