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Historical Rainfall across Singapore (2020)

Data from Jan 2020 to Dec 2020

Last updated: 06 May 2025, 01:51 SGT

NEA (National Environment Agency)

Historical rainfall across Singapore. All timestamps are provided in Singapore Time (SGT), formatted in ISO 8601.

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Disclaimer: This dataset may contain missing records and has not undergone quality control procedures applied to climate data and records. For official climate records or climate data reports, please contact sales_climo@nea.gov.sg. Please note that fees may apply for data and report preparation.

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data.gov.sg

Sample OpenAPI query

This code can be used to test a sample API query. It retrieves the data catalogue of this dataset. For a complete guide on query parameters and syntax, please refer to the API documentation. Try it out on your browser to see the response schema.

import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_9e7de44094f876f6804b8b5bcee45c81"
url = "https://data.gov.sg/api/action/datastore_search?resource_id="  + dataset_id 
        
response = requests.get(url)
print(response.json())

Data explorer

HistoricalRainfallacrossSingapore2020.csv (6.3M rows, 1.1 GB)

Date Date (YYYY-MM-DD)	Timestamp Text	Update Timestamp Text	Station Id Text	Station Name Text	Station Device Id Text	Location Longitude Text	Location Latitude Text	Reading Update Timestamp Text	Reading Value Numeric	Reading Type Text	Reading Unit Text
(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0% 2020-06-17T17:35:00+08:00<0.1% 2020-06-17T17:40:00+08:00<0.1% 2020-06-17T08:50:00+08:00<0.1% 2020-06-17T08:55:00+08:00<0.1%	(Null)0.0% 2020-06-17T20:46:33+08:00<0.1% 2020-07-17T23:19:28+08:00<0.1% 2020-08-20T20:35:20+08:00<0.1% 2020-08-21T16:20:05+08:00<0.1%	(Null)0.0% S881.6% S081.6% S1201.6% S111.6%	(Null)0.0% Toa Payoh North1.6% Upper Thomson Road1.6% Holland Road1.6% Clementi Road1.6%	(Null)0.0% S881.6% S081.6% S1201.6% S111.6%	(Null)0.0% 103.803891.7% 103.84821.6% 103.82711.6% 103.8181.6%	(Null)0.0% 1.34271.6% 1.37011.6% 1.308741.6% 1.33371.6%	(Null)0.0% 2020-07-02T16:49:56+08:00<0.1% 2020-09-06T12:35:37+08:00<0.1% 2020-08-07T16:54:27+08:00<0.1% 2020-08-01T03:55:24+08:00<0.1%	(Null)0.0% 0.097.0% 0.21.2% 0.40.3% 0.60.2%	(Null)0.0% TB1 Rainfall 5 Minute Total F100.0%	(Null)0.0% mm100.0%
2020-01-01	2020-01-01T00:00:00+08:00	2020-01-05T17:47:38+08:00	S105	Admiralty Road West	S105	103.79525	1.45817	2020-01-05T17:47:38+08:00	0.0	TB1 Rainfall 5 Minute Total F	mm
2020-01-01	2020-01-01T00:00:00+08:00	2020-01-05T17:47:38+08:00	S77	Alexandra Road	S77	103.8125	1.2937	2020-01-05T17:47:38+08:00	0.0	TB1 Rainfall 5 Minute Total F	mm
2020-01-01	2020-01-01T00:00:00+08:00	2020-01-05T17:47:38+08:00	S109	Ang Mo Kio Avenue 5	S109	103.8492	1.3764	2020-01-05T17:47:38+08:00	0.0	TB1 Rainfall 5 Minute Total F	mm
2020-01-01	2020-01-01T00:00:00+08:00	2020-01-05T17:47:38+08:00	S117	Banyan Road	S117	103.679	1.256	2020-01-05T17:47:38+08:00	0.0	TB1 Rainfall 5 Minute Total F	mm
2020-01-01	2020-01-01T00:00:00+08:00	2020-01-05T17:47:38+08:00	S64	Bukit Panjang Road	S64	103.7603	1.3824	2020-01-05T17:47:38+08:00	0.0	TB1 Rainfall 5 Minute Total F	mm
2020-01-01	2020-01-01T00:00:00+08:00	2020-01-05T17:47:38+08:00	S90	Bukit Timah Road	S90	103.8191	1.3191	2020-01-05T17:47:38+08:00	0.0	TB1 Rainfall 5 Minute Total F	mm
2020-01-01	2020-01-01T00:00:00+08:00	2020-01-05T17:47:38+08:00	S61	Chai Chee Street	S61	103.9217	1.323	2020-01-05T17:47:38+08:00	0.0	TB1 Rainfall 5 Minute Total F	mm
2020-01-01	2020-01-01T00:00:00+08:00	2020-01-05T17:47:38+08:00	S114	Choa Chu Kang Avenue 4	S114	103.73	1.38	2020-01-05T17:47:38+08:00	0.0	TB1 Rainfall 5 Minute Total F	mm
2020-01-01	2020-01-01T00:00:00+08:00	2020-01-05T17:47:38+08:00	S11	Choa Chu Kang Road	S11	103.6938	1.3746	2020-01-05T17:47:38+08:00	0.0	TB1 Rainfall 5 Minute Total F	mm
2020-01-01	2020-01-01T00:00:00+08:00	2020-01-05T17:47:38+08:00	S50	Clementi Road	S50	103.7768	1.3337	2020-01-05T17:47:38+08:00	0.0	TB1 Rainfall 5 Minute Total F	mm

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Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Date	date	Date (YYYY-MM-DD)	-	-
Timestamp	timestamp	Text	-	-
Update Timestamp	update_timestamp	Text	-	-
Station Id	station_id	Text	-	-
Station Name	station_name	Text	-	-
Station Device Id	station_device_id	Text	-	-
Location Longitude	location_longitude	Text	-	-
Location Latitude	location_latitude	Text	-	-
Reading Update Timestamp	reading_update_timestamp	Text	-	-
Reading Value	reading_value	Numeric	-	-