mausam

Beautiful weather in your terminal.

Features

• True color gradients and Nerd Font weather icons
• Context-aware icon colors (day/night/rain/snow/thunder/fog)
• Current conditions with feels-like, clothing hint, UV index
• Moon phase display with moonrise/moonset times
• Sunrise/sunset with daylight duration
• Wind speed with compass direction, visibility, dew point
• 7-day forecast with temperature range bars
• 24-hour detailed forecast with sunrise-aware day/night icons
• Hourly sparkline charts with rain probability
• Air quality index (AQI) with PM2.5/PM10 breakdown
• Weather alerts display
• Multi-word cities (mausam new york) and city,country (mausam delhi, india)
• Multi-city comparison (mausam london / tokyo / paris)
• Auto-detect location from IP
• JSON output for scripting
• Response caching (15 min TTL)
• Imperial and metric units
• Responsive layout adapts to terminal width
• Shell completions (bash, zsh, fish, powershell)
• NO_COLOR standard compliance
• Interactive first-run setup
• Cross-platform (Linux, macOS, Windows)

Install

From crates.io

cargo install mausam

Homebrew

brew tap codeptor/tap
brew install mausam

AUR (Arch Linux)

yay -S mausam

Quick Install (Linux/macOS)

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/codeptor/mausam/master/install.sh | sh

GitHub Releases

Pre-built binaries for Linux, macOS, and Windows are available on the Releases page.

From source

git clone https://github.com/codeptor/mausam.git
cd mausam
cargo install --path .

Setup

On first run, mausam will prompt you for a free WeatherAPI key. Or configure it manually:

mausam --set-key YOUR_API_KEY

You can also set the key via environment variable:

export MAUSAM_API_KEY=YOUR_API_KEY

Usage

mausam                         # Current weather (auto-detect city)
mausam london                  # Weather for London
mausam new york                # Multi-word city names work naturally
mausam delhi, india            # Disambiguate with country
mausam london / tokyo / paris  # Compare multiple cities
mausam -H                      # 24-hour detailed forecast
mausam -a                      # Air quality details
mausam -j                      # JSON output
mausam -r                      # Skip cache, force refresh

Options

  [CITY]...              City name(s) — use / to separate multiple cities
  -H, --hourly           Show hourly forecast
  -a, --aqi              Show air quality details
  -j, --json             Output as JSON
  -r, --refresh          Force refresh, skip cache
      --no-color         Disable colored output
      --set-key <KEY>    Save API key to config
      --set-city <CITY>  Save default city to config
      --units <UNITS>    Set preferred units (metric/imperial)
      --completions <SHELL>  Generate shell completions (bash, zsh, fish, powershell)
      --config           Show current config

Shell Completions

# Bash
mausam --completions bash > ~/.local/share/bash-completion/completions/mausam

# Zsh
mausam --completions zsh > ~/.local/share/zsh/site-functions/_mausam

# Fish
mausam --completions fish > ~/.config/fish/completions/mausam.fish

Configuration

Config is stored at ~/.config/mausam/config.toml (XDG-compliant):

api_key = "your_key_here"
default_city = "New Delhi"
units = "metric"        # or "imperial"
cache_ttl = 900         # seconds (default: 15 min)

View your current config:

mausam --config

Requirements

• A terminal with true color support (most modern terminals)
• A Nerd Font for weather icons
• Free API key from WeatherAPI.com

License

MIT