🌦️ DWD Germany Weather Stations Scraper

🚀 Export Germany's DWD weather station observations in seconds. Temperature, humidity, wind, pressure, and observation time from every public POI station.

🕒 Last updated: 2026-05-29 · 📊 11 fields per record · 1,000+ German stations · Live POI feed

The DWD Germany Weather Stations Scraper reads the opendata.dwd.de public POI weather report directory and returns one row per station with the latest temperature, humidity, wind speed, pressure, and timestamp.

Coverage spans every German station Deutscher Wetterdienst publishes via the open data POI bulletin, with no API key required.

🎯 Target Audience	💡 Primary Use Cases
🌦️ Meteorologists	Mirror DWD POI feeds into a private warehouse
🚜 Agritech	Pull station observations for nearby fields
✈️ Aviation analysts	Cross-check German weather conditions
🤖 Data engineers	Build time series datasets
🎓 Researchers	Use authoritative DWD observations in studies
🏗️ Construction & logistics	Plan against current conditions

📋 What the DWD Germany Weather Stations Scraper does

• Reads the DWD POI directory listing.
• Optionally filters stations by name substring.
• Downloads each station's latest BEOB report and extracts the most recent observation.
• Normalizes German decimals (comma to dot) and casts numeric fields.
• Pushes a clean diagnostic record when DWD is unreachable.

💡 Why it matters: DWD's open data is free but distributed as one CSV per station inside an Apache directory listing. This actor crawls the directory and parses the latest values into a tidy table.

🎬 Full Demo

🚧 Coming soon.

⚙️ Input

Field	Type	Required	Description
stationFilter	string	No	Substring filter on station ID, case-insensitive.
maxItems	integer	No	Free 10, paid up to 1,000,000.

Example 1 - Berlin stations only:

{ "stationFilter": "BERLIN", "maxItems": 20 }

Example 2 - All stations, top 10:

{ "maxItems": 10 }

⚠️ Good to Know: DWD POI files are overwritten roughly hourly. Run on a schedule to build a time series.

📊 Output

Field	Type	Description
🆔 station_id	string	DWD station identifier.
📍 station_name	string	Human readable station name.
🧭 latitude	number	Latitude (when listed).
🧭 longitude	number	Longitude (when listed).
🌡️ temperature	number	Air temperature in °C.
💧 humidity	number	Relative humidity in percent.
💨 wind	number	Mean wind speed in m/s.
📊 pressure	number	Air pressure in hPa.
🕒 observation_time	string	Observation timestamp (UTC).
🕒 scrapedAt	string	When this row was fetched.
❌ error	string	Set if upstream response was an error.

Sample record:

{
  "station_id": "10384",
  "station_name": "BERLIN DAHLEM",
  "latitude": null,
  "longitude": null,
  "temperature": 18.4,
  "humidity": 62.0,
  "wind": 3.1,
  "pressure": 1014.2,
  "observation_time": "2026-05-29 12:00",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-05-29T13:00:00.000Z",
  "error": null
}

✨ Why choose this Actor

| 🆓 | Works with no API key. | | 🇩🇪 | Reads DWD's authoritative open data POI feed. | | 🔢 | German decimals normalized; numbers cast to floats. | | 🛟 | Surfaces upstream errors as a clean diagnostic row. | | 💾 | Push to dataset and export CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML. |

📈 How it compares to alternatives

Approach	Setup time	Numeric parsing	Maintained
Manual DWD directory crawl	hours	manual	manual
DWD bulk archives	hours to parse	partial	offline
This Actor	5 sec, no install	✅	live

🚀 How to use

1. Click Try for free.
2. Optionally filter by station name.
3. Click Start.

💼 Business use cases

🌦️ Forecast verification. Compare your model to DWD observations.

🚜 Agritech. Pull nearby station temperatures for irrigation decisions.

✈️ Aviation operations. Cross-check German aerodrome weather.

🤖 Time series pipelines. Schedule hourly runs to build a long history.

🔌 Automating DWD Germany Weather Stations Scraper

• Make / Zapier: trigger and push to Airtable or Google Sheets.
• Cron schedule: hourly refreshes aligned with DWD updates.
• Webhooks: POST to your endpoint after each run.
• Pipe to BigQuery / Snowflake / Postgres: native integrations.

🌟 Beyond business use cases

🎓 Education. Teach data engineering with real meteorological data.

🧪 Personal research. Track your local German station.

🤝 Non-profit. Build community climate dashboards.

🧰 Prototyping. Mock up a weather app with real numbers.

🤖 Ask an AI assistant about this scraper

Paste this README into ChatGPT or Claude.

❓ Frequently Asked Questions

❓ Do I need an API key? No.

❓ How fresh is the data? Hourly updates from DWD.

❓ Can I filter stations? Yes, set stationFilter to a substring.

❓ Why are some lat/lon null? DWD's POI file does not include coordinates in every report.

❓ Are decimals normalized? Yes, German commas become dots and values are cast to numbers.

❓ Can I schedule runs? Yes via the Apify scheduler.

❓ Is this scraping or API? Public DWD open data directory.

❓ What format can I download? CSV, Excel, JSON, JSONL, XML, RSS, or HTML.

❓ What if DWD is down? A diagnostic record with error is pushed.

❓ Will the schema change? Stable.

🔌 Integrate with any app

Apify ships native integrations with Make, Zapier, Slack, Discord, Google Drive, Google Sheets, Gmail, Airbyte, Keboola, Telegram, GitHub, and any REST API or webhook.

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