Hourly Data

This endpoint provides historical hourly observations for a geographic location. Furthermore, gaps in the time series can be filled in with statistically optimized model data. The data provided through this endpoint is aggregated from multiple governmental interfaces.

Hourly observations are coming in with an offset of about two to three hours. However, some data might be added multiple days or even months later, depending on how the different weather services are updating their datasets.

Hourly data can be queried for a maximum of 10 days per request.

Endpoint

Hourly data is provided through this endpoint:

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

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	Data 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`
`start`	The start date of the query (format: YYYY-MM-DD)	String	Yes	`undefined`
`end`	The end date of the query (format: YYYY-MM-DD)	String	Yes	`undefined`
`tz`	The time zone according to the tz database	String	No	`UTC`

Response

The response body includes the following properties.

Parameter	Description	Data Type
`time`	UTC time stamp (format: YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss)	String
`time_local`	Local time stamp (format: YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss); only provided if `tz` is set	String
`temp`	The air temperature in °C	Float
`dwpt`	The dew point in °C	Float
`rhum`	The relative humidity in percent (%)	Integer
`prcp`	The one hour precipitation total in mm	Float
`snow`	The snow depth in mm	Integer
`wdir`	The wind direction in degrees (°)	Integer
`wspd`	The average wind speed in km/h	Float
`wpgt`	The peak wind gust in km/h	Float
`pres`	The sea-level air pressure in hPa	Float
`tsun`	The one hour sunshine total in minutes (m)	Integer
`coco`	The weather condition code	Integer

More information on the data formats and weather condition codes is available here.

Examples

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/hourly?lat=49.4967&lon=8.4795&alt=104&start=2020-01-01&end=2020-01-01&tz=Europe/Berlin"

Please replace {key} with your personal API key.

Data Response

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

{
	"time": "2019-12-31 23:00:00",
	"time_local": "2020-01-01 00:00:00",
	"temp": 1.6,
	"dwpt": 0.1,
	"rhum": 90,
	"prcp": 0,
	"snow": 0,
	"wdir": 300,
	"wspd": 5,
	"wpgt": 10,
	"pres": 1036.4,
	"tsun": 0,
	"coco": 4
}