Meteostat CLI

Access weather and climate data through the terminal.

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📚 Installation

uv tool install meteostat-cli

For plotting capabilities (png and svg output), install the plot extra:

uv tool install "meteostat-cli[plot]"

Alternatively, you can use uvx:

uvx --from meteostat-cli meteo

🚀 Usage

Get daily weather data for a station

meteo daily 10637 --start 2024-01-01 --end 2024-12-31

Get hourly data by coordinates (with interpolation)

meteo hourly 50.1109,8.6821 --start 2024-01-01 --end 2024-01-07

Export data to a file

meteo daily 10637 -s 2024-01-01 -e 2024-12-31 --output data.json

Plot temperature data

meteo daily 10637 -s 2024-01-01 -e 2024-12-31 --output chart.png

📖 Commands

meteo station — Browse weather stations

meteo station 10637                        # Metadata for a specific station
meteo station --country DE                 # List stations by country
meteo station --country DE --state HE      # Filter by country and state
meteo station --name "Frankfurt"           # Search by name

Option	Short	Description
--country	-c	ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code
--state		State or region code
--name	-n	Station name (partial match)
--wmo	-w	WMO station ID
--icao	-i	ICAO station ID
--iata		IATA station ID
--national	-N	National station ID
--bbox		Bounding box (lon_min,lat_min,lon_max,lat_max)
--sql		Arbitrary SQL query
--format	-f	Output format: csv, json, xlsx, parquet
--output	-o	Output file path (defaults to stdout)
--no-header		Omit CSV header row
--all	-A	Print full table without truncation

meteo nearby — Find stations near a location

meteo nearby 50.1109 8.6821                        # Nearest stations (default: 5 within 5 km)
meteo nearby 50.1109 8.6821 --limit 10             # Return up to 10 stations
meteo nearby 50.1109 8.6821 --radius 20000         # Search within 20 km
meteo nearby 50.1109 8.6821 --format json          # JSON output

Option	Short	Description
--limit	-l	Maximum number of stations (default: 5)
--radius	-r	Search radius in meters (default: 5000)
--format	-f	Output format: csv, json, xlsx, parquet
--output	-o	Output file path (defaults to stdout)
--no-header		Omit CSV header row
--all	-A	Print full table without truncation

meteo inventory — Check data availability

meteo inventory 10637
meteo inventory 10637 --granularity daily --parameters tavg,tmin,tmax

Option	Short	Description
--granularity	-g	Filter by granularity: hourly/h, daily/d, monthly/m
--parameters	-p	Comma-separated parameters (e.g. tavg,tmin,tmax)
--providers	-P	Comma-separated data providers
--format	-f	Output format: csv, json, xlsx, parquet
--output	-o	Output file path (defaults to stdout)
--no-header		Omit CSV header row
--all	-A	Print full table without truncation

meteo hourly — Hourly weather data

meteo hourly 10637 --start 2024-01-01 --end 2024-01-31
meteo h 10637 -s 2024-01-01 -e 2024-01-31                    # Short form
meteo hourly 10637 10635 -s 2024-01-01 -e 2024-01-31         # Multiple stations
meteo hourly 10637 --agg max -s 2024-01-01 -e 2024-01-31     # Aggregate by station and time

See Common options below. Hourly also supports --timezone/-t (e.g. Europe/Berlin).

meteo daily — Daily weather data

meteo daily 10637 --start 2024-01-01 --end 2024-12-31
meteo d 10637 -s 2024-01-01 -e 2024-12-31    # Short form

See Common options below.

meteo monthly — Monthly weather data

meteo monthly 10637 --start 2020 --end 2024
meteo m 10637 -s 2020 -e 2024               # Short form

See Common options below.

meteo normals — Climate normals

meteo normals 10637 --start 1991 --end 2020
meteo n 10637 -s 1991 -e 2020               # Short form

See Common options below.

Common options (hourly / daily / monthly / normals)

Option	Short	Description
--start	-s	Start date (YYYY-MM-DD, YYYY-MM, YYYY)
--end	-e	End date (same formats)
--parameters	-p	Comma-separated parameters (e.g. tavg,tmin,tmax,prcp)
--providers	-P	Comma-separated data providers
--format	-f	Output format: csv, json, xlsx, parquet, png, svg
--output	-o	Output file path (defaults to stdout)
--timezone	-t	Timezone for timestamps (e.g. Europe/Berlin) — hourly only
--with-sources	-S	Include data source column in output
--no-models		Exclude model data (e.g. MOSMIX)
--no-header		Omit CSV header row
--no-cache		Disable result caching
--all	-A	Print full table without truncation
--agg		Aggregation function: mean, sum, min, max

meteo config — Manage configuration

meteo config --list                        # List all settings
meteo config cache_enable false            # Set a value
meteo config interpolation_radius 25000

Configuration is stored in cli.yml under typer.get_app_dir("meteostat").

Shell completion

meteo --install-completion   # Bash, Zsh, Fish, PowerShell

🤝 Contributing

Please read our contributing guidelines for details on how to contribute to Meteostat.

📄 License

The Meteostat CLI is licensed under the MIT License. Data provided by Meteostat is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). See the documentation for details.