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Climate data for Germany from DWD Stations

Temperature at DWD stations 9th November 1989.
Temperature annual cycle of Hamburg-Fuhlsbüttel.
Mean 2m air temperature at DWD stations 9th November 1989 (top). Temperature annual cycle of Hamburg-Fuhlsbüttel: 1891-2010 Longterm monthly mean 2m air temperature (TMK) measured by DWD  (bottom). Copyright: UHH/CEN/AJB

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Access

UNRESTRICTED:

RESTRICTED:This link to the data set is only available for a restricted user group.  The data set is only accessible in CEN/MPI net or accessible from external nets with a customer account.  Please contact ICDC if you would like to access this data from outside the network.

  • Data access via file system: /data/icdc/atmosphere/dwd_stations

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Description

The German weather service "Deutscher Wetterdienst" (DWD) provides climate data of more than 70 observational stations in Germany from the monitoring network with free access. The DWD provides daily and monthly values ​​of temperature, precipitation sum, sunshine duration, wind speed, humidity, air pressure and cloud cover, which are updated daily. In addition, the DWD also presents the following data: long-term average values ​​for the period 1961-1990 at all observational stations, time series of field for regional means of temperature, precipitation and sunshine duration for the German federal states, mean phenological seasons, and daily objective weather classifications since 1979.

We offer here the free daily station data ​​of the German Weather Service, visualized in the LAS server, that are updated at irregular intervals of about a month. For visualization, only the units are converted. The geographical coordinates of the current location will be used, even if the station moved over time. The data were measured at the station's height and were not corrected to sea level and not homogenized by ICDC. Such data can be ordered at the DWD via the data service.

Last update of data set at ICDC:

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Parameters

Parameters of DWD station data sets.
NameUnitInformation
Daily mean of air temperature, 2 m above ground (TMK) °C Calculation: until 3/2001 daily with 3 fixed term values, since 4/2001 dailyfrom hourly data (>21 values) or main terms at 00, 06, 12, 18 UTC
Daily minimum of air temperature, 2 m above ground (TNK) °C Measurement: until 3/2001 daily (21:30 CET of previous day - 21:30 CET), since 4/2001 daily (00h - 24h standard time, or UTC at main official stations)
Daily maximum of air temperature, 2 m above ground (TXK) °C Measurement: until 3/2001 daily (21:30 CET d. Vortages - 21:30 CET), since 4/2001 daily (00h - 24h standard time, or UTC at main official stations)
Station height above ground m Station height above ground
Daily mean air pressure at station height (PM) hPa Calculation: until 3/2001 daily with 3 fixed term values, since 4/2001 daily from hourly data (>21 values) or main terms at 00, 06, 12, 18 UTC
Daily mean vapour pressure (VPM) hPa Calculation: until 3/2001 daily with 3 fixed term values, since 4/2001 daily from hourly data (>21 values) or main terms at 00, 06, 12, 18 UTC
Daily mean relative humidity(UPM) % Calculation: until 3/2001 daily with 3 fixed term values, since 4/2001 daily from hourly data (>21 values) or main terms at 00, 06, 12, 18 UTC
Daily mean wind force (FMK) Bft Calculation: until 3/2001 daily with 3 fixed term values, since 4/2001 daily from hourly data (>21 values) or main terms at 00, 06, 12, 18 UTC
Daily mean cloud amount (NM) 1/8 Calculation: until 3/2001 daily with 3 fixed term values, since 4/2001 daily from hourly data (>21 values) or main terms at 00, 06, 12, 18 UTC
Daily sum of sunshine duration (SD) hours Calculation: until 3/2001 daily with 3 fixed term values, since 4/2001 daily from hourly data (>21 values) or main terms at 00, 06, 12, 18 UTC
Daily precipitation height (RS) mm sum of precipitation measured: until 3/2001 between 7:30 - 7:30 CET of next day, since 4/2001 between 6:50 - 06:50 CET of next day
Kind of precipitation (RKF)

Numbers:

  • 0 = no precipitation,
  • 1 = rain (data older than 1979),
  • 4 = precipitation, form unknown,
  • 6 = rain,
  • 7 = snow,
  • 8 = rain and snow,
  • 9 = missing value
 Calculation: Until 3/2001 fixed term values at 21:30 - 7:30, 7:30 - 14:30 and 14:30 - 21:30 CET, since 4/2001 fixed term values at 18:50 - 06:50, 06:50 - 12:50 und 12:50 -18:50 CET
Daily snow depth (SH) cm snow depth and snow cover: until 3/2001 at 7:30 CET since 7:30 CET of previous day, since 4/2001 at 06:50 CET since 06:50 CET of previous day
Kind of snow cover (SA)

Numbers:

  • 0 = no snow,
  • 1 = completely covered,
  • 2 = remains (R), snow cover < 10% and > 0% and no snow height,
  • 3 = broken (D), snow cover < 100% and >= 50%,
  • 4 = patches (F), snow cover < 50% and >= 10%,
  • 9 = missing value
 see daily snow depth
Daily maximum wind speed (peak) (FX) m/s Measurement: daily (00h - 24h standard time, or UTC at main official stations)
Daily water equivalent of total snow cover (WASH) mm The water equivalent is the height of water column of melted snow, measured: until 3/2001 at 7:30 CET, since 4/2001 at 06:50 CET
Data quality (QN) Numbers: 0 - 9 see table at section quality of data

