4 Available datasets
overview of the FTP folder structure
The following folders in res/var/per notation (resolution/variable/period) are available at
dwdbase.
Here’s a full example URL, for a file at hourly/wind/recent: ftp://opendata.dwd.de/climate_environment/CDC/observations_germany/climate/hourly/wind/recent/stundenwerte_FF_00164_akt.zip
“<” signifies a split into the folders per = “recent” and “historical”.
“<<” signifies a split into the folders per = “now”, “recent”, “historical” and “meta_data”.
“-” signifies that there are no further sub-folders.
“+” signifies another structure of subfolders.
The symbols are clickable URLS leading to the corresponding res/var/ FTP folder.
Please note:
both “solar” (-/<<) and “sun” (<) are available!
1_minute/precipitation/historicalhas a subfolder for each year.
subdaily/standard_formatdoes not actually split in subfolders, but has recent/hist information infileIndex.internally,
rdwduses ftp://opendata.dwd.de URLS, but web browsers no longer support FTP, so the documentation links to the https variant.
| res= (columns) | 1_minute | 5_minutes | 10_minutes | hourly | subdaily | daily | monthly | annual | multi_annual |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| var= (rows below) | per | per | per | per | per | per | per | per | per |
| air_temperature | << | < | < | ||||||
| climate_indices | + | + | |||||||
| cloudiness | < | < | |||||||
| cloud_type | < | ||||||||
| dew_point | < | ||||||||
| extreme_temperature | << | ||||||||
| extreme_wind | << | < | < | ||||||
| kl | < | < | < | ||||||
| moisture | < | < | |||||||
| more_precip | < | < | < | ||||||
| more_weather_phenomena | < | ||||||||
| precipitation | << | << | << | < | |||||
| pressure | < | < | |||||||
| soil | < | ||||||||
| soil_temperature | < | < | |||||||
| solar | << | - | - | ||||||
| sun | < | ||||||||
| standard_format | - | ||||||||
| visibility | < | < | |||||||
| water_equiv | < | ||||||||
| weather_phenomena | < | < | < | < | |||||
| wind | << | < | < | ||||||
| wind_synop | < | ||||||||
| wind_test | << | ||||||||
| RES | 1_minute | 5_minutes | 10_minutes | hourly | subdaily | daily | monthly | annual | multi_annual |
| mean_61-90 | - | ||||||||
| mean_71-00 | - | ||||||||
| mean_81-10 | - | ||||||||
| mean_91-20 | - | ||||||||
| mean_61-90_obsolete | - | ||||||||
| mean_71-00_obsolete | - | ||||||||
| mean_81-10_obsolete | - |