CEH-GEAR gridded rainfall

CEH-GEAR gridded rainfall (UKCEH). Access: download (EIDC). Formats: NetCDF. Resolution: 1 km daily. Coverage: GB. Pricing/licence: free (OGL).

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What's in it

Data offered docs-verified: daily gridded areal rainfall · monthly gridded areal rainfall
Coverage docs-verified: Great Britain and Northern Ireland, plus approximately 3000 km2 of catchment in the Republic of Ireland · 1890-01-01 to 2019-12-31
Resolution docs-verified: 1 km (1000 m) spatial; daily and monthly temporal
Formats docs-verified: NetCDF
Access docs-verified: Free under the Open Government Licence (OGL) via EIDC download; the scripted bulk download example uses a personal access token

Useful for

Use cases llm-inferred: Long-term daily rainfall series as drainage strategy rainfall inputs at site scale · Historical wet and dry spell analysis for FRA or water resources context · Monthly rainfall baselines for catchment water balance checks
Audience llm-inferred: hydrologists · flood consultants · drainage engineers · water resources planners · GIS analysts

Limitations

Constraints docs-verified: Rainfall quality decreases as distance to the closest gauge increases; the minimum distance is supplied with the values · No rainfall values are derived where the minimum distance exceeds 100 km · Coverage is limited to GB, Northern Ireland and a small part of the Republic of Ireland · Scripted bulk download requires a personal access token

Licence: free (OGL)
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Provenance & evidence

Verified 2026-10-16 (curl HTTP 200).

Metadata observed 14/10/2026 · research sweep: sweep-2026-10-16 (named: UK)

https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/documents/dbf13dd5-90cd-457a-a986-f2f9dd97e93c