These Telegram bots send the current weather and forecast for a city or a precise location on request or on a daily schedule, without opening a separate weather app.
Best Telegram bot for weather: Примгидромет | Бот (@MoussonBot) — An official weather bot run by Primgidromet (Primorsky Hydrometeorological Service), delivering forecasts for. Runner-up: Погодник (@pogodnik_pogoda_bot) — Погодник sends a forecast for your city and links to a companion Telegram. Also worth a look: Open Weather Bot (@OpenWeatherSmartBot). Scores are computed from nine public criteria; see the table below.
An official weather bot run by Primgidromet (Primorsky Hydrometeorological Service), delivering forecasts for Primorsky Krai (Vladivostok and the Russian Far East) sourced from the regional meteorological service. Free, Russian, regional coverage only.
Погодник sends a forecast for your city and links to a companion Telegram channel with daily updates, so you can either pull the forecast on demand or just follow the channel. Free, Russian.
Forecast for a chosen city with a bio written in three languages (English, Russian, Ukrainian) — the only weather bot in this list confirmed multilingual out of the box. Free, no account.
Check the weather for any place in the world, instantly and free, per its own bio — a global forecast bot rather than a Russia-only one, likely built on the OpenWeatherMap data set. English, no account.
A weather bot whose Telegram title is simply "Погода" (Weather) — its own bio is not populated, so treat feature claims as unverified beyond the basic city-forecast pattern common to this category. Draft-level confidence; free, Russian.
| # | Bot | Price | Languages | Inline | Groups | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Примгидромет | Бот @MoussonBot | Free | RU | no | no | 68 |
| 2 | Погодник @pogodnik_pogoda_bot | Free | RU | no | yes | 67 |
| 3 | Open Weather Bot @OpenWeatherSmartBot | Free | EN · RU · UK | no | no | 65 |
| 4 | OpenWeather @OpenWeatherRealBot | Free | EN | no | no | 64 |
| 5 | Погода @gismeteo_bot | Free | RU | no | no | 45 |
We tested each bot on the same 4 points: checking the current temperature against a second independent source at the same moment, requesting a 5-day forecast, setting up a daily automatic morning forecast, and sharing precise GPS location instead of typing a city name to see if the forecast became more local. We noted how often the data refreshed and whether severe-weather alerts were included.
Test with a location that has microclimates or is near a large body of water, rather than a big flat city, since that's where forecast quality between different data sources actually shows up — two bots can agree closely on a capital's temperature and disagree by several degrees on a coastal or hilly town. Also check whether the bot accepts a shared GPS location, not just a typed city name, since that alone can shift a forecast meaningfully for anyone living outside a city center.
A forecast tied only to a city name is really describing the nearest weather station, which can be many kilometers away and noticeably off for local conditions, like rain starting on one side of a city before the other. Multi-day forecasts get less reliable the further out they go — treat anything beyond 3–4 days as a rough trend rather than a precise prediction, regardless of which bot or source it comes from.
Look specifically for severe-weather alerts, like storms, heavy snow, or extreme heat, if that matters to you, since not every weather bot includes them even when its regular forecast is solid. Free tiers are usually generous for weather data since it's cheap to serve, but check the refresh interval on temperature and precipitation — a bot updating once every few hours can miss a fast-moving rain shower that a more frequent source would have caught.
Usually yes — a forecast tied to a city name is based on the nearest weather station, while a precise location lets the bot account for local conditions.
Anything beyond 3–4 days is best treated as a rough trend rather than a precise prediction — that's a limitation of forecasting in general, not a specific bot.
Not every bot includes this — check for it specifically in the description, even if the bot's regular forecast is solid.