Overview

Overview#

This chapter provides an informative overview of the data accessible via the wetterdienst service and the associated usage conditions. wetterdienst facilitates user access to data from various agencies, including the German Weather Service (DWD). While this data is available as open data, users are kindly requested to acknowledge the data source by providing appropriate attribution. We have included links to the respective agencies and their licensing policies for your convenience. Please take a moment to review these resources to ensure that you provide accurate references.

Here’s a quick overview of the data sources currently supported by wetterdienst:

  • DWD (Deutscher Wetterdienst / German Weather Service / Germany)

    • Observation

      • Historical (last ~300 years), recent (500 days to yesterday), now (yesterday up to last hour)

      • Every minute to yearly resolution

      • Time series of stations in Germany

      • see the rdwd pages for an interactive map and table of available datasets

    • Mosmix - statistical optimized scalar forecasts extracted from weather models

      • Point forecast

      • 5400 stations worldwide

      • Both MOSMIX-L and MOSMIX-S is supported

      • Up to 115 parameters

    • DMO - timeseries extracted from weather models

      • Point forecast

      • 5400 stations worldwide

      • Up to 115 parameters

    • Road

      • Historical weather observations of German highway stations

    • SWSMOS

      • road weather forecast (Straßenwetter-MOS) for ~1800 German road weather stations

      • hourly, out to +167 hours; air/dew/road-surface temperature, precipitation, road condition

    • Radar

      • 16 locations in Germany

      • All of Composite, Radolan, Radvor, Sites and Radolan_CDC

      • Radolan: calibrated radar precipitation

      • Radvor: radar precipitation forecast

  • AEMET (Agencia Estatal de Meteorología / State Meteorological Agency / Spain)

    • Observation

      • climatological data from the Spanish station network

      • hourly, daily, monthly and annual resolution

      • requires a free API key from opendata.aemet.es (WD_AUTH__AEMET)

  • CHMI (Český hydrometeorologický ústav / Czech Hydrometeorological Institute / Czechia)

    • Observation

      • observations from the Czech station network

      • 10-minute, hourly, daily, monthly and annual resolution

      • open data, no authentication required

  • DMI (Danmarks Meteorologiske Institut / Danish Meteorological Institute / Denmark)

    • Observation

      • quality-controlled climate data from stations in Denmark, Greenland and the Faroe Islands

      • hourly, daily, monthly and annual resolution

      • ~280 stations; open data, no authentication required

  • EA (Environment Agency)

    • Hydrology

      • data of river network of UK

      • parameters flow and ground water stage

  • Eaufrance

    • Hubeau

      • data of river network of France (continental)

      • parameters flow and stage of rivers of last 30 days

  • ECCC (Environnement et Changement Climatique Canada / Environment and Climate Change Canada / Canada)

    • Historical Weather Observations

      • Historical (last ~180 years)

      • Hourly, daily, monthly, (annual) resolution

      • Time series of stations in Canada

  • FMI (Ilmatieteen laitos / Finnish Meteorological Institute / Finland)

    • Observation

      • observations from the Finnish station network via the open WFS interface

      • hourly and daily resolution

      • open data, no authentication required

  • Geosphere (Geosphere Austria, formerly Central Institution for Meteorology and Geodynamics)

    • Observation

      • historical meteorological data of Austrian stations

  • IMGW (Institute of Meteorology and Water Management)

    • Meteorology

      • meteorological data of polish weather stations

      • daily and monthly summaries

    • Hydrology

      • hydrological data of polish river stations

      • daily and monthly summaries

  • IPMA (Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera / Portuguese Institute for Sea and Atmosphere / Portugal)

    • Observation

      • near-real-time hourly observations from the Portuguese automatic station network

      • ~222 stations; recent only (rolling ~last day, no historical archive)

      • open data, no authentication required

  • KNMI (Koninklijk Nederlands Meteorologisch Instituut / Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute / Netherlands)

    • Observation

      • observations from the Dutch station network

      • 10-minute, hourly and daily resolution

      • requires a free API key from developer.dataplatform.knmi.nl (WD_AUTH__KNMI)

  • LHMT (Lietuvos hidrometeorologijos tarnyba / Lithuanian Hydrometeorological Service / Lithuania)

    • Observation

      • hourly observations from the Lithuanian automatic station network via the api.meteo.lt REST API

      • ~52 stations; historical (back to ~2016)

      • open data, no authentication required

  • Météo-France (French National Meteorological Service / France)

    • Synop

      • SYNOP observations at the native 3-hourly reporting interval

      • ~190 stations across metropolitan France and overseas territories, 1996 to present

    • Observation

      • 6-minute, hourly, daily and monthly climatological summaries (“Données climatologiques de base”)

      • a much larger network of several thousand stations, sharded by French department

  • MeteoSwiss (Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology / Switzerland)

    • Observation

      • historical, recent and now data of the SwissMetNet automatic weather station network

      • 10-minute, hourly, daily, monthly and annual resolution

      • ~158 stations

  • MET Norway (Meteorologisk institutt / Norwegian Meteorological Institute / Norway)

    • Frost

      • Historical and recent observations from Norwegian station network

      • 10-minute, hourly, 6-hourly (historical only), daily, monthly and annual resolution

      • ~2200 stations; requires free API key from frost.met.no

  • Met Office (UK Met Office / United Kingdom)

    • Observation

      • historical UK land surface observations from the MIDAS Open archive on CEDA

      • daily and hourly resolution across eight datasets (rain, temperature, weather, wind, radiation, soil temperature); some stations back to the 19th century

      • annual releases, so the most recent ~6-12 months are not yet available

      • requires a free CEDA account (WD_AUTH__CEDA=<username>:<password>)

  • NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration / United States of America)

    • Global Historical Climatology Network (GHCN)

      • hourly (GHCNh) and daily weather observations from around the globe

      • more than 100k stations

      • data for weather services which don’t publish data themselves

  • NWS (NOAA National Weather Service / United States of America)

    • Observation

      • recent observations (last week) of US weather stations

      • note: the station list is currently sourced from a diverging source and may be incomplete

  • RMI (Koninklijk Meteorologisch Instituut / Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium / Belgium)

    • Observation

      • observations from the automatic weather station (AWS) network in Belgium

      • 10-minute, hourly and daily resolution

      • ~14 stations, back to 1995; open data, no authentication required

  • SMHI (Sveriges meteorologiska och hydrologiska institut / Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute / Sweden)

    • Observation

      • observations from the Swedish station network

      • 1-minute, hourly, daily and monthly resolution

      • open data, no authentication required

  • WSV (Wasserstraßen- und Schifffahrtsverwaltung des Bundes / Federal Waterways and Shipping Administration)

    • Pegelonline

      • data of river network of Germany

      • coverage of last 30 days

      • parameters like stage, runoff and more related to rivers