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/stations/climate

Parameters

Just add the station’s ID through the station parameter. Please note that not all weather stations provide climate normals.

Parameter	Description	Type	Required	Default
station	The weather station ID	String	Yes	undefined

Response

The data array of the response contains twelve objects, one per month. Each of these objects 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/stations/climate?station=10637"

Please replace {key} with your personal API key.

Data Response

The response should look like that:

{
    "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
        }
    ]
}