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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.

Daily data is coming in with an offset of about one to seven days. However, some data might be added multiple days or even months later, depending on how the different weather services are updating their datasets. Additionally, Meteostat provides daily aggregates based on hourly observations and model data.

Daily data can be queried for a maximum of 10 years per request.

Endpoint

Daily data is provided through this endpoint:

GET https://meteostat.p.rapidapi.com/stations/daily

Parameters

When calling this endpoint please refer to the following parameters.

ParameterDescriptionTypeRequiredDefault
stationThe weather station IDStringYesundefined
startThe start date of the query (YYYY-MM-DD)StringYesundefined
endThe end date of the query (YYYY-MM-DD)StringYesundefined
modelSubstitute missing records with statistically optimized model dataStringNotrue
freqThe time frequency of the records. Can be used for custom aggregationStringNonull
unitsThe unit system of the meteorological parametersStringNometric

For full specification of available frequencies, defined by the freq parameter, please see here.

The units parameter takes one of the following values:

  • metric (Celsius, Millimeters, Kilometers per hour)
  • imperial (Fahrenheit, Inches, Miles per hour)
  • scientific (Kelvin, Millimeters, Meters per second)

Response

The response body includes the following properties. Please note that all units mentioned below refer to the default units setting.

ParameterDescriptionType
dateThe date string (YYYY-MM-DD)String
tavgThe average air temperature in °CFloat
tminThe minimum air temperature in °CFloat
tmaxThe maximum air temperature in °CFloat
prcpThe daily precipitation total in mmFloat
snowThe maximum snow depth in mmInteger
wdirThe average wind direction in degrees (°)Integer
wspdThe average wind speed in km/hFloat
wpgtThe peak wind gust in km/hFloat
presThe average sea-level air pressure in hPaFloat
tsunThe daily sunshine total in minutes (m)Integer

More information about the data format is available here.

Example

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

curl --request GET \
--url 'https://meteostat.p.rapidapi.com/stations/daily?station=10637&start=2020-01-01&end=2020-01-31' \
--header 'x-rapidapi-host: meteostat.p.rapidapi.com' \
--header 'x-rapidapi-key: {key}'

Please replace {key} with your personal API key.

Data Response

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

{
"date": "2020-02-01",
"tavg": 11.4,
"tmin": 7.8,
"tmax": 12.8,
"prcp": 10.1,
"snow": 0,
"wdir": 210,
"wspd": 22.3,
"wpgt": 126,
"pres": 1009.6,
"tsun": 0
}