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Coverage, spatial and temporal resolution

Period and temporal resolution: see table

Current position and time period for stations:
Name of StationStation Height (m)LatitudeLongitudePeriod of measurements
Aachen 202 N 50° 47' E 06° 05' 1891 - today
Augsburg 462 N 48° 25' E 10° 56' 1947 - today
Bamberg 239 N 49° 52' E 10° 54' 1949 - today
Berlin-Dahlem 51 52.45° 13.31° 1950 - today
Berlin-Tegel 36 52° 33 13° 18 1963 - today
Berlin-Tempelhof 49 N 52° 28' E 13° 24' 1948 - today
Bremen 5 N 53° 02' E 08° 47' 1890 - today
Brocken 1142 N 51° 48' E 10° 37' 1947 - today
Dresden-Klotzsche 227 N 51° 07' E 13° 45' 1967 - today
Düsseldorf 37 N 51° 17' E 06° 46' 1969 - today
Emden 0 N 53° 23' E 07° 14' 1997 - today
Erfurt-Bindersleben 316 N 50° 59' E 10° 57' 1951 - today
Fehmarn 3 N 54° 31' E 11° 03' 1948 - today
Fichtelberg 1213 N 50° 25' E 12° 57' 1947 - today
Frankfurt/M-Flughafen 112 N 50° 02' E 08° 35' 1949 - today
Fritzlar 174 N 51° 07' E 09° 17' 2000 - today
Görlitz 238 N 51° 09' E 14° 57' 1947 - today
Greifswald 2 N 54° 05' E 13° 24' 1947 - today
Hamburg-Fuhlsbüttel 11 N 53° 38' E 09° 59' 1891 - today
Hannover 59 N 52° 27' E 09° 40' 1936 - today
Helgoland 4 N 54° 01' E 07° 53' 1952 - today
Hof 567 N 50° 18' E 11° 52' 1947 - today
Hohenpeißenberg 977 N 47° 48' E 11° 00' 1781 - today
Kahler Asten 839 N 51° 11' E 08° 29' 1955 - today
Karlsruhe 112 N 49° 02' E 08° 21' 1876 - 2008
Kempten 705 N 47° 43' E 10° 20' 1952 - today
Konstanz 443 N 47° 40' E 09° 11' 1972 - today
Leipzig/Halle 131 N 51° 26' E 12° 14' 1972 - today
Lindenberg 112 N 52° 12' E 14° 07' 1947 - today
List/Sylt 26 N 55° 00' E 08° 24' 1937 - today
Magdeburg 76 N 52° 06' E 11° 35' 1947 - today
Meiningen 450 N 50° 33' E 10° 22' 1979 - today
München-Flughafen 444 N 48° 22' E 11° 49' 1992 - today
Münster/Osnabrück 48 N 52° 08' E 07° 42' 1989 - today
Neuruppin 38 N 52° 54' E 12° 48' 1961 - today
Nürburg-Barweiler 485 N 50° 22' E 06° 52' 1995 - today
Nürnberg 314 N 49° 30' E 11° 03' 1955 - today
Potsdam 81 N 52° 23' E 13° 03' 1893 - today
Rheinstetten 116 N 48° 58' E 8° 20' 1948 - today
Rostock-Warnemünde 4 N 54° 01' E 12° 04' 1947 - today
Saarbrücken/Ensheim 320 N 49° 12' E 07° 06' 1951 - today
Schleswig 47 N 54° 31' E 09° 32' 1947 - today
Schwerin 59 N 53° 38' E 11° 23' 1890 - today
Straubing 351 N 48° 49' E 12° 33' 1951 - today
Stuttgart/Echterdingen 371 N 48° 41' E 09° 13' 1953 - today
Trier-Petrisberg 265 N 49° 44' E 06° 39' 1937 - today
Würzburg 268 N 49° 46' E 09° 57' 1901 - today
Zugspitze 2960 N 47° 25' E 10° 59' 1900 - today

Coverage and spatial resolution:

  • Stations (Points) in Germany (see table)

Format:

  • NetCDF

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Data quality

The data are quality checked by the DWD. Current data have not passed the routine quality checks. These data have no version number, therefore data can change due to corrections. Contact the DWD for more information about data quality.

Quality niveau of parameters
Quality-CodeMeaning for ground data
0 not quality controlled
1 correct (peer-reviewed)
2 checked and corrected (automatically or manually)
3 confirmed (checked with claim)
4 filled in or calculated (missing in original data)
5 rejected (not yet corrected or confirmed)
6 technically correct (not peer-reviewed)
7 technically wrong
8 missing value, that is not yet filled in
9 missing value

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Contact

CDC Climate Data Centre of Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD)
Contact form

Annika Jahnke-Bornemann
ICDC / CEN / University of Hamburg
E-Mail: annika.jahnke-bornemann"AT"uni-hamburg.de

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References

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Data citation

Please cite the data as follows:

Free climate station data for Germany, Deutscher Wetterdienst

and with the following acknowledgments:

Thanks to ICDC, CEN, University of Hamburg for data support.

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