WMO Station Identifiers

[Paragon]

Hi all, I am looking for a master file that tells me what all the different 5-digit WMO station identifiers stand for.  I keep track of the most extreme stations around the world, and most use the WMO 5 digit identification system.  As an example, the WMO code for Summit Camp, Greenland is 04416

 

http://weather.gladstonefamily.net/site/04416

 

There are about 41,000 different station codes for locations around the world, but I haven't been able to find a master list that shows what station each number code stands for.  Where can I find this list?

 

Here is the closest I've come to it.

 

http://www.weathergraphics.com/identifiers/

 

http://www.xn--nrdholmen-07a.net/sos4r/2010/04/wmo-identifiers/

 

http://www.wmo.int/pages/prog/www/ois/volume-a/StationIDs_Global_1509.pdf

http://www.wmo.int/pages/prog/www/ois/volume-a/vola-home.htm

 

None of these has the full list of station identifiers though, the closest I get is a general list of ranges for stations in each country or region.

 

Further explanation for what I'm looking for:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Location_identifier#WMO_station_identifiers

WMO station identifiers[edit]

The World Meteorological Organization uses a system of five-digit numeric station codes to represent synoptic weather stations. An example is 72295 for Los Angeles International Airport. The first number specifies the region: 0 to 1 for Europe, 2 to 3 for Russia, 4 for Asia, 5 for the Far East, 6 for Africa, 7 for North America, 8 for South America and Antarctica, and 9 for the Pacific. The remainder of the numbers are set at the regional and national level.

 

 

[so_whats_happening]

Not sure if this helps it has alot of them different format though with categorizing.

https://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/station_data_v2/v2.temperature.inv.txt

or this

http://old.wetterzentrale.de/klima/stnlst.html

http://weather.rap.ucar.edu/surface/stations.txt

Im not exactly sure if you just want the list of the stations or other information about them. You could always use these lists and do the gladstone family if you want major details on each.

[Paragon]

6 hours ago, so_whats_happening said:

Not sure if this helps it has alot of them different format though with categorizing.

https://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/station_data_v2/v2.temperature.inv.txt

or this

http://old.wetterzentrale.de/klima/stnlst.html

http://weather.rap.ucar.edu/surface/stations.txt

Im not exactly sure if you just want the list of the stations or other information about them. You could always use these lists and do the gladstone family if you want major details on each.

Thanks, this helps a lot!  Basically what's going on is I have a list of 5 digit numeric codes and I'm trying to identify which city each one represents.  04416 was the first one in the list, so I searched for that first and it's how I found the gladstone link.  Many thanks for this!

 

It's interesting that when I append the 5 digit station codes at the end of the gladstone link, sometimes it changes the end of the link to include the four digit airport code, even for locations overseas.  Very useful!