This dataset contains catchment average time series of five meteorological or hydrological parameters for 3872 hydrometric stations across Europe from 1960-2010. The parameters are: rainfall, soil moisture saturation, snowmelt, snow cover and convective conditions. All parameters have a daily resolution and were derived from a 0.11x0.11° reanalysis dataset. Daily averages were calculated from the pixels within each catchment, weighted by the fraction of pixel area that lies within the respective catchment. This dataset was originally created for the classification of floods by their generating process, but is also suitable for different hydrological studies. The dataset consists of two types of files: (1) The station metadata, which contains latitude, longitude, catchment area and an ID for each hydrometric station.(2) The five time series datasets, which contain one value for each station ID and each day from 1960-01-01 to 2010-12-31.