Several cities in the UK have established open data portals to make a variety of datasets accessible to the public. Open data portals serve as platforms for sharing government data, fostering transparency, and encouraging innovation in various sectors. Most of these portals have a section dedicated to environmental or climate-related data.
Accessing the data
Here is a selection of open data portals at the city level. Each will have different methods of accessing the data.
- Birmingham – Birmingham City Observatory
- Bristol – Open Data Bristol
- Cambridge and Peterborough – Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Insight: Open Data Portal
- Edinburgh – City of Edinburgh Council Open Spatial Data Portal
- Glasgow – Glasgow Open Data Hub
- Hull – Hull City Council Open Data
- Leeds – Data Mill North and Leeds Observatory
- London – London Datastore
- Manchester – Manchester City Council Open Data
- Nottingham – Nottingham Insight and Open Data Nottingham
- Oxford – OxOpenData
- Plymouth – DATA Plymouth
- Sheffield – Sheffield City Council Open Data
- Southampton – Southampton Data Observatory
- York – York Open Data