10.5676/DWD_GPCC/DAILY_V2025_100 (for 1.0° resolution)
10.5676/DWD_GPCC/DAILY_V2025_050 (for 0.5° resolution)



GPCC Precipitation Analysis Daily Version 2025 (at 0.5°, 1.0°): Daily Land-Surface Precipitation from Rain-Gauges built on GTS-based and Historic Data
Globally Gridded Daily Totals
variable precip (precipitation per grid cell) is available in the NetCDF file (for 0.5°, 1.0° resolution)

variable gauge (number of gauges per grid cell) is available in the NetCDF file (for 0.5°, 1.0° resolution)

variable gauge_int (number of gauges used by interpolation per grid cell) is available in the NetCDF file (for 0.5°, 1.0° resolution)

variable dist_int (mean distance of gauges used by interpolation per grid cell) is available in the NetCDF file (for 0.5°, 1.0° resolution)

variable err (YAMAMOTO interpolation error) is available in the NetCDF file (for 0.5°, 1.0° resolution)
[Yamamoto, J.K. An Alternative Measure of the Reliability of Ordinary Kriging Estimates Mathematical Geology, Springer, 2000, 32, 489-509]

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For 0.5° grid resolution:
Ziese, Markus; Finger, Peter; Rustemeier, Elke; Schirmeister, Zora (2026): GPCC Precipitation Analysis Daily Version 2025 at 0.5°: Daily Land-Surface Precipitation from Rain-Gauges built on GTS-based and Historic Data. DOI: 10.5676/DWD_GPCC/DAILY_V2025_050

For 1.0° grid resolution:
Ziese, Markus; Finger, Peter; Rustemeier, Elke; Schirmeister, Zora (2026): GPCC Precipitation Analysis Daily Version 2025 at 1.0°: Daily Land-Surface Precipitation from Rain-Gauges built on GTS-based and Historic Data. DOI: 10.5676/DWD_GPCC/DAILY_V2025_100
Ziese, Markus; Finger, Peter; Rustemeier, Elke; Schirmeister, Zora
Global Precipitation Climatology Centre (GPCC, http://gpcc.dwd.de/) at Deutscher Wetterdienst
2026
This is the GPCC Precipitation Analysis Daily Version 2025 (GPCC Daily) of daily global land-surface precipitation totals based on precipitation data provided by national meteorological and hydrological services, regional and global data collections as well as WMO GTS-data.
It is provided at a regular latitude/longitude grid with a spatial resolution of 0.5° and 1.0° and covers the time period from January 1982 to December 2025 (one year per file).
Relative precipitation anomalies at the stations (daily totals divided by monthly total) are interpolated by means of a modified SPHEREMAP scheme (Becker et al., 2013 (10.5194/essd-5-71-2013); Schamm et al., 2014 (10.5194/essd-6-49-2014)) and then superimposed on the GPCC Precipitation Analysis Monthly Version 2025 without climatological infilling.

This GPCC product is recommended to be used when the daily precipitation information is of highest importance, e.g. for analyses of extreme events and related statistics at daily resolution.
"Global gridded precipitation over land: a description of the new GPCC First Guess Daily product"
K. Schamm, M. Ziese, A. Becker, P. Finger, A. Meyer-Christoffer, U. Schneider, M. Schröder, and P. Stender
in Earth System Science Data, DOI: 10.5194/essd-6-49-2014

"Evaluating the hydrological cycle over land using the newly-corrected precipitation climatology from the Global Precipitation Climatology Centre (GPCC)"
U. Schneider, P. Finger, A. Meyer-Christoffer, E. Rustemeier, M. Ziese, and A. Becker
in Atmosphere, DOI: 10.3390/atmos8030052

"GPCC's new land surface precipitation climatology based on quality-controlled in situ data and its role in quantifying the global water cycle"
U. Schneider, A. Becker, P. Finger, A. Meyer-Christoffer, M. Ziese, B. Rudolf
in Theoretical and Applied Climatology, DOI: 10.1007/s00704-013-0860-x

"A description of the global land-surface precipitation data products of the Global Precipitation Climatology Centre with sample applications including centennial (trend) analysis from 1901-present"
A. Becker, P. Finger, A. Meyer-Christoffer, B. Rudolf, K. Schamm, U. Schneider, and M. Ziese
in Earth System Science Data, DOI: 10.5194/essd-5-71-2013

"The GPCC Drought Index - a new, combined and gridded global drought index"
M. Ziese, U. Schneider, A. Meyer-Christoffer, K. Schamm, J. Vido, P. Finger, P. Bissoli, S.Pietsch, A. Becker
in Earth System Science Data, DOI: 10.5194/essd-6-285-2014

Users are referred to the following gridded Global Precipitation Climate Centre (GPCC) products:

GPCC Precipitation Analysis Climatology 1951-2000 (GPCC_CLIMAT) with high representativeness, for application as a reference, and for utilization of the anomaly interpolation method.

GPCC Precipitation Analysis Monthly (GPCC_MONTHLY) with high accuracy, for, e.g., verification of models, or for analysis of historical global precipitation, or for research concerning the global water cycle, e.g., teleconnection analyses.

GPCC Precipitation Analysis Daily (GPCC_FD_D) is recommended to be used when the daily precipitation information is of highest importance, e.g. for analyses of extreme events and related statistics at daily resolution.

GPCC HOMPRA-Europe (HOMPRA-Europe) with homogenized precipitation data, suitable for trend analyses.

GPCC First Guess Monthly Product (GPCC_FG) with high timeliness, to be applied for, e.g., drought monitoring.

GPCC First Guess Daily Product (GPCC_FG_D) with high timeliness, to be applied for, e.g., drought monitoring.

GPCC Drought Index Product (GPCC_DI_M) with high timeliness, to be applied for, e.g., drought monitoring.

Please notice also the GPCC Download Gate with the current versions of all GPCC datasets and additional informations.
2025
1982/01 - 2025/12
Latitude: -90.0° to 90.0°; Longitude: -180.0° to 180.0°
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Dr. Markus Ziese, Head
Global Precipitation Climatology Centre (GPCC)
c/o Deutscher Wetterdienst
Postfach 10 04 65
D-63004 Offenbach/Main
GERMANY
e-mail: gpcc@dwd.de

Tel.: + 49 (0)69 / 8062-2973

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NetCDF Format (gzip compressed)	0.5° (.gz ~ 85 MByte)	1.0° (.gz ~ 30 MByte)
1982-2025 (NetCDF gzip compressed) and MD5 Checksum (text file)	download	download