meteostat.Stations.inventory

Filter weather stations by data availability.

Parameters

The granularity specifies whether you refer to daily or hourly data. The required parameter can be set to one of the following:

• True if you want to filter for weather stations which provided data at any time in the past
• Any datetime if you only want weather stations which provided data on a certain date
• A tuple or list which holds two datetime items that define a period of time

Parameter	Description	Type	Default
granularity	The granularity, can be 'hourly' or 'daily'	String	undefined
required	Require general availability, a certain date or period	String, Tuple or List	undefined

Returns

Stations class instance

Example

Get closest weather station to Mannheim which did report daily data on January 1, 2020.

from datetime import datetime
from meteostat import Stations

stations = Stations()
stations = stations.nearby(49.4967, 8.4795)
stations = stations.inventory('daily', datetime(2020, 1, 1))
station = stations.fetch(1)

print(station)