Historical monthly weather data

From this page you can download historical monthly weather data for 1960-2018. These data are downscaled from CRU-TS-4.06 by the Climatic Research Unit, University of East Anglia, using WorldClim 2.1 for bias correction.

The variables available are average minimum temperature (°C), average maximum temperature (°C) and total precipitation (mm).

The spatial resolution is 2.5 minutes (~21 km2 at the equator), 5 minutes (~85 km2) or 10 minutes (~340 km2). Each download is a “zip” file containing 120 GeoTiff (.tif) files, for each month of the year (January is 1; December is 12), for a 10 year period.

2.5 minutes

years minimum temperature maximum temperature precipitation
1960-1969tmin_1960-1969tmax_1960-1969prec_1960-1969
1970-1979tmin_1970-1979tmax_1970-1979prec_1970-1979
1980-1989tmin_1980-1989tmax_1980-1989prec_1980-1989
1990-1999tmin_1990-1999tmax_1990-1999prec_1990-1999
2000-2009tmin_2000-2009tmax_2000-2009prec_2000-2009
2010-2019tmin_2010-2019tmax_2010-2019prec_2010-2019
2020-2021tmin_2020-2021tmax_2020-2021prec_2020-2021

5 minutes

years minimum temperature maximum temperature precipitation
1960-1969tmin_1960-1969tmax_1960-1969prec_1960-1969
1970-1979tmin_1970-1979tmax_1970-1979prec_1970-1979
1980-1989tmin_1980-1989tmax_1980-1989prec_1980-1989
1990-1999tmin_1990-1999tmax_1990-1999prec_1990-1999
2000-2009tmin_2000-2009tmax_2000-2009prec_2000-2009
2010-2019tmin_2010-2019tmax_2010-2019prec_2010-2019
2020-2021tmin_2020-2021tmax_2020-2021prec_2020-2021

10 minutes

years minimum temperature maximum temperature precipitation
1960-1969tmin_1960-1969tmax_1960-1969prec_1960-1969
1970-1979tmin_1970-1979tmax_1970-1979prec_1970-1979
1980-1989tmin_1980-1989tmax_1980-1989prec_1980-1989
1990-1999tmin_1990-1999tmax_1990-1999prec_1990-1999
2000-2009tmin_2000-2009tmax_2000-2009prec_2000-2009
2010-2019tmin_2010-2019tmax_2010-2019prec_2010-2019
2020-2021tmin_2020-2021tmax_2020-2021prec_2020-2021


You could cite this dataset as follows: CRU-TS 4.06 (Harris et al., 2020) downscaled with WorldClim 2.1 (Fick and Hijmans, 2017).

Fick, S.E. and R.J. Hijmans, 2017. WorldClim 2: new 1km spatial resolution climate surfaces for global land areas. International Journal of Climatology 37 (12): 4302-4315.

Harris, I., Osborn, T.J., Jones, P.D., Lister, D.H. (2020). Version 4 of the CRU TS monthly high-resolution gridded multivariate climate dataset. Scientific Data 7: 109