Meteorological data ressources

Meteorological data resources

This page lists important Federal meteo products and some Cantonal resources.

Time series  (Swiss Federal resources)

• New (Oct 2025): from now on, all Swiss Meteorological Data can be downloaded from here: https://opendatadocs.meteoswiss.ch/general/download
• Information on the network of automatic MeteoSwiss stations, SwissMetNet, is available here. The map at the bottom links to all stations, direct acces to the map here (there is slider to show the table instead of the map).
  • Besides the automatic network (hourly data), there is also a manual precipitation observation network with daily precipitation data (in the above map).
  • The stations are also visible in the map of current values.
  • Measurements at the SLF stations (snow measurement network) can be found in the MeteoSwiss database
• For gridded data: see complete overview of available data for general public on MeteoSwiss page, here (not in english). All data for Spatial Climate Analysise are described here (in english).
  • For hydrological purposes, the products "RhiresD" (pdf in english) (daily precip at 1km resolution) and "Tabs" (daily temperature) since 1961 are particularly useful. They are also described here (not in english) and an example of gridded precipitation data see here.
  • NEW: Since June 2019, MeteoSwiss also proposes a probabilistic analysis of area mean daily precipitation, called RhydchprobD, which is described here.

Climatological maps (Swiss Federal resources)

• Some gridded average climatological data (maps, no time series) available from the swiss hydrological Atlas (e.g. evaporation, mean annual precipitation)

Extreme value analysis (Swiss Federal resources)

• MeteoSwiss has an online database of extreme precipitation analysis, here.

Cantonal ressources (very incomplete):

• Canton de Vaud: http://www.vhv.ch/