- Go to http://climate.weather.gc.ca/.
- In Step 1, select “Daily”.
- In Step 2, choose a year in which there could be some daily data.
- In Step 3, input the station name
- Hit the “Search” Button.
- If more than one station is given, select the station you want to use.
- Then you will be navigated to the daily data report page.
The address of this page would be in following format:
A key named StationID will be found in this address. The value for this key is the station ID we need. In this case, the station ID is 29886.
Michael Yu 
I think the admin of this website is genuinely working hard for his web site, because here every data is quality based information.
Good points. They may change the protocal without any notice.
How can I find these StationIDs for all major Canadian cities. These are not WMO IDs for sure. This is very confusing as I can’t find StationIDs anywhere.
Can you help me with these StationsIDs ??
Thanks in advance 🙂
Hello friend,
The station I’m using could be found by download the station.csv file in the zip file. The download link is https://environment-canada-climate-data-reader.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/Doc/Versions/ECReader1.1.zip. That’s all the stations. You may need to choose the ones you want from them.
Please let me know if this information is enough.
Regards
Zhiqiang
This is very helpful – thank-you for posting this. It seems the link to the station.csv file has expired (https://environment-canada-climate-data-reader.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/Doc/Versions/ECReader1.1.zip), but the approach suggested for looking in the URL still works.
thanks
Peter