Rain Gauge Locations Across the City of Montreal

Rain gauge locations on the territory of the City of Montreal. The dataset shows the positions of meteorological instruments intended to measure precipitation quantity over a given time interval. It is provided by the Government and Municipalities of Québec and was last updated on 2026-04-22.

Use Cases

• Validate and calibrate weather models based on point precipitation measurement locations.
• Analyze spatial distribution of environmental monitoring infrastructure based on gauge locations.
• Support urban water management and flood risk assessment based on precipitation measurement network coverage.

Strengths

• Data is provided in multiple geospatial formats (GEOJSON, SHP, CSV) for interoperability.
• Published under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license for reuse.
• Maintained by a government authority (Government and Municipalities of Québec).

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

Government and Municipalities of Québec | Gouvernement et municipalités du Québec

Collection Method

Likely collected and maintained by municipal environmental or public works departments.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-22 17:33:19.689428; freshness should be verified.

Geography

City of Montreal, Québec, Canada