Standardized Precipitation Index, Monthly and Dekadal (Africa)
African Centre of Meteorological Applications for Development (ACMAD)
- License
- Attribution
- Commercial
- Yes
- Format
- GeoTIFF
- Coverage
- Africa
- Projection
- EPSG:4326 · WGS 84
- Last updated
- 21 Oct 2026 · Update frequency Every two weeks
Tags
ACMAD publishes monthly and dekadal grids for 2001 through 2026 so wet and dry regions share one scale.
Source and attribution
- Publisher
- African Centre of Meteorological Applications for Development (ACMAD)
- License
- Attribution
- Commercial use
- Yes
- Attribution required
- Yes
- Modification allowed
- See publisher
- Redistribution allowed
- See publisher
- Share-alike
- No
- Region
- Africa
- Type
- Raster
- Time
- 2001–2026
- Download
- SPI rasters, 2025, monthly and dekadal (GeoTIFF zip, 1.07 MB)SPI rasters, 2026 so far (GeoTIFF zip, 163 KB)SPI rasters, 2024 (GeoTIFF zip, 1.07 MB)
- Extent
- -25.4-34.963.537.6West, south, east, north. Data extent.
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