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Environment Agency Hydrology Data API

Monitoring stations, measures and readings for river flow, river level, groundwater level, rainfall and water-quality parameters (dissolved oxygen, fluorescent dissolved organic matter, blue-green algae, turbidity, chlorophyll, conductivity, temperature, ammonium, nitrate and pH), at 15-minute and daily resolution depending on the parameter. The reference says the service "provides data from nearly eight thousand monitoring stations, and includes sub-daily (typically 15 min) resolution time series as well as wider range of daily time series" and "provides access to over four billion rows of readings." Responses are available as JSON, CSV, HTML, RDF, Turtle and GeoJSON, and a batch API queues larger requests.

Open environment.data.gov.uk
Signal Scoredraft model
95
Access
No key · none
20
Licence clarity
OGL-UK-3.0 · terms linked
20
Evidence
3 source links checked
15
Freshness
verified 2026-11-09
20
Documentation
docs · limits · coverage · attribution
20

// Terms and limits

Access
none
Free tier
Free, no key or registration. Row limits apply per call: "The API calls that return readings data have a soft limit of 100,000 rows per-call which can be overridden by setting a _limit parameter." and "However, we current set a hard limit of 2,000,000 rows, which cannot be overridden." A batch API queues larger requests.
Rate limits
No numeric request rate is stated. For bulk downloads the Agency asks: "Ideally limit to one request in flight at a time, waiting for each request to finish before issuing the next." and reserves "the right to enforce limits on the number of concurrent requests (per IP address or identifiable group of IP addresses)".
Licence
OGL-UK-3.0terms
Licence note
The licence is published inside the API: the reference says "The metadata description included in JSON and RDF results provides information about the API, such as the publisher and applicable licence.", and the stations response read on 2026-11-09 gave "licenseName": "OGL 3" with a nationalarchives.gov.uk Open Government Licence v3.0 link (the link in the response body is in plain http; Signal Lab links to the https address). The service's own footer says "All content is available under the Open Government Licence v3.0, except where otherwise stated".
Attribution
Required under the Open Government Licence v3.0; the reference page does not give a specific attribution statement for the hydrology service.

// Evidence · verified 2026-11-09

  1. 01environment.data.gov.uk/hydrology/doc/reference
  2. 02environment.data.gov.uk/hydrology/id/stations.json?_limit=1
  3. 03www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/

// Good for

weatherhydrologyukapiopen-datahistorical-data

// The same record, for agents

Request · get_entry
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  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "get_entry",
    "arguments": {
      "slug": "ea-hydrology-api"
    }
  }
}
Reply · selected fields
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  "name": "Environment Agency Hydrology Data API",
  "slug": "ea-hydrology-api",
  "domain": "Weather",
  "type": "Dataset",
  "badge": "Free",
  "auth": "none",
  "rateLimits": "No numeric request rate is stated. For bulk downloads the Agency asks: \"Ideally limit to one request in flight at a time, waiting for each request to finish before issuing the next.\" and reserves \"the right to enforce limits on the number of concurrent requests (per IP address or identifiable group of IP addresses)\".",
  "license": "OGL-UK-3.0",
  "licenseUrl": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "lastVerified": "2026-11-09",
  "evidenceUrls": [
    "https://environment.data.gov.uk/hydrology/doc/reference",
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    "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/"
  ],
  "tasks": [
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    "hydrology",
    "uk",
    "api",
    "open-data",
    "historical-data"
  ],
  "providerUrl": "https://environment.data.gov.uk/hydrology/doc/reference"
}

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