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Totaliser precipitation stations

In supplement to manual precipitation stations in mountainous areas that are difficult to access, MeteoSwiss operates around 60 totalisers which record the volume of precipitation for an entire year (see section "Totaliser monitoring network – annual readings" here.

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Totaliser precipitation data cover a so-called 'hydrological year', i.e. from 1 October to 30 September of the following year. They are therefore not comparable one-to-one with the annual totals of other precipitation datasets/collections.

Data download

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We are currently setting up our service as Beta. During this phase everything is subject to change without prior notice.

  • All files are available for all stations.

You can access the available Open Data via https://data.geo.admin.ch/browser/index.html#/collections/ch.meteoschweiz.ogd-tot

Data structure

The data is split by measuring station. A file for a station contains all available parameters in one file. There are files with yearly y values.

See e.g. files for station Mönchsgrat (MGR): ogd-tot_mgr_(data granularity)_(update frequency).csv.

Data format

CSV with an estimated volume of ≤0.6 MB per file.

Metadata

All parameters have a unique identifier that depends on the time resolution .

ogd-tot_meta_parameters.csv provides a list of all parameter identifiers with explanation, time interval, decimal places, data type and unit of measurement.

Data usage

See e.g. MeteoSwiss' SwissMetNet network map.