Water data sources in Australia

Rainfall deficiencies analysis using deciles methodology with historical comparison since 1900

Free | Continental Australia

National flood forecasting and warning service with real-time river and rainfall data

Free | All Australian states and territories

Australian water monitoring

Free | 3500+ stations

Primary data centre for the Australian Antarctic Program hosting ~2,000 Southern Ocean and Antarctic datasets including CTD water temperature/salinity, oceanographic and...

Free | Antarctica / Southern Ocean

Australian Gridded Climate Data v2 monthly precipitation totals (~5 km), the Bureau of Meteorology's official analysis dataset for Australia from 1900, with metadata and access...

Free | Australia

Australian federal, state, and territory PFAS contamination monitoring data under the PFAS NEMP 3.0 framework, including investigation sites, environmental samples, and...

Free | National

Historical and recent rainfall maps with percentiles and anomalies

Free | Australia nationwide

BOM hydroclimate forecasts and projections platform

Free | Australia nationwide forecasts

Australian streamflow data visualization and trend analysis portal

Free | Australian reference station network

Western Australia's spatial data catalogue (SLIP) hosting water, hydrography, marine and environmental datasets including AODN ocean data and state water resource layers.

Free | Western Australia

Australian wetlands mapped under the Australian National Aquatic Ecosystem (ANAE) classification framework, downloadable as GIS layers through the national open-data catalogue.

Free | Australian Capital Territory

Western Australia open data catalogue filtered to water-themed geospatial datasets, including DWER water information sites and surface/groundwater monitoring locations.

Free | Western Australia

Digital Earth Australia product combining Landsat and Sentinel-2 satellite imagery with tidal modelling to map annual shoreline positions and rates of coastal change around...

Free | Entire Australian coastline, 1988-present

Digital Earth Australia product suite mapping Australia's intertidal zones using Landsat and Sentinel-2 with tidal modelling for elevation, extent, and exposure datasets for...

Free | Australian coastline intertidal zones

Digital Earth Australia surface water observations classifying every Landsat pixel as wet, dry, or invalid for all of Australia from 1986 to present, formerly known as Water...

Free | All of mainland Australia and Tasmania, 1986-present

Digital Earth Australia product mapping and monitoring 300,000+ open waterbodies across Australia using 30+ years of Landsat imagery with polygon outlines and surface area time...

Free | 300,000+ Australian waterbodies, 1986-present

Environment Protection Authority Victoria water-quality monitoring data including the Marine Fixed Site Network for Port Phillip Bay, Western Port and the Gippsland Lakes...

Free | Regional

Geoscience Australia product catalogue (eCat) record for the Australian Groundwater Hydrochemistry Data Collection, providing national groundwater chemistry data with metadata and...

Free | Australia

National spatial database of groundwater information with more than 850,000 bore locations and associated lithology, bore construction and hydrostratigraphy logs plus 2D/3D...

Free | Australia

Geoscience Australia's catalogue of OGC and Esri web services (WMS, WFS, WCS, REST) exposing fundamental national datasets including groundwater, surface hydrology and the...

Free | Australia

Queensland registered water bore database published on the Australian Government CKAN portal: bore locations, water levels, construction, strata logs and water quality.

Free | Queensland

Melbourne Water's ArcGIS open data hub publishing water storage reservoirs, supply service reservoirs, waterways, catchments and drainage assets with download and feature service...

Free | Greater Melbourne

Australia's largest river system comprehensive data portal

Free | Murray-Darling Basin

Comprehensive water data for Australia's Murray-Darling Basin including river flows, storage levels, water trade data, and environmental water delivery tracking for Australia's...

Free | Murray-Darling Basin

ABARES dataset detailing water availability, market outcomes, irrigation activity (area sown and water use by crop), climatic conditions, and commodity prices for 25 catchments in...

Free | Regional

NT Government water data portal providing latest water levels, river flow/height, rainfall, tides, water quality and groundwater data collected by the Water Resources division.

Free | Northern Territory, Australia

NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water hub for surface water and groundwater data, including telemetered bores, water accounting dashboards and...

