# DWD Open Data Server

Germany's national weather service file server: ICON model forecasts (GRIB2), radar composites, live station observations, severe-weather warnings (CAP) and long climate station records from its Climate Data Center, all as plain HTTPS downloads.

- Category: Weather and climate · by Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD, German Meteorological Service)
- Website: https://opendata.dwd.de/
- Live data: yes
- Checked on the official pages: 2026-10-23

## API

- No official API. Do not scrape the site; use it by hand or through its downloads.

## Data and license

- Download: https://opendata.dwd.de/ (grib2, csv, text, xml, zip)
- License: CC BY 4.0 (https://www.dwd.de/EN/service/legal_notice/legal_notice_node.html); covers Spatial data and spatial data services of the DWD and DWD high-value datasets; third-party content is marked separately
- Commercial use OK
- Credit required
- Embedding with conditions
- Quote (api_official): "Within its legal mandate, DWD offers weather and climate data free of charge on its Open Data server at https://opendata.dwd.de." (https://opendata.dwd.de/README.txt)
- Quote (api_key): "Access is granted without registration." (https://opendata.dwd.de/README.txt)
- Quote (api_price): "the DWD has been given the legal mandate to make its weather and climate information available mostly free of charge." (https://www.dwd.de/EN/ourservices/opendata/opendata.html)
- Quote (download): "The range of spatial data offered on the DWD's Open Data Server ( https://opendata.dwd.de ) is wide and includes model forecasts, radar data, current measurements and observations, a large amount of different types of climate data and many more." (https://www.dwd.de/EN/ourservices/opendata/opendata.html)
- Quote (climate_data): "The climate data of the DWD will continue to be provided on the server of DWD's Climate Data Center (CDC) at https://opendata.dwd.de/climate_environment/CDC/ ." (https://www.dwd.de/EN/ourservices/opendata/opendata.html)
- Quote (license): "All open spatial data and spatial data services of the DWD as well as all DWD services that are defined as high-value datasets ( HVD ) may be re-used under the Creative Commons licence conditions CC BY 4.0 providing the source is acknowledged." (https://www.dwd.de/EN/service/legal_notice/legal_notice_node.html)
- Quote (commercial): "may be re-used under the Creative Commons licence conditions CC BY 4.0 providing the source is acknowledged." (https://www.dwd.de/EN/service/legal_notice/legal_notice_node.html)
- Quote (attribution): "Re-use is permitted solely under the terms of the Creative Commons license BY 4.0 ( CC BY 4.0 ) providing the source is duly acknowledged." (https://www.dwd.de/EN/service/legal_notice/legal_notice_node.html)
- Quote (embed): "Content that is subject to third-party rights is marked as such. For using such content, it may be necessary to obtain prior consent from the respective rights holders." (https://www.dwd.de/EN/service/legal_notice/legal_notice_node.html)
- Quote (privacy): "By using the Open Data Server you agree that DWD stores your IP address for a maximum of 7 days" (https://opendata.dwd.de/README.txt)

## Rules for an agent

- There is no query API: navigate the directory tree (weather/ for forecasts, radar, warnings; climate_environment/CDC/ for historical station data), read the station description .txt first, then fetch per-station zip files; model files are bz2-compressed GRIB2 and most docs are in German.
- Acknowledge Deutscher Wetterdienst as the source (CC BY 4.0) and say if you changed the data.
- Check for third-party content marked as such; it may need separate permission.
- Mirror only what you need and cache it; files are refreshed in place, so poll directory listings rather than re-downloading everything.

Human page: https://agentgid.com/resources/dwd-open-data/
Source: AgentGid (agentgid.com). Facts are quoted from the site's own pages; check the license page before you ship.