Copernicus Climate Data Store
FreeLiveLast verified 24 Sept 2026
ERA5 reanalysis back to 1940, seasonal forecasts and climate projections as gridded files via queued jobs.
Example request
curl -s 'https://cds.climate.copernicus.eu/api/catalogue/v1/collections'
Free tier, in plain English
Free to use with a personal access token from a CDS account. You must accept each dataset's licence on its web page before the API will return data from it.
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