Dataset containing rainfall observations from Netatmo personal weather stations (PWSs) within 20 km from 11 automatic weather stations (AWSs) in the Netherlands. This dataset is based on the 10 highest rainfall events per season, accumulation interval (1h, 3h, 6h and 24h) observed by the AWSs. This resulted in 1760 rainfall events between 2018-2023. For each rainfall event, rainfall observations from PWSs within a 20 km radius from an AWS was collected, using the Netamo public API. The 10 closest PWSs within a radius of 10 km from an AWS were used for quantifying the quality, the other PWSs were used for filtering the data using the PWSQC quality control algorithm. Included are a metadata file with the station locations, distance to closest AWS + name AWS and name, .csv files with the Netatmo data without quality control (raw.zip) and .csv files with the filtered data (filtered.zip) using the PWSQC quality control algorithm.