WMO station index number

ID wmo_station_index

DatatypeNot PIIidentifierDraft

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Five-digit index number of a land meteorological station in SYNOP and other WMO code forms: a 2-digit block number for a country or region followed by a 3-digit station number. Leading zeros are significant. WMO publishes the list in WMO-No. 9, Volume A. Numbers that repeat one figure five times or end in 000 or 999 are not assigned; the regexp does not exclude them, so it is weak without column context.

Categories: Environment, Geographic identifiers
Countries: Global (not tied to a country)
Languages: Common to most languages
Wikidata: P9737
Quality: 85/100 · missing: translation, detector coverage
Metacrafter rules: no detection rule yet
Supported by tools: no tool record lists this type yet

Regular expression

^\d{5}$

Python re syntax.

Examples

Value	Description
10962	Hohenpeissenberg, Germany
06702	La Dole, Switzerland
74492	Blue Hill Observatory, United States
6036 invalid	Four digits instead of five

Sources

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