How each country writes dates, numbers and units.

Date and time patterns, number separators, first day of the week and measurement system, per country and language.

GET/api/v1/locales/de-DE200
{
  "locale": "de-DE",
  "date_format": "dd.MM.y",
  "decimal": ",",
  "group": ".",
  "first_day": "monday",
  "measurement": "metric"
}
Source
Unicode CLDR
Licence
Unicode License
Refreshed
2026-10-09
Simplified example, not live data.

What locale data gives you

Dates and times
Short and long patterns, 12 or 24 hour clocks and the first day of the week.
Numbers and money
Decimal and grouping separators and where the currency symbol goes.
Measurement
Metric, US or UK customary units, per country.
Built on shared standards
Derived from CLDR and attributed to it on every record.

Know where every record comes from

Source, licence and verification status travel with the data. This is an excerpt of the register behind the API.

SourceUsed forLicence
Unicode CLDRLocale attributesUnicode License

Start with one request

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curl "https://locale.atlasref.dev/api/v1/locales/de-DE" \
  -H "x-api-key: $ATLASREF_KEY"

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