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Guide - Download a year of data for a location.

This guide shows you how to download a relatively large amount of measurement data, one year of hourly measurements from a single location, from the Open Data on AWS bucket.

Run the following command to copy all data from location 2178 during the year 2020 to a local directory named data:

Terminal window
aws s3 cp \
--no-sign-request \
--recursive \
s3://openaq-data-archive/records/csv.gz/locationid=2178/year=2020/ \
data