Free | New South Wales, Australia

New South Wales government floodplains flood data portal providing access to flood studies, flood risk management plans and associated geospatial flood data for the state.

Free | New South Wales

New South Wales State Emergency Service flood data portal providing flood study reports, flood models and flood mapping data across NSW catchments, available for download.

Free | New South Wales

WaterNSW real-time water portal delivering near real-time river level and flow, dam/storage levels, groundwater bore levels and water quality from over 1300 monitoring stations...

Free | New South Wales, Australia

Real-time groundwater bore water-level monitoring data for New South Wales, served through the NSW SEED (Sharing and Enabling Environmental Data) catalogue.

Free | New South Wales, Australia

NSW SEED environmental data portal dataset providing real-time surface water quality and monitoring data for storages and rivers, with metadata and links to live feeds.

Free | New South Wales, Australia

New South Wales government water data platform providing real-time dam storage levels, river flow data, water quality monitoring, and water sharing plan information for NSW water...

Free | New South Wales

Northern Territory open data dataset listing water monitoring site locations tracking tides, river flow, river height, water quality, rainfall and groundwater across the NT.

Free | Northern Territory, Australia

Queensland Reconstruction Authority flood mapping resources including the FloodCheck interactive map and regional flood study extents to understand flood behaviour across...

Free | Queensland

Queensland's water monitoring portal providing real-time and historical data on streamflow, dam levels, water quality, and groundwater from monitoring stations across the state.

Free | Queensland State

Queensland Government registered water bore database with bore location, water levels, construction details, strata logs and water quality from government and private bores.

Free | Queensland, Australia

Queensland Government open data collection of ambient surface water quality monitoring datasets across the state, downloadable via the CKAN open data portal.

Free | Queensland, Australia

Queensland Government CKAN open data portal datasets for the water monitoring network - surface water gauging stations, ambient water quality, hydrographic features and historical...

Free | Queensland

Queensland Government open data dataset providing archived time-series surface water, groundwater, rainfall and water quality data plus discrete water quality records for state...

Free | Queensland, Australia

Queensland Government environment department portal providing water-quality monitoring data and assessments for waterways and groundwater, compared against locally derived...

Free | Regional

NSW Sharing and Enabling Environmental Data portal entry for the Directory of Important Wetlands in Australia (DIWA), describing nationally important wetlands with spatial layers.

Free | New South Wales / Australia

Seqwater daily dam/reservoir storage levels and trends for the SEQ Water Grid (Wivenhoe, Somerset, North Pine, Hinze and others), with historical level data.

Free | South East Queensland

Continuous daily climate data for Australia from 1889 to yesterday across 19 variables including derived evapotranspiration (Morton/FAO56) and synthetic evaporation, suited to...

Free | Australia

South Australia's water monitoring data including surface water flows, groundwater levels, water quality, and Murray River data from the Department for Environment and Water.

Free | South Australia

Victorian Government open-data record for streamflow water gauging, providing current flow, flow as a percentage of long-term average and gauging-station locations from Victoria's...

Free | Victoria

Victorian government's water monitoring portal providing real-time and historical streamflow, water level, water quality, and groundwater data from monitoring stations across...

Free | Victoria State

Data.Vic CKAN dataset of monthly water storage levels for 64 Victorian storages from January 2010 onward, downloadable as machine-readable tables.

Free | Victoria

Open-access groundwater portal for Victoria, Australia, holding information on ~300,000 bores plus downloadable statewide products such as Depth to Watertable and Groundwater...

Free | Subnational

Western Australia Department of Water and Environmental Regulation self-service GIS portal providing surface water and groundwater quality/quantity data from ~3000 bores and 300+...

Free | Western Australia

Nationally consistent watercourse level and discharge data from ~3,500 measurement stations across Australia, published by the Bureau of Meteorology and catalogued on data.gov.au...

Free | Australia

Tasmania's water data portal run by NRE Tas in partnership with Hydro Tasmania and Tasmanian Irrigation, providing latest readings for ~6,000 datasets across surface water and...

