Water data sources in France

National portal for groundwater data in France, providing access to piezometric levels, groundwater quality measurements, and hydrogeological information from thousands of...

Free | National

National hydrogeological database with groundwater monitoring and state assessment by BRGM

Free | France nationwide groundwater systems

French national open-data dataset of metropolitan hydrometric stations (locations and attributes for ~5,000 river gauging stations), downloadable and reusable under open licence...

Free | Metropolitan France

French Biodiversity Office (OFB) geocatalogue, successor host of data.eaufrance, providing reference water datasets, water-body delineations and monitoring metadata for the French...

Free | France

Main water information service portal facilitating access to public water information in France

Free | France nationwide water and aquatic environments

French national hydrometry web API delivering near-real-time water height and discharge from ~5,000 stations plus elaborated daily/monthly mean discharge back to 1900 for...

Free | France

Near real-time access to all water-related data in France through centralized API platform

Free | France nationwide

France's national database for surface water quality data including chemical, biological, and ecological measurements from rivers, lakes, and coastal waters across the country.

Free | National

French National Service for Water Data and Reference Datasets Management, building water reference datasets for French Water Information System (SIE)

Free | France nationwide

Sample of model-ready hydro-meteorological datasets extracted from the CAMELS-FR database: metadata and catchment-scale aggregated time series for a pool of French catchments...

Free | French catchments subset of CAMELS-FR

CAMELS-FR: daily streamflow (≥30 years over 1970-2021) and 11 catchment-scale daily climate variables (from SAFRAN reanalysis and Banque HYDRO) plus catchment attributes spanning...

Free | 654 catchments (France)

AERIS/ESPRI distribution of the FROGS daily 1 degree gridded precipitation database combining rain-gauge, satellite and reanalysis products in standardized NetCDF for climate and...

Free | Multi-product daily 1 degree

LEGOS HydroWEB service providing water level time series for thousands of river virtual stations and over 150 lakes worldwide, derived from multi-mission satellite radar altimetry...

Free | Global

GLOSS GNSS data assembly centre providing high-quality continuous tide-gauge sea-level and GNSS vertical-land-motion time series for sea-level research worldwide.

Free | Global

Theia (Data Terra) catalogue distributing operational satellite-altimetry-derived river and lake water level, extent and storage products (HySOpe processing chain), updated within...

Free | Global

Sentinel-3 altimetry-derived water level demonstration product for ~1219 lakes and reservoirs worldwide produced with the CNES Lake Processing Prototype, distributed via the Theia...

Free | Global

Theia/Data Terra catalogue collection distributing SWOT KaRIn Level-2 High Rate raster products (250 m) of water surface elevation and extent, mirrored by CNES alongside NASA...

Free | Global

French Theia/Data Terra land surfaces catalogue exposing satellite water products: Hydroweb altimetric river/lake water levels and storage, Sentinel-2 surface watermasks, and...

Free | Global

RTE (French transmission operator) open data catalog publishing weekly aggregated hydraulic stock (fill level of lake-type hydro reservoirs) in MWh, downloadable and via API after...

Limited | France

LEGOS/CNES Hydroweb provides satellite altimetry-derived water levels for approximately 1,000 lakes, reservoirs, and 11,000 river reaches worldwide, using multi-mission data since...

Registration Required | Global

French SMOS ground-segment centre (CNES/IFREMER) distributing SMOS L3/L4 soil moisture and the SMOS-IC research soil moisture & vegetation optical depth product on a 25 km EASEv2...

Free | Global