Open Data

Raw Weather Data

Central Hawke's Bay District Council collects weather data from a weather station based near Waipukurau airfield. The data dates from December 2000 to the present day. The form on this page allows you to search the data.

The raw data is being made available to anyone who wishes to use it.

• The data is known to contain errors caused by occasional hardware failure or other problems (ie rabbits digging directly through the ground sensor cabling!). A lot of this data can be stripped by searching for any entries with a value of "-6999".
• The files are zip compressed TAB delimited files. Column names are included at the top of each file.
• The data files are updated with the latest readings at 10:15am each day.
• This data is as is / where is. Central Hawke's Bay District Council does not guarantee the accuracy of the data.

Hour 24 Summary

This file contains the highs and lows of each 24 hour period as of 9:00am. File size is around 250kb compressed as of May 2017.

Download Hour 24 Summary data

Hour Output

This file contains the data output for each hour of the day. File size is around 4.6MB compressed as of May 2017.

Download Hour Output data

Approximate position of the Waipukurau Weather Station: