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Global Discharge Stations

Global Runoff Data Centre (GRDC). Daily and monthly river discharge from more than 10,000 stations.

The international archive of river discharge, operating under the World Meteorological Organization and collecting data from national hydrological services. It is the standard reference for calibrating and evaluating global hydrological models. The gauge points on this map come from GSIM, which includes most GRDC stations.

Source
Global Runoff Data Centre
Resolution
Station data
Data type
Station data
Time span
1806–present
Temporal
Daily and monthly
Access type
Request from provider · Free download from the GRDC Data Portal after accepting the data policy
Formats
CSV, NetCDF, WaterML 2.0
Coverage
Global (-180, -90, 180, 90)
Licence
GRDC data policy (free, non-commercial use)
Provider page
grdc.bafg.de/

Access

linkGRDC Data Portal (select stations by region or on the map)

https://portal.grdc.bafg.de/

curl "https://hydrological.org/api/v1/datasets/grdc-discharge/links?bbox=-75,-20,-50,5" \
  -H "Accept: application/json"

Also available as JSON: links · manifest · dataset record