weather.baby

07 Jun, 2026

I got tired of Weather Underground loading slowly and being bombarded by advertisements looking for basic weather data... so I wrote my own.

weather.baby is my minimalist weather website with no ads, no cookies, and no tracking. It launched on February 2021.

FEATURES

• Current conditions:
  • temperature
  • wind
  • humidity
  • rain chance
  • UV index
  • air quality
• Location resolution with IP2Location or browser geolocation
• Bookmarkable coordinate URLs
  • Latitude/Longitude /37.3797,-122.1375
  • US zip codes /90210
  • IP address lookups /8.8.8.8
• Leaflet map with dragging and click-for-conditions
• Sunrise/Sunset Times
• Fahrenheit/Celsius selected based on browser locale

ALSO

• Dynamic background based on time of day
• World clocks
• Geo info
• Automatic refresh
• Easter egg: Emojis appear on holidays

DATA SOURCES

• Pirate Weather
• WAQI
• IP2Location
• SunCalc.js
• World Cities: KD-tree spatial index over ~150k world cities for nearest-city lookup
• Moon math courtesy of Max

TECH STACK

• Go backend
• Vanilla JavaScript with some jQuery

I deploy 3 instances of the weather.baby container on my Nomad setup with Consul. The container is Alpine Linux with my custom httpd server.

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