
Data and tables have been completely revised for the 2013 edition.The standard includes climate zone maps and data for the entire world.


ANSI/ASHRAE Standard 169-2013, Climatic Data for Building Design Standards, serves as a comprehensive source of climate data for those involved in building design, and provides a variety of climatic information for designing, planning, and sizing building energy systems and equipment.Standard 169 is accompanied by online supporting files for climatic data and design conditions, as well as tables and figures. Weather Data Viewer also provides calculators to implement various calculation methods found in the Handbook, such as those for return period minimum/maximum temperatures, degree-days to any base, design day temperature, clear sky solar radiation, and load calculation data, as well as a bin data generator.Standard 169-2013, Climatic Data for Building Design Standards.

Also available are joint frequency matrices of dry-bulb temperature and time of day (also known as temperature bin data) and additional information, such as time zones of the stations and the months and years that were used for station design condition calculations.
