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Climate Data Download Center



There are many different weather data formats available. EQUA currently offers a selection of climate files for IDA ICE, using the formats described below.

To download weather files, use the menu to the left.

Test Reference Year (TRY)
The TRY weather data are composed from measured data of representative months to form a whole representative year.

ASHRAE IWEC
The ASHRAE IWEC 1.1 database contains "typical" weather files for 227 locations outside the USA and Canada. The International Weather for Energy Calculation (IWEC) files are derived from up to 18 years of DATSAV3 hourly weather data originally archived at the National Climatic Data Center.

ASHRAE IWEC 2
The ASHRAE IWEC 2 database contains "typical" weather files for 3012 locations outside the United States and Canada. The files are derived from Integrated Surface Hourly (ISH) weather data originally archived at the National Climatic Data Center.

EnergyPlus Weather Data
Weather data for more than 2100 locations are now available in EnergyPlus weather format — 1042 locations in the USA, 71 locations in Canada, and more than 1000 locations in 100 other countries throughout the world. The weather data are arranged by World Meteorological Organization region and Country.