The database is updated until: May 31, 2026.

June 2026 - A new API endpoint is now available for accessing ECA&D non-blended station observations on MeteoGate. A demonstration repository with an interactive Jupyter notebook is available here: Demonstration Repository.

May 2026 - E-OBSv33.0e has been released.

March 2026 - A mix-up with station level pressure and sea level pressure has been fixed for Austria in 2021 and for the regions Sicily and Trentino in Italy. Also, the lower bound of the quality check has been updated to 900 hPa (was 600 due a typo in the script)

January 2026 - Included new data and stations from Iceland

September 2025 - Inserted earlier records for sunshine duration for Estonian stations kindly provided by Estonian Environmental Agency.

May 2025 - Updated wind speed series of French stations. Kindly provided by Meteo France.

March 2025 - E-OBSv31.0e has been released

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ECA&D forms the backbone of the climate data node in the Regional Climate Centre (RCC) for WMO Region VI (Europe and the Middle East) since 2010. The data and information products contribute to the Global Framework for Climate Services (GFCS).

Today, ECA&D is receiving data from 89 participants for 65 countries and the ECA dataset contains 106299 series of observations for 13 elements at 25841 meteorological stations throughout Europe and the Mediterranean (see Daily data > Data dictionary). 85% of these daily series can be downloaded from this website for non-commercial research and education. Participation to ECA&D is open to anyone maintaining daily station data. If you want to join please contact us. See our data policy for more details.

E-OBS version 33.0e has been released. E-OBS is a daily gridded observational dataset for precipitation, temperature, sea level pressure, relative humidity, wind speed and global radiation in Europe based on ECA&D information. The full dataset covers the period 1950-01-01 until 2025-12-31. It has originally been developed and updated as parts of the ENSEMBLES (EU-FP6), EURO4M (EU-FP7) and UERRA (EU-FP7) projects. Currently it is maintained and elaborated as part of the Copernicus Climate Change Services.

A new API endpoint is now available for accessing ECA&D non-blended station observations on MeteoGate. Users can explore station metadata, retrieve time series, query observations by location, and download data in NetCDF or JSON formats. A demonstration repository with an interactive Jupyter notebook is available here: Demonstration Repository. Support for the blended dataset is planned and will follow.

ECA&D has close links with the projects and initiatives below.

EUSTACE   INDECIS   Copernicus/C3S   Meteoalarm   International Surface Temperature Initiative   UERRA   EURO4M   ENSEMBLES   MILLENNIUM   ACRE   ETCCDI   EEA   AOPC   EUPORIAS   CHARMe   RODEO  

Joint research projects exist between ECA&D and the following institutes or initiatives

MEDARE Initiative   ETH   JRC   SMHI  

ECA&D Project Team
Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI)

P.O. Box 201
3730 AE De Bilt
The Netherlands
e-mail: eca@knmi.nl