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Weather Underground Alternatives for 2026

For years, Weather Underground was the default place to send personal weather station data. You connected your station, got a public page, and your readings joined a giant map of stations around the world. But a lot of owners have been looking for alternatives, whether because of changes to features and pricing, the ads, the cluttered interface, or simply the realization that the page never really felt like theirs.

If that is you, the good news is there are solid options in 2026. This guide covers the main ones, who each suits, and how to think about the choice.

First, what are you actually looking for?

"Alternative to Weather Underground" can mean two quite different things, so it helps to know which you want:

  1. Another community network, where your station joins a shared map and gets a standard public page on someone else's site.
  2. Your own website, with your own design and ideally your own domain, that you control.

Weather Underground is firmly in the first category. If that model works for you and you just want a different network, the first few options below fit. If you have outgrown the shared-page model, skip to the section on having your own site.

Community network alternatives

These are the closest like-for-like swaps. You upload your data and get a public page on their platform.

PWSWeather

PWSWeather, run by AerisWeather (now part of Vaisala Xweather), is one of the most established networks and a common first stop for people leaving Weather Underground. It accepts data from most station software and gives your station a public page on their map. It is a straightforward, no-frills home for your data.

Windy

Windy is best known for its beautiful animated forecast maps, and it accepts personal weather station contributions too. If you love the visual, map-first experience and want your station to appear on it, Windy is appealing. It is more a global visualization platform than a personal-page service.

AWEKAS and CWOP

Two more networks worth knowing. AWEKAS is a popular European weather network with its own station map and statistics. CWOP (the Citizen Weather Observer Program) is a volunteer network that feeds data to meteorological services, valuable if you want your readings to contribute to forecasting and research, though it is not built around a polished public page.

The common thread across all of these: it is their platform, their layout, and often their ads. Your station is one of many on a shared map.

Self-hosted alternatives

If the appeal of leaving Weather Underground is having something that is genuinely yours, you can run your own site with software like CumulusMX or WeeWX, optionally dressed up with a PWS template.

This gives you full control over the look, but it comes with real ongoing work: a computer running 24/7, plus a web host to publish to, usually over FTP. We compare the two main programs in CumulusMX vs WeeWX.

Your own hosted website (the middle ground)

There is a newer option that sits between "join someone else's network" and "run your own server": a fully hosted personal weather site.

This is what Pro Weather does. You give it your Davis WeatherLink API key and it builds and runs a complete website for you. The result is your own site, not a page on a shared platform, but with none of the server maintenance:

  • Your own site and your own domain, with automatic SSL, not a profile on someone else's map.
  • No ads, and a clean design built for phones first.
  • Your data stored forever, so your charts, records, and almanac keep growing.
  • Fully hosted. No Raspberry Pi, no FTP, nothing to install or maintain.
  • Automatic updates every 10 minutes.

The trade-off compared to a network like Weather Underground is that your station is not part of a big shared map by default. The upside is that the website is unmistakably yours. Many owners actually do both: contribute raw data to a network like CWOP for research, and run their own Pro Weather site as their real home on the web.

Which alternative is right for you?

  • Want a direct, free swap for the WU map? Try PWSWeather, or Windy if you love map-based visuals.
  • Want to contribute to forecasting and research? CWOP is purpose-built for that.
  • Want full control and enjoy running a server? Self-host with CumulusMX or WeeWX.
  • Want your own polished website without the upkeep? A hosted service like Pro Weather is the most direct route.

For a full rundown of the software side, see Best Weather Station Software for a Personal Website.

Ready for a site that is actually yours?

If leaving Weather Underground is really about wanting something of your own, Pro Weather turns a Davis station into a beautiful, ad-free website in about five minutes, with your data kept forever. No network, no server, no maintenance.