Download of UTD Air Quality data

E1a/E2a download service

Recommende option - Download of validated and official (E1a) and up-to-date (E2a) air quality data: https://eeadmz1-downloads-webapp.azurewebsites.net/
Old service to be discontinued: http://discomap.eea.europa.eu/map/fme/AirQualityExport.htm

Direct downloads

Direct downloads are the easiest and fasted download option.
Files are recreated every 30 minutes and contains 48 hours of data. You can build the URL with this simple pattern:
//eeadmz1batchservice02.blob.core.windows.net/airquality-e-extract/$(Country)_$(Pollutant).csv

A list of available combinations of countrycode and pollutants can be downloaded from this url: https://eeadmz1batchservice02.blob.core.windows.net/airquality-e-extract/Inventory.csv

Some examples:

• NO2 for spain:
  https://eeadmz1batchservice02.blob.core.windows.net/airquality-e-extract/ES_NO2.csv
• PM10 for Denmark:
  https://eeadmz1batchservice02.blob.core.windows.net/airquality-e-extract/DK_PM10.csv

Data are provided for all the available pollutants in a country.

Python sample for downloading

To ease the download, feel free to use the Python script below as inspiration. #Python sample for download of air quality up-to-date files #The Pyton script shows a simple sample how the pre-processed CSV files can be downloaded. #EEA takes no responsibility of the script and the code is provided 'as is', without warranty of any kind. import requests print ('-----------------------------------------------------------------------') # Set download url (updated 02/05/2024) ServiceUrl = "https://eeadmz1batchservice02.blob.core.windows.net/airquality-e-extract" # Countries to download # Note: List is not complete countries = ['SE','DE','ES'] # Pollutant to be downloaded pollutants = ['C6H6','PM10','CO','NO2','SO2','O3','PM2.5'] for country in countries: for pollutant in pollutants: fileName = "%s_%s.csv" % (country, pollutant) downloadFile = '%s/%s_%s.csv' % (ServiceUrl, country, pollutant) #Download and save to local path print('Downloading: %s' % downloadFile ) file = requests.get(downloadFile).content output = open(fileName, 'wb') output.write(file) output.close() print ('Saved locally as: %s ' % fileName) print ('-----') print ('Download finished')

On demand extracts

The old download services are being replace by this service available since April 2024: Air Quality Download Service

Note: Old service to be discontinued: http://discomap.eea.europa.eu/map/fme/AirQualityExport.htm

Service status

Current status of data delivery: https://tableau-public.discomap.eea.europa.eu/views/Airquality_E2a_monitoring/DashboardE2a?%3Aiid=1&%3Aembed=y&%3AisGuestRedirectFromVizportal=y&%3Adisplay_count=n&%3AshowVizHome=n&%3Aorigin=viz_share_link

Metadata are available from this viewer - which also offers download: https://discomap.eea.europa.eu/App/AQViewer/index.html?fqn=Airquality_Dissem.b2g.measurements

Old metadata file discontinued as of April 2024: PanEuropean_metadata.csv

More information on air quality: https://aqportal.discomap.eea.europa.eu/

Support contact: aqutd.helpdesk@eionet.europa.eu