Weather Stations

A weather station is a location where meteorological data is measured. Most weather stations available via the Meteostat API are operated by governmental organizations like the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Many of these organizations provide public access to the gathered information. Meteostat uses multiple open data interfaces to collect as much weather and climate data as possible.

Nowadays, most stations run fully automized. However, in contrast to computed model data, environmental or technical issues can cause gaps in the data series when relying on observations reported by weather stations. Furthermore, some weather stations may only report a small set of meteorological parameters. Please be aware that some data output might be incomplete.

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Meteostat operates an open directory of weather stations. Learn more about how to contribute to this collection on GitHub.

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📄️ Nearby Stations

This endpoint enables users to find nearby weather stations by geo location. When calling this endpoint, make sure to provide valid geographic coordinates (decimal degrees) using the lat (latitude) and lon (longitude) parameters. The limit parameter allows us to specify the maximum number of weather stations returned by this endpoint.

📄️ Meta Data

This endpoint provides information which describes a specific weather station. The output includes meta data like latitude, longitude and elevation.

📄️ Hourly Data

This endpoint provides historical hourly observations for a particular weather station. 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.

📄️ Daily Data

This endpoint provides historical daily statistics for a particular weather station. The data provided through this endpoint is aggregated from multiple governmental interfaces.

📄️ Monthly Data

This endpoint provides historical monthly statistics for a particular weather station. The data provided through this endpoint is aggregated from multiple governmental interfaces.

📄️ 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.