Eaufrance / Office français de la biodiversité
Eaufrance — the French water information system
Eaufrance / Office français de la biodiversité is the government department or statistical office for France. It operates the national water information portal, publishing river flow from the Hydroportail, groundwater levels from ADES, surface and groundwater quality, abstraction volumes by use, and the water agency basin data through the Hub’Eau open APIs.
Rights
- Commercial reuse
- Yes
- Redistribution
- Yes
- Derivative use
- Yes
- Attribution required
- YesData from Eaufrance / Office français de la biodiversité, used under Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab).
- Terms last checked
- 23 August 2026
Access and coverage
- Publisher
- Eaufrance / Office français de la biodiversité
- Website
- https://www.eaufrance.fr/
- Geographic coverage
- France
- Temporal coverage
- 1960 onwards
- Update frequency
- daily
- Formats
- csv, json, api, geojson
- Bulk download
- Available
- Registration required
- No
- Cost to Hydrionis
- Free
- Domains
- river flow, groundwater, quality, withdrawal, chemistry
Notes
Hub’Eau is one of the strongest national open water APIs in Europe, exposing drinking water quality, abstraction, hydrometry, piezometry and fish data through documented REST endpoints.