Comparison

Nearest Weather Station vs Dank Weather

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Nearest Weather Station

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Continuously provides a list of nearby ASOS and AWOS weather stations from FAA sources sorted by distance. Once a station is selected, Nearest Weather Station allows you to view the radio frequency and/or phone number (if available). By selecting the phone number, the watch will initiate a phone call to allow you to hear the ASOS or AWOS report on the watch or connected phone. Also allows you to dial in the identifier of a weather station and view the same information Nearest Weather Station provides you in the default GPS location mode. Uses latest data from FAA at time of release. Requires Watch OS version 9.0 or higher.

About

Dank Weather

Get real-time, up-to-the-millisecond weather updates from a global network of weather stations. This app offers hyper-local insights with a user-friendly interface, perfect for planning your day or tracking weather trends.

Highlights
  • Blazing fast data delivery
  • Global weather station network
  • Hyper-local insights
  • User-friendly interface
  • Real-time updates
Features
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Dank Weather shows the weather where it is actually being measured: personal weather stations, airport METAR reports and flood gauges on the DankWeather network, updating live as each reading arrives. Nothing on screen is a forecast. Every number is a real reading from a real sensor, stamped with how long ago it landed. Pick a station and it is on your home screen in seconds: the temperature right now, what it feels like, today's high and low, and a chart of the last 24 hours. Swipe between your favourites. THREE WAYS TO LOOK AT IT • Cards: hero temperature, a labelled 24-hour chart, and a card for each thing the station measures. • Ledger: an instrument panel with one row per reading, a 24-hour trace and a monospaced caption. • Dial: one big instrument with a compass ring, wind pointer, arcs for rain and air quality, and the temperature in the middle. GO DEEPER ON ANY READING Tap a card for its page: Temperature, Humidity, Wind, Rain, Air Quality, Barometer, UV Index and Solar. Each has a chart with a labelled scale for the last day, week, month or year. Drag across it to read any bar. Then the numbers that matter: the peak gust and when it blew, the prevailing wind, rain this event, today and this year, the pressure trend over the last three hours, dew point comfort, UV protection advice, the day's solar energy. Share any page as a text summary with a link to the station. STAYS WITH YOU • Live Activity: follow a station on your Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island. It updates with every reading, not on a schedule. • Widgets: small, medium and large home screen widgets plus Lock Screen widgets for temperature, feels like, humidity, wind, air quality and UV, with a data-age label that keeps counting between refreshes. • Apple Watch: the station on your wrist, with complications for temperature, humidity, wind, rain and air quality. • Stale alerts: a notification when a station you care about stops reporting. FIND STATIONS Search by name, browse airports and flood gauges, or use Near me. The map shows every station in view with its current temperature, rain, air quality or wind, and updates in place. AIR QUALITY YOU CAN TRUST The AQI is computed from the sensor's own PM2.5 concentration using the EPA's 2024 breakpoints, the same table the DankWeather website uses, so the number here is the number there. YOUR UNITS Fahrenheit or Celsius. mph, km/h or knots. Inches or millimetres. inHg, hPa or mbar. Whole degrees or tenths. BUILT FOR IPAD TOO The same app on iPad, with the cards kept phone-sized and centred instead of stretched across the screen. Sign in with your DankWeather account to sync favourites with the website and to see the stations you own, including the provisioning key for adding a new one. No account is needed to use the app. Dank Weather is the companion app for dankweather.com.

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Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Dank Weather at every 5 weeks against Nearest Weather Station's every 3 months. On price, rating, ratings volume and ads there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Nearest Weather Station against 5.0 for Dank Weather. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Nearest Weather Station ships an update every 3 months, Dank Weather every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 21, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
Nearest Weather Station versus Dank Weather: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNearest Weather StationDank Weather
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings)
Number of ratings12 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 5 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhone, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS16.6 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size2 MB7 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJONOTHON CONEDrake Apps

In-app purchases

None

Nearest Weather Station

No in-app purchases

None

Dank Weather

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Nearest Weather Station free?
Nearest Weather Station is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Dank Weather free?
Dank Weather is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Nearest Weather Station or Dank Weather?
Nearest Weather Station and Dank Weather are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 2 ratings respectively.
Do Nearest Weather Station or Dank Weather have ads?
Neither Nearest Weather Station nor Dank Weather shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Nearest Weather Station or Dank Weather?
Nearest Weather Station ships an update every 3 months, and Dank Weather every 5 weeks. Most recently, Nearest Weather Station was updated on October 24, 2026 and Dank Weather on October 21, 2026.

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