Weather Stations

Meteostat provides an open list of weather stations including inventory data.

Endpoints

A JSON file containing all weather stations available at Meteostat, including inventory information and meta data, can be downloaded from this URL:

https://bulk.meteostat.net/v2/stations/full.json.gz

A lite version of this dump file, containing only weather stations which did report data to Meteostat at any point in the past, is available here:

https://bulk.meteostat.net/v2/stations/lite.json.gz

Properties

Both the lite and the regular dump are equally structured. Each object represents a weather station and has the following properties:

• id: Meteostat ID (String)
• name: Name in different languages (Object)
• country: ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code, e.g. CA for Canada (String)
• region: ISO 3166-2 state or region code, e.g. TX for Texas (String)
• identifiers: Identifiers (Object)
  • national: National ID (String)
  • wmo: WMO ID (String)
  • icao: ICAO ID (String)
  • iata: IATA ID (String)
• location: Geographic location (Object)
  • latitude: Latitude (Float)
  • longitude: Longitude (Float)
  • elevation: Elevation in meters (Integer)
• timezone: Time zone (String)
• history: Previous locations, identifiers or names (Array)
• inventory: Available data by frequency (Object)
  • hourly: Hourly inventory data (Object)
    • start: First day (YYYY-MM-DD) of hourly data (String)
    • end: Last day (YYYY-MM-DD) of hourly data (String)
  • daily: Daily inventory data (Object)
    • start: First day (YYYY-MM-DD) of daily data (String)
    • end: Last day (YYYY-MM-DD) of daily data (String)
  • monthly: Monthly inventory data (Object)
    • start: First year (YYYY) of monthly data (String)
    • end: Last year (YYYY) of monthly data (String)
  • normals: Climate normals inventory data (Object)
    • start: First year (YYYY) of climate normals data (String)
    • end: Last year (YYYY) of climate normals data (String)

Contributing

The directory of weather stations is maintained by Meteostat and voluntary contributors on GitHub (opens new window). If you want to add a new weather station, update some information or correct an error, please either correct/update the affected file(s) & create a pull request or fill an issue & describe your concern.