1. Observations

Station data over Canada

Environment Canada (EC) maintains a collection of over 200 million observations, from over 7,000 sites, some dating as far back as 1840. These records of Canada's ever-changing weather have proved invaluable to a wide variety of specialists, including weather forecasters, emergency planners and weather-dependent businesses and industry.

The National Climate Data and Information Archive, operated and maintained by EC, includes official climate and weather observations for Canada. The database contains monthly, daily and hourly weather observations, including temperature, precipitation, air pressure, wind speed, and cloud types, as well as notes on the occurrence of thunderstorms, hail, fog and other types of weather. You can find more information on the National Climate Data and Information Archive website.

If you want to retrieve data from a particular station on a particular day, month or year, please go to Climate Data Online.

If you want to access long time series for several stations at a time, please browse the available data below.


Acknowledgments and references

Please refer and acknowledge all observed data that you obtain through the DAI Portal, using the following sentence:

We acknowledge Environment Canada (EC) for the access of observed station data, retrieved from the National Climate Data and Information Archive, operated and maintained by EC.

The observed station data were obtained from Environment Canada.

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