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NOAA Monthly U.S. Climate Gridded Dataset (NClimGrid)

Published by NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce | Metadata Last Checked: January 27, 2026 | Last Modified: 2015-06-12T00:00:00.000+00:00
The NOAA Monthly U.S. Climate Gridded Dataset (NClimGrid) consists of four climate variables derived from the GHCN-D dataset: maximum temperature, minimum temperature, average temperature and precipitation. Each file provides monthly values in a 5x5 lat/lon grid for the Continental United States. Data is available from 1895 to the present. In March 2015, new Alaska data was included in the nClimDiv dataset. The Alaska nClimDiv data were created and updated using similar methodology as that for the CONUS. It includes maximum temperature, minimum temperature, average temperature and precipitation. In January 2025, the National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) began summarizing the State of the Climate for Hawaii. This was made possible through a collaboration between NCEI and the University of Hawaii/Hawaii Climate Data Portal and completes a long-standing gap in NCEI's ability to characterize the State of the Climate for all 50 states. NCEI maintains monthly statewide, divisional, and gridded average temperature, maximum temperatures (highs), minimum temperature (lows) and precipitation data for Hawaii over the period 1991-2025.

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  • Hawaii Climate Data Portal

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  • NCEI Dataset Landing Page

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  • Dataset README

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  • NCEI Direct Download (archive)

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  • NCEI Direct Download (real-time)

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  • NCEI THREDDS Catalog

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  • NCEI Direct Download (dataset documentation)

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  • Registry of Open Data on AWS

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  • AWS S3 Explorer (Region: us-east-1)

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  • Azure Landing Page (Region: europe-west, us-east)

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  • NOAA's Climate Divisional Database (NClimDiv)

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  • Improved Historical Temperature and Precipitation Time Series for U.S. Climate Divisions

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  • Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Keywords

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  • GCOS Essential Climate Variables

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  • NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI)

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identifier gov.noaa.ncdc:C00332
issued 2014-06-12T00:00:00.000+00:00
keyword 
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  "Earth Science > Atmosphere > Atmospheric Temperature > Surface Temperature > Maximum/Minimum Temperature",
  "Earth Science > Atmosphere > Precipitation > Precipitation Amount",
  "Atmospheric - Surface - Precipitation",
  "Atmospheric - Surface - Air Temperature",
  "Continent > North America > United States Of America",
  "Vertical Location > Land Surface",
  "Rain Gauges",
  "Thermometers",
  "Meteorological Stations",
  "1 km - < 10 km or approximately .01 degree - < .09 degree",
  "Monthly Climatology",
  "DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC > National Climatic Data Center, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce",
  "DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NCEI > National Centers for Environmental Information, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce",
  "Climate Change",
  "Climatology",
  "Surface Observations",
  "Interpolation Schemes"
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language 
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license https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
modified 2015-06-12T00:00:00.000+00:00
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rights otherRestrictions
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temporal 1895-01-01T00:00:00+00:00/1895-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
title NOAA Monthly U.S. Climate Gridded Dataset (NClimGrid)

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