# NDBC Historical Archive Service

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/ndbc/historical-archive-service/  
**Provider:** NDBC — National Data Buoy Center — https://apis.io/providers/ndbc/  
**Base URL:** https://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/data/historical  
**Documentation:** https://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/faq/archive.shtml

NDBC Historical Archive Service is one of 5 APIs that [NDBC — National Data Buoy Center](https://apis.io/providers/ndbc/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Historical, Archive, Climate, Quality-Controlled, and Annual. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation.

Provides quality-controlled historical observations from NDBC stations organized as annual files (prior years) and monthly files (current year) accessible at https://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/data/historical/. Measurement categories mirror the real-time service: standard meteorology, continuous winds, spectral wave data, ADCP currents, and oceanographic parameters. Data formats and column definitions are identical to the real-time files except that missing values use variable counts of nines (999, 9999, 99.0) rather than MM. A web-based historical observation search is available at histsearch.php and climatic summaries at climate.php.

## Machine-readable artifacts (5)

- **Documentation** — https://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/faq/archive.shtml
- **Documentation** — https://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/faq/measdes.shtml
- **BaseURL** — https://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/data/historical/
- **Documentation** — https://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/histsearch.php
- **Documentation** — https://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/climate.php

## Other NDBC — National Data Buoy Center APIs (4)

- [NDBC Real-Time Data Service](https://apis.io/apis/ndbc/realtime-data-service/)
- [NDBC Latest Observations Service](https://apis.io/apis/ndbc/latest-observations-service/)
- [NDBC THREDDS/OPeNDAP NetCDF Service](https://apis.io/apis/ndbc/thredds-netcdf-service/)
- [NDBC HF Radar Surface Currents Service](https://apis.io/apis/ndbc/hf-radar-service/)

## Tags

Historical, Archive, Climate, Quality-Controlled, Annual, Monthly

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