dataset · United Kingdom
Historical monthly data for meteorological stations
Monthly Historical information for 37 UK Meteorological Stations. Most go back to the early 1900s, but some go back as far as 1853. Data includes: * Mean maximum temperature (tmax) * Mean minimum temperature (tmin) * Days of air frost (af) * Total rainfall (rain) * Total sunshine duration (sun) Station data files are updated on a rolling monthly basis, around 10 days after the end of the month. Data are indicated as provisional until the full network quality control has been carried out. After t
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Licence: UK Open Government Licence (OGL)
Evidence quality: 61.5
Listed in data.gov.uk public catalogue API on 2026-10-16; relevance/value screened (haiku).
Metadata checked: 2026-10-14T13:20:00.000Z
What's in it
- Data offered docs-verified
- monthly mean maximum temperature (tmax) · monthly mean minimum temperature (tmin) · days of air frost (af) · monthly total rainfall (rain) · monthly total sunshine duration (sun)
- Coverage docs-verified
- UK (37 Met Office meteorological stations) · Most stations from the early 1900s; some from 1853
- Resolution docs-verified
- Monthly values per station
- Update frequency docs-verified
- Monthly, rolling, around 10 days after the end of each month
- Formats docs-verified
- TXT
- Access docs-verified
- Free download under UK Open Government Licence (OGL) for the listed stations; data for other stations and associated charges via Met Office Customer Centre
Useful for
- Use cases llm-inferred
- Long-term temperature and rainfall baseline for FRA and drainage design context · Frost-day and temperature trend analysis for freeze-thaw risk in geotechnical assessments · Monthly rainfall and sunshine series for ecological or climate-resilience reporting
- Audience llm-inferred
- flood consultants · hydrologists · drainage engineers · geotechnical engineers · ecologists · climate resilience consultants
Limitations
- Constraints llm-inferred
- Data are provisional until full network quality control is complete · No allowance made for small site changes or instrumentation developments · Only 37 stations in this dataset; other stations are chargeable · Monthly TXT files per station; no API or MCP tools listed in the entry
Evidence
- http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/pub/data/weather/uk/climate/stationdata/aberporthdata.txt
- https://www.data.gov.uk/dataset/17ba3bbe-0e98-4a8c-9937-bd1d50fdc3c5/historic-monthly-meteorological-station-data
Check upstream coverage, uncertainty and licence before use. Station observations are not forecasts or design levels.