Gridded data of daily precipitation with 1 or 5 km horizontal resolution for covering river basins of Germany and neighbouring countries from 1951 until 2006 provided by the hydrometeorology of Deutscher Wetterdienst. More details about the data set can be found in Rauthe et al. 2013, MetZ, DOI:10.1127/0941-2948/2013/0436 For data requests please send an e-mail to hydromet@dwd.de