Observation

Overview

“Données climatologiques de base”, covering a much larger network of several thousand stations across metropolitan France and overseas territories, sharded by French department. Station identity, coordinates and start/end dates are sourced from Météo-France’s canonical station metadata registry rather than the (much larger) per-department archives themselves; a small fraction of listed stations may not actually have downloadable daily/monthly records.

• daily: split into a core dataset (precipitation, temperature, wind) and an others dataset (pressure, radiation, humidity, snow) — roughly balanced in size, so neither gets the generic name

• monthly: a single dataset, so it keeps the generic data name

• hourly: also split into core/others, though this split only exists at the wetterdienst level — the source publishes one unsplit file per department/period covering all ~100 parameters

• 6_minutes: a single dataset, covering only precipitation (the only parameter published at this resolution)