Free | State (Tasmania)

Tasmania's Department of Natural Resources and Environment water data hub, partnering with Hydro Tasmania and Tasmanian Irrigation, providing roughly 6000 datasets for surface and...

Free | Tasmania, Australia

Australian Water Observations from Space surface-water summary product, a gridded Landsat-derived dataset indicating where surface water has been observed across mainland...

Free | Australia

Australian Bureau of Statistics release on agricultural water use including irrigation water applied by crop and region, increasingly derived from satellite evapotranspiration...

Free | National

South Australia's primary water information portal hosting groundwater and surface water data, water allocation and spatial data through interactive maps, reports, downloadable...

Free | State (South Australia)

WaterNSW storage levels and historical data for 760+ water sources/dams across New South Wales via the WaterInsights platform, with interactive charts and data downloads.

Free | New South Wales

Developer API portal providing programmatic incremental access to time-series hydrometric (water level, flow rate) and water quality data for water monitoring stations across all...

Free | New South Wales, Australia

Water resources data for Western Australia including groundwater level monitoring, surface water flows, water allocation plans, and water quality data from the state's monitoring...

Free | Western Australia

Western Australian Government open-data catalogue of groundwater datasets including water table elevation, depth to groundwater and aquifer mapping for areas such as the Gnangara...

Free | Subnational

THREDDS catalogue serving eReefs hydrodynamic and biogeochemical model outputs for the Great Barrier Reef - temperature, salinity, currents, nutrients, sediment and ocean colour...

Free | Great Barrier Reef

Open gateway to Australian marine and climate science data from IMOS and partners, with catalogue search and download of ocean temperature, salinity, currents and other variables...

Free | Australia and Southern Ocean

CSIRO's institutional research data repository, hydrology category - field/lab water sampling results, catchment monitoring (e.g.

Free | National

CSIRO's research data repository hosting water-related collections (water quality, evapotranspiration, hydrology) served via HTTP download, THREDDS/OPeNDAP and WMS/WCS web...

Free | Australia

Data repository publishing tropical north Australia and Great Barrier Reef research datasets - water quality, reef monitoring, cumulative impact and catchment data, with map and...

Free | Tropical Australia / GBR

IMOS OceanCurrent service delivering near real-time maps and data of sea surface temperature, ocean currents, altimetry and chlorophyll around Australia.

Free | Australian waters

ANUClimate 2.0 daily and monthly 0.01 degree gridded rainfall, temperature and related climate variables for Australia, 1970-present, with full metadata in the OneClimate research...

Free | Australia

ANUClimate 0.01 degree gridded climate surfaces for the Australian continent (precipitation and derived rain-day metrics) produced with ANUSPLIN thin-plate splines, served through...

Free | Australia

Northern Australia Climate Program Australian Combined Drought Indicator (SPI, soil moisture, ET, NDVI) drought monitor, served as an interactive map of national drought status by...

Free | Australia

Interoperable web-GIS that federates groundwater bore, lithology, water level and quality data from disparate Victorian and national sources.

Free | Victoria

Australian Institute of Marine Science conducts microplastic tows around the Great Barrier Reef integrated into the Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS) National Reference...

Free | Tropical marine waters, Great Barrier Reef region

Rainfall Estimates on a Gridded Network (REGEN) v1.0: global land-based 1 degree daily gauge-interpolated precipitation (1950-2016), hosted on NCI and catalogued in Research Data...

Free | 1950-2016, 1 degree daily

REGEN long-term-station variant: global 1 degree daily precipitation interpolated only from gauges with at least 40 complete years, for trend and extremes analysis, via Research...

Free | 1950-2016, 1 degree daily

Hydro Tasmania water-information service providing river flow, lake level, rainfall and inflow data for Tasmanian catchments used in hydro-power operations, with current and...

Free | Tasmania

Icon Water's weekly-updated water storage data for the ACT's dams (Canberra region), showing reservoir volumes and percentage full verified against Bureau of Meteorology data.

Free | Australian Capital Territory

Australia's national hydrological modelling platform (eWater Source) used by all Australian governments to model water resources, allocations, water accounting, and balance...

Limited | National