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NOAA Global Historical Climatology Network — Daily (GHCNd) v3

Integrated database of daily climate summaries from >100,000 land stations in 180 countries: TMAX, TMIN, PRCP, SNOW, SNWD, AWND, observation-time.

Overview

License
U.S. Government public domain
Update frequency
daily
Coverage start
Coverage end
Ongoing
API access
No
Python SDK
No
Geography
Global

U.S. Public Domain

Works produced by employees of the U.S. federal government as part of their official duties are not subject to copyright under U.S. law (17 U.S.C. § 105) and are in the public domain. You may use, copy, modify, and redistribute this data freely without restriction or attribution requirement. Note that copyright protections may vary in jurisdictions outside the United States.

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Schema preview

ColumnTypeDescription
STATIONstring
DATEstring (YYYYMMDD)
ELEMENTstring
DATA_VALUEinteger
M_FLAGstring
Q_FLAGstring
S_FLAGstring
OBS_TIMEstring

About NOAA / NCEI

National Weather and Climate Agency · United States / Global

NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) is the world's largest provider of atmospheric, coastal, geophysical, and oceanic data, with a global observational network that includes the Integrated Surface Database (ISD) and the Global Historical Climatology Network daily (GHCNd). It archives data from weather stations, ships, buoys, radiosondes, and satellites across the globe and publishes freely accessible datasets covering temperature, precipitation, wind, and many other variables. Data is available through bulk FTP, the Climate Data Online portal, and various REST APIs.

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