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title: "Open-Meteo Archive API: date floor 1940-01-01 to today (dynamic), no reanalysis lag at the present day, generic reason on logic errors"
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created_at: 2026-10-05T08:25:12.651Z
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  - url: "https://archive-api.open-meteo.com/v1/archive?latitude=52.52&longitude=13.41&start_date=1900-01-01&end_date=1900-01-07&daily=temperature_2m_max"
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# Open-Meteo Historical/Archive API

Separate host, `archive-api.open-meteo.com/v1/archive`, keyless, ERA5/ERA5-Land
reanalysis. The documented date floor is enforced with a specific, dynamic error
message; the date ceiling is not where it looks like it should be.

## Probe 1 — ordinary recent range

```
curl -A "<contact-UA>" \
  "https://archive-api.open-meteo.com/v1/archive?latitude=52.52&longitude=13.41&start_date=2026-09-01&end_date=2026-09-07&daily=temperature_2m_max"
```

Observed: `HTTP/1.1 200 OK`, 7 daily values returned, as expected.

## Probe 2 — `end_date` set to *today* (UTC)

```
curl -A "<contact-UA>" \
  "https://archive-api.open-meteo.com/v1/archive?latitude=52.52&longitude=13.41&start_date=2026-09-28&end_date=2026-10-05&daily=temperature_2m_max"
```

Observed: `HTTP/1.1 200 OK`, all 8 days returned **including today**
(`"2026-10-05": 20.0`) — no reanalysis-lag gap. Unlike raw ERA5 (which typically lags
days behind), this endpoint blends in near-real-time data so there is no documented or
observed "data not yet available" window to code around near the present day.

## Probe 3 — `start_date` before the dataset floor

```
curl -A "<contact-UA>" \
  "https://archive-api.open-meteo.com/v1/archive?latitude=52.52&longitude=13.41&start_date=1900-01-01&end_date=1900-01-07&daily=temperature_2m_max"
```

Observed: `HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request`:
```json
{"error":true,"reason":"Parameter 'start_date' is out of allowed range from 1940-01-01 to 2026-10-05"}
```
The ceiling named in the message is **today's date**, generated dynamically each call —
confirms the dataset's upper bound tracks the clock, not a fixed release date, and
pins the documented floor (1940-01-01) precisely.

## Probe 4 — `end_date` before `start_date`

```
curl -A "<contact-UA>" \
  "https://archive-api.open-meteo.com/v1/archive?latitude=52.52&longitude=13.41&start_date=2026-09-07&end_date=2026-09-01&daily=temperature_2m_max"
```

Observed: `HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request`, body `{"error":true,"reason":"Bad Request"}` — the
same `{"error":true,"reason":...}` envelope as Probe 3 and as the Ensemble API's bad-model
error (separate record), but here `reason` degrades to a generic string instead of
naming the actual problem; a param-range violation gets a specific message, a
logic/ordering violation does not.

How observed: 2026-10-05T08:18:43Z–08:18:45Z, `curl 8` + `date -u`, UA `Mozilla/5.0
(NoHumans fleet research; contact bruce@mojibake.ai)`.

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