Water data sources in South Africa
14 portals, APIs and datasets for South Africa, covering water quality, rainfall, environmental observations, precipitation and streamflow. 12 are free to use.
Research Institute (6)
- EFTEON Spatial Data (Expanded Freshwater & Terrestrial Environmental Observation Network)
South African research-infrastructure network of landscape-level platforms focused on coupled hydrological systems, providing spatial and freshwater observation datasets.
Free | South Africa
- Hydromodel SA Wiki - Data Sources (SAEON)
SAEON-hosted Hydromodel SA knowledge wiki cataloguing South African hydrological modelling data sources, including streamflow, rainfall, evaporation, soils and land-cover datasets...
Free | National
- SAEON Data Portal (catalogue)
Metadata catalogue and data portal for the South African Environmental Observation Network, indexing environmental, freshwater and hydrological datasets across South African...
Free | National
- SAEON Observations Database
South African Environmental Observation Network database of long-term environmental monitoring including coupled hydrological systems (rivers, water quality, soil moisture).
Free | National
- SAEON Observations Database WebAPI
Programmatic REST/OData API for the SAEON Observations Database, exposing sites, stations, instruments, sensors and verified time-series observations for South African...
Free | National
- WRC South Africa
Water Research Commission knowledge hub
Free | Southern Africa region
Government (2)
- FruitLook (Western Cape)
Satellite-based crop monitoring portal funded by the Western Cape Department of Agriculture providing weekly field-level data on actual evapotranspiration, biomass production...
Free | Regional
- South Africa RQIS
Water quality information
Free | 37580+ samples
Non-Profit (2)
- CMORPH High-Resolution Africa Rainfall (Digital Earth Africa CHIRPS)
Digital Earth Africa documentation and access specification for free, analysis-ready CHIRPS monthly and daily rainfall over Africa, queryable via the DE Africa Open Data Cube /...
Free | Africa
- Open Data South Africa Toolkit - Water & Climate Resources
Curated directory of South African and African water, sanitation and climate open-data resources, linking to hydrological station data, rainfall datasets, water-quality and...
Free | National
Research (2)
- Climatology and Agrohydrology data via Water Research Observatory
Water Research Observatory data hub providing climate and weather datasets for southern Africa, including the South African Atlas of Climatology and Agrohydrology (SAAACA) daily...
Free | National
- Water Resources of South Africa 2012 Study (WR2012)
Interactive web portal (Water Research Commission) providing patched observed, naturalised and present-day streamflow, catchment rainfall, water quality, reservoir records and...
Registration Required | National
Company (1)
- AfriGIS Weather API (SAWS data feeds)
Developer API exposing South African Weather Service data feeds (forecast, lightning, storms) as programmatic endpoints for South Africa, enabling integration of official...
Paid | National
Regional (1)
- Digital Earth Africa - Copernicus Global Land Lake Water Quality Specs
Digital Earth Africa documentation for the Copernicus Global Land lake water quality product (turbidity, trophic state index, chlorophyll proxies) derived from Sentinel-3/OLCI and...
Free | Africa
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