The climate station network was set up on the southern slopes of Kilimanjaro, Tanzania, in 2010 and presents the recorded characteristics of air temperature, air humidity, and precipitation from both a plot-based and area-wide perspectives. The station set-up followed a hierarchical approach covering an elevation as well as a land-use disturbance gradient. It consisted of 52 basic stations measuring ambient air temperature and above-ground air humidity and 11 precipitation measurement sites, with recording intervals of 5 min. With respect to precipitation observations, the network extended the long-term recordings of A. Hemp which has installed and maintained up to 117 multi-month accumulating rainfall buckets in the region since 1997.