Meteorological, Hydrological and Oceanographic Database

  • ID:
    sensing-meteo-35
  • Source Organisation:
    MeteoSwiss (Swiss Federal Office for Meteorology and Climatology)
  • Name:
    Open Government Data
  • Type:
    data (format: station data in tables, gridded data in HDF5)
  • Area:
    meteorological data (station observations and numerical weather forecast)
  • Quality:
    depending on product, see documentation for more details
  • Availability:
    Open (starting 1 April 2025)
  • Update frequency:
    5min to daily depending on product category
  • Legal restrictions:
    https://meteoswiss.github.io/opendata-terms-of-use/
  • Description:
    Public access to all data MeteoSwiss produces and/or manages, including monitoring data from a range of automatic and manual station networks, the entire suite of numberical weather predictions products of it's own model instances, and climatological data products. More info: https://www.meteoswiss.admin.ch/services-and-publications/service/open-government-data.html
  • Variable(s):
    a large range of meteorological variables (see documentation for complete list)
  • Spatial coverage:
    Switzerland + buffer
  • Spatial resolution:
    1km for most gridded products
  • Temporal coverage:
    depending on product, see documentation for more details
  • Temporal resolution:
    1 minute to 1 year, depending on product
  • Resource:
    https://github.com/MeteoSwiss/opendata/blob/main/README.md
  • API Protocol:
    https://github.com/MeteoSwiss/opendata-api/blob/main/README.md