Find out how to get ECMWF real-time forecast data.

What do we mean by real-time forecast data?

Find out

how to get real-time forecast data

ECMWF free real-time forecast data and charts

• Access ECMWF open real-time forecast data.
• Real-time forecast charts are

• free and available to everyone.

Other real-time forecast data

You can browse real-time forecast data to see what is available, but remember that restrictions apply so you will need to order the data.

Technical set-up for delivery of real-time forecast data

• Technical set-up for delivery of real-time data from ECMWF

Monitoring and

changing delivery of real-time forecast data

• Monitoring

  How to monitor delivery of your real-time forecast data

  delivery

  Change your

• How to change your forecast data requirements

Optional services for real-time

forecast data 

ECMWF offers a number of optional services for the delivery of

real-time forecast data

. The services available to you depend on the service package you have. Note that the silver package is only available for user who have Volume Band 3 or higher, while the Gold package is only available for users with Volume Band 4 or higher.

We suggest a table something like the table below (which is based on content in this page: Information for ECMWF customers).

Do WMO countries, other customers categories need to be included?

See the schedule of real-time data dissemination.

Real-time data format

Find out about data format and how to read your data files.

Change your real-time data with the Product Requirements Editor (PREd)

Manage your data files on our system with the ECMWF Production Data Store (ECPDS)

Depending on what type of customer you are, there are some limits to your data dissemination and the number of changes you can make (the information below  is based on this page: Information for ECMWF customers)

24/7 data dissemination support

Up to 100GB daily data volume

^{Every 10GB thereafter up to a maximum of  600 GB (Maximum Product Daily Volume per contract)  costs  2,000 EUR/year prorate}

Some of the information below is also covered on the website here: https://www.ecmwf.int/en/forecasts/documentation-and-support/data-delivery/requests-changes-and-technical-support

Changes to Standard & Research Licence

Maximum charge & full NMHS licence holders can make up to 12 changes per contract-year to their data requirements. 

To propose changes to your requirements, please use the Product Requirements Editor (PREd).

Please check our documentation for an introduction to interface features and capabilities.

You are entitled to 2 unique configurable ECPDS destinations as part of your Handling Charges. 

You can purchase up to 8 additional ECPDS destinations at a cost of €14000 per unique configurable destination. 

Alias destinations (which are an exact replica of your dataset and not configurable) will be charged at €7000 per alias destination.

All destinations will contribute to the 100GB per day volume limit.

Changes to Standard & Research Licence

Standard Commercial licence holders can make up to 4 changes per contract-year to their data requirements. 

• If you hold a licence with one of the Member of Co-operating States, please contact your licence holder who will make the changes.
• If ECMWF is your Licensor,  you can contact us via our portal → choose Existing customers → Question or issues related to an existing Licence

You are entitled to 1 ECPDS destination as part of your Handling Charges (KM doesn't understand this - it says above that they don't have access to ECPDS - ECPDS is the interface to access the destination, which is granted to max charge.  Could remove the word 'ECPDS' for this one.).

You can purchase up to 9 additional unique configurable destinations. The cost of each additional unique configurable destination will be charged at 100% of your contractual Handling Charges (data in each destination cannot be different to that in your contract).