For over a decade, Meteotemplate gave ~8,500 weather stations a free, elegant home online. WS40 takes over where it left off — a maintained, improved successor that imports your Meteotemplate data natively. Your station doesn't miss a beat.
The most honest demo isn't a screenshot — it's a real station.
A real WS40 station publishing live data — gauges, a dashboard console, charts and history — exactly what your page could look like.
Open the live station →
The pieces you built your page from have a direct counterpart in WS40.
| In Meteotemplate | In WS40 |
|---|---|
| Gauges page | Gauge blocks ✓ |
| Live / current conditions | Dashboard Console + live data blocks ✓ |
| Charts & history | Chart templates + history archive ✓ |
| Webcam plugin | Webcam: local, remote & rolling cam ✓ |
| Forecast block | Forecast block (Open-Meteo) ✓ |
| Weather alerts | MeteoAlarm alerts, 37 EU countries ✓ |
| Reports / NOAA page | Weather reports — NOAA monthly and annual ✓ |
About your historical data: the Meteotemplate format is now supported natively. Just export your alldata file: WS40 auto-detects every column — temperature, humidity, wind, pressure, rain, solar and the rest — and maps it to the matching field, with no manual setup. It still imports from Meteobridge, Cumulus and plain CSV too.
Ask in the WS40 community →
You just watched a free project you loved shut down. That's the pattern: no revenue, no safety net — and one day it's gone. WS40 flips it.
You don't want free. You want something still here in five years.
€19.90, once, and WS40 is yours. It keeps working forever, with a year of updates included; renew only if you want the newest features. No subscription, no lock-in, no vanishing act — a fair price that keeps an open project alive and improving.
An excellent successor to Meteotemplate.
“Am I happy with WS40? Absolutely. I especially appreciate the charts and tables — they're genuinely useful. I've migrated my station history, going all the way back to 2006, and I'm buying the plugin.”
Exactly the plugin I needed.
Easy to configure, and the Instructions section helped me set it up in no time. I'm very satisfied.
I moved 14 years of data from Meteotemplate to WS40 — without losing a single record.
When I heard Meteotemplate was closing, I went looking for an alternative. Through a Facebook group I found WS40 — and its developer, Pasqualino, a weather enthusiast like me, already hard at work on the project. I pitched in with test after test, and today it's in great shape. Thank you, Pasqualino!
Your station, your data, your database. WS40 keeps that, and removes the part that wore everyone down.
Readings are stored in your own database and computed locally — the principle Meteotemplate users always valued.
A WordPress plugin with automatic updates — no fatal errors to chase each time your host bumps the PHP version.
Meteobridge, Cumulus and the Davis WeatherLink v2 API work out of the box — the same hardware you run today.
WS40 renders charts with its own visualisation stack — no third-party licence that could force a change later.
The plugin's interface is available in 6 languages: English · Italiano · Deutsch · Français · Español · Português (BR)
No setup needed: open a live WS40 demo with real station data, explore the full dashboard, then try the HUD.
Every dot was someone's weather station — a backyard, a sailing club, a mountain hut — sharing its small piece of sky with the world.
~8,500 stations · 2013–2026 · translated into many languages by its community
One reassurance from that farewell: your sites run on your own servers and databases. They keep working. Nothing disappears overnight.
No — the opposite. The Meteotemplate format is supported natively: export your alldata file and WS40 auto-detects and maps every column for you, with no manual setup. Meteobridge, Cumulus and CSV import too. Gerrit brought his history back to 2006.
There's a free version; Premium is €19.90 one-time, with a 30-day trial and no card. Everything keeps working — you renew only for new updates.
Meteobridge, Cumulus and the Davis WeatherLink v2 API, with Open-Meteo for forecasts — the hardware you already run.
Yes. You install it like any plugin — no FTP, no separate engine, automatic updates.
No. Meteotemplate has closed; this is a tribute by the WS40 developer, who now stewards the domain, citing Meteotemplate as inspiration with the author's kind consent.
Yes — a live trial is open where you can explore the two flagship templates, the Console and the HUD, and take a look inside the plugin's admin panel: weatherstation40.live/freetrial
Look around, compare honestly, and decide what fits you.
30-day free trial — no card required · €19.90 one-time · everything keeps working, renew only for new updates
Yes, other successors exist — some very good. But most cost more and bill you every year. WS40 asks €19.90 once, for a perpetual licence you keep forever — no subscription, no strings. A symbolic price that keeps an open project alive and funds the gear to make it better.
A space for former Meteotemplate users is open in the WS40 community: reconnect, share setups, leave a memory, help each other — just like before.
Join the Meteotemplate veterans →