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How to get the weather in your Windows terminal with one command

Published 23 October 2026

A dark Windows PowerShell window showing the curl.exe wttr.in command and the weather drawn as text art

Short answerRun curl.exe wttr.in in PowerShell for today's weather as text art. Use curl.exe, not curl, because in Windows PowerShell 5.1 curl is an alias for Invoke-WebRequest. Add a city after the slash, or run curl.exe wttr.in/Moon for the moon phase.

wttr.in is a free weather service made for terminals, and Windows 10 and 11 include curl.exe, so this works with nothing to install. Open PowerShell and type:

PowerShell

curl.exe wttr.in

You get today's weather as text art plus a three-day forecast.

Why `curl.exe` and not `curl`?

In Windows PowerShell 5.1, plain curl is an alias for Invoke-WebRequest, a different command that behaves differently. Typing curl.exe runs the real curl program. On a Mac or Linux, drop the .exe.

One clean line

If you only want the facts:

PowerShell

curl.exe "wttr.in/?format=%l:+%C+%t,+feels+%f,+rain+%p"

Example output

Your City: Partly cloudy +24°C, feels +26°C, rain 0.0mm

The codes: %l place, %C condition, %t temperature, %f feels like, %p rain. Use + for spaces.

Pick a place

Put a city after the slash:

PowerShell

curl.exe wttr.in/Paris

Spaces become +, as in wttr.in/New+York. You can also use a three-letter airport code. Add ?0 for today only, ?m for metric units or ?u for US units.

The hidden extra

PowerShell

curl.exe wttr.in/Moon

That draws today's moon phase. Every option is listed by:

PowerShell

curl.exe wttr.in/:help

Good to know

It needs an internet connection and depends on a free third-party site, which can be slow or down.
With no city, it guesses your location from your internet address. Type a city if you prefer not to.
It is a nice thing to put in a small script, so your morning terminal shows the weather first.