Hydrological Hydrological data discovery portal
Sign in Get started

Datasets / Climate

Climate

Daymet V4

Daily surface weather for North America. 1 km daily weather for North America since 1980.

Minimum and maximum temperature, precipitation, vapour pressure, shortwave radiation, snow water equivalent and day length, interpolated from weather stations.

Source
National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Oak Ridge National Laboratory DAAC
Resolution
1 km
Data type
Raster
Time span
1980–present
Temporal
Daily, monthly, annual
Access type
API (external) · Single-pixel and THREDDS subset services, no login
Formats
NetCDF, CSV (single pixel)
Coverage
North America, Hawaii and Puerto Rico (-179, 14, -52, 83)
Licence
Public domain (U.S. Government work)
DOI
10.3334/ORNLDAAC/2129
Provider page
daymet.ornl.gov/

Cite as. Thornton, M. M., et al. (2022). Daymet: Daily Surface Weather Data on a 1-km Grid for North America, Version 4 R1. ORNL DAAC. https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/2129

Access

pointDaily series at the centre of the area, 2020 (single-pixel API)

https://daymet.ornl.gov/single-pixel/api/data?lat={lat}&lon={lon}&vars=prcp,tmax,tmin&start=2020-01-01&end=2020-12-31

curl -fL "https://daymet.ornl.gov/single-pixel/api/data?lat=48.5000&lon=-115.5000&vars=prcp,tmax,tmin&start=2020-01-01&end=2020-12-31" \
  -o response

Also available as JSON: links · manifest · dataset record