Climate Normals

Climate normals are long-term averages of historical weather observations. Usually, these means are calculated over a period of 30 years (“reference period“). However, any other time series of sufficient length can be used to calculate climate normals.

Climate normals represent the typical monthly weather at a given location. The averages can also be used for calculating anomalies of current weather and climate conditions.

Endpoint

Climate normals are provided through this endpoint:

GET https://api.meteostat.net/v2/point/climate

Parameters

In order to query data for any location you’ll need to specify the lat and lon parameters. You will probably also want to add the alt parameter to your request to make the output more precise. If you do not set the alt parameter, Meteostat will detect the elevation using its own elevation model.

Parameter	Description	Type	Required	Default
lat	The latitude of the geographic location	Float	Yes	undefined
lon	The longitude of the geographic location	Float	Yes	undefined
alt	The elevation of the geographic location	Integer	No	0

Response

The response body includes the following properties.

Parameter	Description	Type
month	The integer number of the month (1 to 12)	Integer
tavg	The mean temperature in °C	Float
tmin	The average minimum temperature in °C	Float
tmax	The average maximum temperature in °C	Float
prcp	The average total precipitation in mm	Integer
pres	The average sea-level air pressure in hPa	Float
tsun	The average sunshine duration in hours (h)	Integer

More information about the data format is available here.

Additionally, the meta object includes the start and end year of the climate averages.

Example

The following example requires the cURL command-line interface. Alternatively, you can use an API client like Postman.

curl --header "x-api-key: {key}" "https://api.meteostat.net/v2/point/climate?lat=-33.87&lon=151.21&alt=58"

Please replace {key} with your personal API key.

Data Response

The data output returns one object per hour. Have a look at this example:

{
    "meta": {
        "source": "National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Deutscher Wetterdienst",
        "start": 1961,
        "end": 1990,
        "exec_time": 0.015,
        "generated": "2020-06-14 10:15:40"
    },
    "data": [
        {
            "month": 1,
            "tavg": 0.7,
            "tmin": null,
            "tmax": null,
            "prcp": 43.8,
            "pres": 1018,
            "tsun": 41
        },
        {
            "month": 2,
            "tavg": 1.8,
            "tmin": null,
            "tmax": null,
            "prcp": 39.8,
            "pres": 1017.5,
            "tsun": 75
        },
        {
            "month": 3,
            "tavg": 5.2,
            "tmin": null,
            "tmax": null,
            "prcp": 51.1,
            "pres": 1014.9,
            "tsun": 116
        },
        {
            "month": 4,
            "tavg": 9.2,
            "tmin": null,
            "tmax": null,
            "prcp": 51.5,
            "pres": 1014.2,
            "tsun": 163
        },
        {
            "month": 5,
            "tavg": 13.7,
            "tmin": null,
            "tmax": null,
            "prcp": 61.3,
            "pres": 1014.6,
            "tsun": 207
        },
        {
            "month": 6,
            "tavg": 17.1,
            "tmin": null,
            "tmax": null,
            "prcp": 70.2,
            "pres": 1015.6,
            "tsun": 209
        },
        {
            "month": 7,
            "tavg": 18.9,
            "tmin": null,
            "tmax": null,
            "prcp": 63,
            "pres": 1016.6,
            "tsun": 225
        },
        {
            "month": 8,
            "tavg": 18.3,
            "tmin": null,
            "tmax": null,
            "prcp": 64.8,
            "pres": 1016.1,
            "tsun": 204
        },
        {
            "month": 9,
            "tavg": 14.8,
            "tmin": null,
            "tmax": null,
            "prcp": 48.3,
            "pres": 1018.3,
            "tsun": 158
        },
        {
            "month": 10,
            "tavg": 9.8,
            "tmin": null,
            "tmax": null,
            "prcp": 50.5,
            "pres": 1017.6,
            "tsun": 103
        },
        {
            "month": 11,
            "tavg": 4.7,
            "tmin": null,
            "tmax": null,
            "prcp": 59.4,
            "pres": 1018.3,
            "tsun": 48
        },
        {
            "month": 12,
            "tavg": 1.8,
            "tmin": null,
            "tmax": null,
            "prcp": 54.1,
            "pres": 1016.9,
            "tsun": 39
        }
    ]
}