Hydrological Data from 7,000 Stations Across England

Approximately 7,000 stations across England provide river flow, river level, groundwater, and rainfall data. The Environment Agency owns this open data, sourced from both real-time telemetry and the internal WISKI archive. Data is recorded in GMT and is subject to quality control procedures, meaning published values may change.

Use Cases

• Flood forecasting and warning based on real-time river level and rainfall telemetry data.
• Long-term water resource analysis based on daily and monthly river flow and groundwater records.
• Climate impact studies on hydrological cycles based on high-resolution 15-minute data across multiple parameters.

Strengths

• Covers approximately 7,000 monitoring stations across England.
• Includes high-resolution 15-minute data alongside daily and monthly aggregates.
• Combines real-time telemetry feeds with archived data from the WISKI system.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to uk_data, focusing solely on England.
• Last updated 2026-07-06 07:11:49.732702; freshness should be verified.

Provenance

Source

Environment Agency

Collection Method

Combination of real-time telemetry and internal WISKI archive data.

Freshness

Real-time updates for some parameters; daily, weekly, and monthly updates for others.

Geography

England