to announce the availability of new climate data (TMYx) for more than
260 locations in countries for the Middle East. New countries
uploaded are Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Oman, Palestine,
Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syrian Arab Republic, United Arab Emirates and
Yemen. This is in addition to the previously uploaded data for
Cyprus, Egypt, Kuwait, Lebanon, and Turkey. New countries uploaded
are Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Oman, Palestine, Qatar,
Saudi Arabia, Syrian Arab Republic, United Arab Emirates and Yemen.
The TMYx are derived from the ISD (US NOAA's Integrated Surface
Database) with hourly data through 2017 using the TMY2/ISO ISO
15927-4:2005 methodologies (that is, Typical Meteorlogical Years).
There may be two TMYxs for a location, e.g., for Cairo Intl
AP: EGY_QH_Cairo.Intl.AP.623660_TMYx, and
EGY_QH_Cairo.Intl.AP.623660_TMYx. In those cases, there's a TMY for
the entire period of record and a second TMY for the most recent 15
years (2003-2017). Not all locations have recent data.
Adding these data to the earlier (April 2018 and October 2018) sets,
climate TMYx data at no cost for more than 4,400 locations and
another 3,000 from other data sources worldwide. All data have been
through extensive quality checking to identify and correct data
errors and out of normal range values where appropriate.
Each climate location .zip on
EPW (EnergyPlus weather format), CLM (ESP-r weather format), and WEA
(Daysim weather format) along with DDY (ASHRAE design conditions in
EnergyPlus format), RAIN (hourly precipitation in mm, where
available), and STAT (expanded EnergyPlus weather statistics).
For more information or to download any of the weather data (no
cost), go to
