Validate Stations

Check station records in your local repository for errors. Validate selected stations by passing their IDs, or all stations when no IDs are given.

Usage

meteo station validate [ID...] [OPTIONS]

Examples

meteo station validate                        # Validate all stations
meteo station validate 10637                  # Validate one station
meteo station validate 10637 10638 10639      # Validate several stations
meteo station validate --changed              # Validate stations changed on your branch

Checks

Each station is checked for the following:

• The file contains valid JSON and follows the schema
• The id matches the file name and is a valid Meteostat ID
• country is a valid ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code and region a valid ISO 3166-2 subdivision of that country
• latitude is between -90 and 90, longitude between -180 and 180 and elevation is an integer
• timezone is a valid IANA time zone
• No other station uses any of the same identifiers (e.g. WMO or ICAO codes)
• Correct formatting (such as capitalized names, ordered identifiers)

Output

Problems are listed per station. The command exits with code 0 if all stations are valid and 1 if at least one error was found, so it can be used in scripts and CI pipelines:

$ meteo station validate 0A1B2 10637
✗ 0A1B2  location.latitude: 95.2 is out of range (-90 to 90)
✗ 0A1B2  timezone: "Europa/Frankfurt" is not a valid IANA time zone
✗ 0A1B2  name.en: "frankfurt downtown" should be capitalized
✓ 10637

1 of 2 stations invalid (3 errors)

Options

Option	Short	Description
--changed		Only validate stations changed compared to main (requires Git)
--fix		Automatically fix issues where possible (e.g. formatting, mismatched IDs)
--quiet	-q	Only print stations with errors or warnings
--repo		Path to the stations repository (overrides stations_repo)