diff --git a/docs/snippets/weather/station-search/filter_by_climate_zone.py b/docs/snippets/weather/station-search/filter_by_climate_zone.py
index 62075af..7f5ad96 100644
--- a/docs/snippets/weather/station-search/filter_by_climate_zone.py
+++ b/docs/snippets/weather/station-search/filter_by_climate_zone.py
@@ -4,14 +4,25 @@
 
 index: StationIndex = ...  # type: ignore[assignment]
 # --8<-- [start:example]
-# Each WeatherStation carries its ASHRAE HOF climate zone.
-zone_4a = [s for s in index.stations if s.ashrae_climate_zone.startswith("4A")]
+# Ask for a zone by its code. The code is parsed out of the label rather than
+# read off the front of it, which matters: 2,162 of the 69,638 bundled records
+# are labelled "7A - ASHRAE Climate Zone could not be determined" or "8A - ...",
+# and neither 7A nor 8A is an ASHRAE zone, since zones 7 and 8 carry no suffix.
+zone_4a = index.filter(climate_zone="4A")
 print(f"Zone 4A stations: {len(zone_4a)}")
 
-# Combine with country/state via the existing filter() to narrow further:
-us_zone_5 = [s for s in index.filter(country="USA") if s.ashrae_climate_zone.startswith("5")]
+# Combine with the other keys, which all narrow together.
+seattle_area = index.filter(climate_zone="4C", country="USA", state="WA")
+print(f"Zone 4C in Washington: {len(seattle_area)}")
 
-# Pick the warmest design dry-bulb in a given zone:
-hottest = max(us_zone_5, key=lambda s: s.cooling_design_db_c)
+# The stations whose zone upstream could not determine are reachable, and only
+# this way: no climate_zone value returns them. Asking for them is a separate
+# question because the zone key's domain is already every real code, so a
+# reserved string could not be told apart from one.
+undetermined = index.filter(climate_zone_determined=False)
+print(f"Zone not determined upstream: {len(undetermined)}")
+
+# Pick the warmest design dry-bulb in a zone.
+hottest = max(index.filter(climate_zone="5A", country="USA"), key=lambda s: s.cooling_design_db_c)
 print(f"{hottest.display_name}: {hottest.cooling_design_db_c} °C / {hottest.cooling_design_db_f:.1f} °F")
 # --8<-- [end:example]
diff --git a/docs/weather/station-search.md b/docs/weather/station-search.md
index 0f6d8fc..9ec8ce8 100644
--- a/docs/weather/station-search.md
+++ b/docs/weather/station-search.md
@@ -112,7 +112,8 @@ Combine `geocode()` with `nearest()` for address-based search:
 
 !!! tip "Climate-zone-aware search"
     Each `WeatherStation` carries its ASHRAE HOF climate zone, design
-    dry-bulb temperatures, HDD18, and CDD10. See
+    dry-bulb temperatures, HDD18, and CDD10. Filter on the zone with the
+    index's own key rather than on the label text: see
     [Filter by Climate Zone](#filter-by-climate-zone) below.
 
 ## Filter by Country
@@ -151,11 +152,36 @@ design conditions from a neighbouring WMO station; otherwise it is
 
 ## Filter by Climate Zone
 
-Filter stations by ASHRAE climate zone using a plain list comprehension:
+Ask the index for a zone by its code.
 
-```python
---8<-- "docs/snippets/weather/station-search/filter_by_climate_zone.py:example"
-```
+=== "Python"
+
+    ```python
+    --8<-- "docs/snippets/weather/station-search/filter_by_climate_zone.py:example"
+    ```
+
+=== "TypeScript"
+
+    ```ts
+    --8<-- "docs/snippets/js/weather/station-search/filter_by_climate_zone.ts:example"
+    ```
+
+!!! warning "The label is not a code, and matching its first token invents two zones"
+
+    2,162 of the 69,638 bundled records are labelled
+    `7A - ASHRAE Climate Zone could not be determined` or `8A - ...`. Neither 7A
+    nor 8A is an ASHRAE zone: zones 7 and 8 carry no moisture suffix. Reading the
+    code off the front of the label therefore produces twenty-one zones where
+    there are nineteen, and files 3.1% of the index under two that do not exist.
+
+    The zone key matches a parsed code with those records excluded, so it returns
+    nothing for `7A`. They stay reachable through the separate key for records
+    whose zone was not determined, and every station is returned by exactly one of
+    the two.
+
+    A related trap, for anyone writing the parse by hand: the suffix is `[ABC]`,
+    not `[AB]`. Dropping C loses 3C, 4C and 5C, which is 1,653 marine-zone
+    stations, leaves sixteen zones where there are nineteen, and raises nothing.
 
 ## Listing Countries