dataset · United Kingdom
Met Office UK Land Surface Observations
Land surface weather observations for 31 parameters from over 250 locations across the Met Office UK land observation network. The data is available as CSV files. You can use it to monitor the latest weather affecting a specific location so you can plan for your business or operations. <br><br> The observations are produced every minute and transmitted to the Amazon Registry of Open Data every hour. They’re available for a rolling 7-day period (168 hours). <br> All locations in the observation n
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Licence: British Crown copyright 2024-2025, the Met Office, is licensed under [CC BY-SA](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en)
Evidence quality: 64.2
Listed in aws-odr 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
- land surface weather observations · 31 meteorological parameters (not all recorded at every location)
- Coverage docs-verified
- UK land observation network, bounding box -15 (W) 48 (S) 5 (E) 62 (N); over 250 locations · rolling 7-day period (168 hours)
- Resolution docs-verified
- Spatial: about 40 km average spacing between locations. Temporal: observations produced every minute.
- Update frequency docs-verified
- Hourly ingestion to AWS (60 minutes of new data per hour); observations produced every minute
- Formats docs-verified
- CSV
- Access docs-verified
- Open data on AWS S3 (eu-west-2); no AWS account required for CLI access; licence CC BY-SA 4.0 (British Crown copyright, Met Office)
Useful for
- Use cases llm-inferred
- Live weather monitoring at a site to inform construction or operational planning · Recent (last 7 days) weather context for site works, dewatering or drainage activities · Nearest-station recent observations to support site investigation or flood risk review
- Audience llm-inferred
- civils engineers · drainage engineers · hydrologists · environmental consultants · GIS analysts
Limitations
- Constraints llm-inferred
- Rolling 7-day window only; no historical archive in this entry · Not all 31 parameters are recorded at every location; check the Met Office documentation per site · About 1 hour latency: data for a given hour arrives after quality checks in the following hour · Met Office describes this as a non-operational service; support responses aim for 3-5 business days, service desk Mon-Fri 09:00-17:00 UTC
Evidence
- arn:aws:s3:::met-office-land-observations-data, arn:aws:sns:eu-west-2:633885181284:met-office-land-observations-data-object_created
- https://registry.opendata.aws/met-office-uk-land-observations/
Check upstream coverage, uncertainty and licence before use. Station observations are not forecasts or design levels.