Blitzortung.org Data Archive
Welcome to Limaps.org, the data archive of blitzortung.org



Limaps.org is the data archive of Blitzortung.org. Here you will find the strike positions calculated from the data from the detectors. We only store the results of the calculations and not the raw data that is sent from the detectors to the servers. There is no guarantee that the sources of the electromagnetic signals from the lightning strikes are near the calculated positions. For each calculated position we only guarantee the following statement.

Let p be the stike position calculated from the signal time stamps t1,...,tk of k signals received by k distinct detectors. If p were the source of an electromagnetic discharge, then the electromagnetic pulse would arrive at the detectors at times t1,...,tk.

Blitzortung.org is not an official authority for lightning or thunderstorm data. The data is provided only for private and entertainment purposes. The project Blitzortung.org is merely a voluntary leisure activity.

It is not allowed to use the data of Blitzortung.org for storm warning systems, for plausibility checks of overvoltage damages, or risk analysis for precautionary protection of high-quality technology, even if the data is not obtained directly from our site but from third-party websites.

The use of our lightning data is allowed only to the participants of the project or to those we explicitly have allowed it.

We are not liable for the completeness, timeliness, quality and accuracy of the information on our website. We are not responsible for damages, resulting from trusting the content of our website or its use. This also holds if the data is obtained from third-party websites.


The allocation of regions to containers is shown in the table below.

regions of containes
container region area region number
C00--
C01Europs 11
C02Ozeania 12
C03North America 13
C04Asia 14
C05Africa 17
C06South America 15
C07Japan 19
C08--
C09--
C10North America 213
C11--
C12--
C13--
C14--
C15--
C16World 115
C17Japan 214
C18Europe 211
C19Europe 312


The data is available in different formats, as SQLite data files, as JSON data lines, as maps, and live via special links and websocket servers.