Historical weather data for any date and place
What was the weather like on a specific day? Pick a place and a date from yesterday back to 1940 for hour-by-hour temperature, rain, wind and sunshine. Free, no account.
Type a city, town or ZIP code above, or use your location.
How to find the weather on a past date
Type the place and choose it from the list (or tap Use my location), pick a date and press Show the weather; the quick buttons jump straight to yesterday, the last week or month, or the same day in earlier years. Use the arrows under the result to step a day at a time, and Copy link to share exactly what you are looking at. One day gives you an hour-by-hour chart; a range gives one line per day, with the daily high, low, total rain or snow, sunshine and strongest gust. Choose °F or °C, inches or millimetres and your wind unit in the bar at the top; the page converts every figure instantly.
The archive starts on 1 January 1940 and usually runs to about two days ago. Numbers come from ERA5, the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts’ reanalysis, which blends millions of historical observations into a physics model to fill a complete global grid. That means you get an answer for a village with no weather station, but the answer describes a grid cell several kilometres wide. Read how reanalysis works and where it falls short.
What was the weather yesterday?
Yesterday is the default date. The newest two or three days come from ECMWF’s operational forecast-model analysis, because ERA5 itself is published with a short delay; once ERA5 arrives those days are replaced by the reanalysis. Totals for the most recent day can change slightly as late observations are folded in.
Good uses
Checking a birthday or the day you were born, backing up a travel or insurance claim, writing up a site diary, checking whether a delivery really faced a storm, or seeing how a holiday week compared with normal. For planning, the monthly climate averages and event-date odds are more useful than any single past year.
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Questions people ask
How far back does the historical weather data go?
Hourly and daily data are available from 1 January 1940 up to roughly two days ago, for any point on land or sea.
Is this weather station data?
No. It is ERA5 reanalysis: a weather model re-run over the past and constrained by observations from stations, balloons, ships, aircraft and satellites. It is consistent and complete, but it represents an area several kilometres across, so a local station can read differently.
What was the weather yesterday where I live?
Open the page: yesterday is the default date. Pick your place (or use your location) and the hour-by-hour temperature, rain and wind appear straight away.
Can I look up historical weather by ZIP code?
Yes. Type a US ZIP code (or a postcode elsewhere) in the place box and pick the matching town; the data is for the grid point at that town’s coordinates.
Can I see what the weather was on the day I was born?
Yes, if you were born in 1940 or later. Pick the place and the date; the hourly view shows the temperature, rain and wind through that day.
Why does the rain total differ from my local news?
Showers and thunderstorms can be smaller than a model grid cell, and reanalysis spreads rain over the cell. Daily totals in convective weather are the least reliable figures here.
Is it free to download the data?
Yes. Use the CSV button under any table. The underlying data from Open-Meteo is licensed CC BY 4.0, so credit Open-Meteo and Copernicus ERA5 if you publish it.