A collation of historical weather data derived from a multi-year time series selected to present the unique weather phenomena with annual averages that are consistent with long term averages.
CLOUD AND IRRADIANCE TRACKING
Tracking the world's clouds in the finest detail
Designed for Solar, from the ground up. Never rely on generic weather model data again. Solcast's real time and forecast data tracks and forecasts real clouds at a resolution of 1-2km and 5 minutes. Our irradiance and PV power data is updated every 5 to 15 minutes. Aerosol and albedo effects are explicitly treated.
INTEGRATE
Integrate directly with your PV software, or upload with multiple file format options
Solcast data is available directly in PVSyst, SAM, PlantPredict and PV*Sol. Support for other softwares via industry standard data formats.
DATA ACCESS
Multiple probabilistic scenarios available for due diligence and solar resource assessment
Direct API download for TMY P50 data. TMY PXX scenarios (P75, P90, P95) downloads through the Solcast API Toolkit. Multiple file types supported (CSV, PVsyst, TMY3, SAM).
VALIDATION
Dataset supported by independent global validation
The data has low uncertainty and a quantified error range, making the data suitable for resource assessment, yield analysis, financial modelling, and any application requiring precision irradiance data.
TMY Data Specifications
Geographic coverage | Global, except for ocean and polar regions. |
Temporal coverage | 2007 to 2018 |
Temporal resolution | 60 minutes (period-mean values) |
Spatial resolution | 2km (irradiance and cloud parameters, over all non-polar continental areas and nearby islands) 27km (other parameters, and polar or remote oceanic regions) |
Pxx (Probability of exceedance) | P50, P75, P90, P95 |
Data parameters | The following data parameters are available.
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Data access | Via the Solcast Web Toolkit & Solcast API |
Download wait time | Web Toolkit: typically 5 minutes API: less than 100ms |
File formats | CSV, JSON |
Data formats | Solcast standard, PVsyst, SAM, TMY3 |
Time zone | UTC (default for Solcast), longitudinal (default for SAM, PVsyst, TMY), or user-set |