Solar Cooling - Climate Profiling Tool

This free tool for assessing local climate and weather conditions for adoption of solar cooling technology is provided to you by Purix.

Powered by weather data from the most recent calendar years, the tool makes a comprehensive amount of valuable data available at your fingertips, collected from thousands of weather stations across the globe.

Guidance:

Select a location of interest from the interactive map, or from the dropdown menu of countries and available weather stations.

Based on your prior knowledge or behavior of a specific building a the location selected, select the desired threshold outdoor temperature at which cooling is required.

Based on your selections, the Profiling Tool visualizes the number of hours per months, which requires cooling of the building, sorted by cooling during night hours, hours during the day with or without solar radiation.

The Profiling Tool also features an illustration of the outdoor temperature and relative humidity distribution curve at the selected location for the latest calendar year (descended order).

As a courtesy to visitors, the complete climate profile data is available for download, enabling access to historical weather data for more detailed building energy performance evaluations.