# Climate Normals
Essentially, climate normals are a summary of the typical weather over a period of 30 years. This endpoint provides one GZ compressed CSV file per weather station which contains all available reference periods for the respective weather station.
# Endpoint
https://bulk.meteostat.net/v2/normals/{station}.csv.gz
Please replace {station}
with the ID of a weather station.
Weather stations are identified using their Meteostat ID, which equals the WMO ID for weather stations which are part of the WMO index.
# Structure
CSV files provided through the Meteostat bulk data interface use commas as separators. Each file provides the following columns:
Order | Parameter | Description | Type |
---|---|---|---|
1 | start | The first year (YYYY) of the period | Integer |
1 | end | The last year (YYYY) of the period | Integer |
2 | month | The month | Integer |
4 | tmin | The average daily minimum air temperature in °C | Float |
5 | tmax | The average daily maximum air temperature in °C | Float |
6 | prcp | The monthly precipitation total in mm | Float |
9 | wspd | The average wind speed in km/h | Float |
11 | pres | The average sea-level air pressure in hPa | Float |
12 | tsun | The monthly sunshine total in minutes (m) | Integer |
More information about the data format is available here.