<p>ASOS data for all the airports in the world:
<a href="https://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/request/download.phtml" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/request/download.phtml</a></p>
<p>This website also has a lot of other meteorological data for the United States.</p>

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rafiuddin mohammad
<p>I needed hourly historical data for my zip code for heat pump comparison.  NOAA only had data for 2 cities in all of NY and neither were relevant.  I tried to use one of them anyway and also found lots of -9999 temps in each year for which i assume is when there were outages.  Also, the reports were in a horribly unusable format with space-aligned columns rather than using something more easily consumable like CSV.</p>
<p>I later found <a href="https://www.visualcrossing.com/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.visualcrossing.com/</a>.  This one let you build a query and choose which data points you want on your report as well as if you want json or csv format for your output.  I didn't find any missing data points when i got 10 years worth of data for my zip.  It wasn't free, but it was incredibly reasonable at only about 87 cents per year.  It was definitely worth a dollar to not have to mess with cleaning up the data from noaa.</p>

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What NOAA source were you trying? Because there should be more than 2 sites.  Any actual data visualcrossing is almost certainly coming from NOAA. If there's no ASOS like site in your zip code... you may be using interpolated/model data. I agree NOAA can be frustrating to use, but depending on what you're doing, it may be important to know what data you're using.
JeopardyTempest
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Indeed their archived data page says "NOTE: Visual Crossing does not snap your location to the nearest weather station but rather it uses multiple nearby stations to interpolate more exact weather for your detailed, custom location. The more accurate your location you give, the more accurate your weather will be." So it's not actual observations, but interpolated using whatever methods they choose. Reasonable data in some/many situations, but the caveat is important.
JeopardyTempest
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@JeopardyTempest The noaa location i was downloading from was here. 
https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/pub/data/uscrn/products/hourly02/
Bill Tarbell
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2022-09-15T14:00:29.223Z
Interesting... yet another level of site categorization. I was familiar with climate reporting stations (each NWS site has a few... https://www.weather.gov/wrh/Climate?wfo=okx for the NYC region). Didn't know they had yet another level. I guess the attempt is to use more rural sites with long well-kept records that are less affected by urban change (though some of those locations may still not be perfect). A fair idea.  But suffice to say NOAA and other agencies do make it a complex mess of different download sites and site categories instead of making it simple to find and download data :-(
JeopardyTempest
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Bill Tarbell
<p>ACCA Manual J: Residential Load Calculation, look in the back and they have a table of BIN temperatures for most U.S. Cities.</p>

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Mogan Schmidt
<p>The authoritative sources for your data are:</p>

<ol>
<li>ASOS: <a href="http://www.nws.noaa.gov/asos/">Automated Surface Observation Systems</a> at airports, and</li>
<li>MADIS:  the <a href="http://madis.noaa.gov/">Meteorological Assimilation Data Ingest System</a>, from NOAA</li>
</ol>

<p>Those are collections based on calibrated, maintained equipment, with good geographic coverage.</p>

<p>And Wunderground already archives them, so it's a matter of selecting and using those, rather than the <a href="http://www.wunderground.com/about/data.asp">Wunderground data</a> from their own source, the collection of personal weather stations.</p>

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anything like this for europe?
Edoardo
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410 gone
<p>I am looking for historical hourly temperature data from many cities in the US what other data sources are there except <a href="http://www.wunderground.com/history/">wunderground</a>?</p>

<p><strong>UPDATE:</strong> I will use the data to compare stations from the same city and need data with high temporal &amp; spatial resolution; currently, one year of data is enough. I am not mentioning a specific US city because I need data from as many cities in the US as possible that meet my requirements. I am working on a big project of forecasting and I want to see the spatial deviations with in many large cities in the US.</p>

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Where can I get archived hourly temperature data?
eliavs
# Where can I get archived hourly temperature data?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2014-06-08)

I am looking for historical hourly temperature data from many cities in the US what other data sources are there except [wunderground](http://www.wunderground.com/history/)?

**UPDATE:** I will use the data to compare stations from the same city and need data with high temporal & spatial resolution; currently, one year of data is enough. I am not mentioning a specific US city because I need data from as many cities in the US as possible that meet my requirements. I am working on a big project of forecasting and I want to see the spatial deviations with in many large cities in the US.

**Tags:** meteorology, climate, temperature, open-data, database


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## 4 answers

### Answer by username_5 on 2014-06-08. Score: 15 | Accepted answer

The authoritative sources for your data are:

1. ASOS: [Automated Surface Observation Systems](http://www.nws.noaa.gov/asos/) at airports, and
2. MADIS: the [Meteorological Assimilation Data Ingest System](http://madis.noaa.gov/), from NOAA

Those are collections based on calibrated, maintained equipment, with good geographic coverage.

And Wunderground already archives them, so it's a matter of selecting and using those, rather than the [Wunderground data](http://www.wunderground.com/about/data.asp) from their own source, the collection of personal weather stations.

> **Comments:**
> **username_6**: anything like this for europe?  

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### Answer by username_1 on 2020-08-21. Score: 3

ASOS data for all the airports in the world:
<https://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/request/download.phtml>

This website also has a lot of other meteorological data for the United States.


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### Answer by username_2 on 2022-09-11. Score: 1

I needed hourly historical data for my zip code for heat pump comparison. NOAA only had data for 2 cities in all of NY and neither were relevant. I tried to use one of them anyway and also found lots of -9999 temps in each year for which i assume is when there were outages. Also, the reports were in a horribly unusable format with space-aligned columns rather than using something more easily consumable like CSV.

I later found <https://www.visualcrossing.com/>. This one let you build a query and choose which data points you want on your report as well as if you want json or csv format for your output. I didn't find any missing data points when i got 10 years worth of data for my zip. It wasn't free, but it was incredibly reasonable at only about 87 cents per year. It was definitely worth a dollar to not have to mess with cleaning up the data from noaa.

> **Comments:**
> **username_3**: What NOAA source were you trying? Because there should be more than 2 sites.  Any actual data visualcrossing is almost certainly coming from NOAA. If there's no ASOS like site in your zip code... you may be using interpolated/model data. I agree NOAA can be frustrating to use, but depending on what you're doing, it may be important to know what data you're using.  
> **username_3**: Indeed their archived data page says "NOTE: Visual Crossing does not snap your location to the nearest weather station but rather it uses multiple nearby stations to interpolate more exact weather for your detailed, custom location. The more accurate your location you give, the more accurate your weather will be." So it's not actual observations, but interpolated using whatever methods they choose. Reasonable data in some/many situations, but the caveat is important.  
> **username_2**: @username_3 The noaa location i was downloading from was here.  https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/pub/data/uscrn/products/hourly02/  
> **username_3**: Interesting... yet another level of site categorization. I was familiar with climate reporting stations (each NWS site has a few... https://www.weather.gov/wrh/Climate?wfo=okx for the NYC region). Didn't know they had yet another level. I guess the attempt is to use more rural sites with long well-kept records that are less affected by urban change (though some of those locations may still not be perfect). A fair idea.  But suffice to say NOAA and other agencies do make it a complex mess of different download sites and site categories instead of making it simple to find and download data :-(  

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### Answer by username_4 on 2016-01-18. Score: 1

ACCA Manual J: Residential Load Calculation, look in the back and they have a table of BIN temperatures for most U.S. Cities.


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