Given a totally real number field $F$ and a mod $p$ Galois representation $\rho\colon G_F\to \mathrm{ GL}_2(\bar{ \mathbf{ F}}_p)$, we propose an explicit definition of the set of Serre weights $W(\rho)$ attached to $\rho$. We prove that our explicit definition is equivalent to previous definitions available in the literature. As a consequence we obtain an explicit Serre's modularity conjecture for Hilbert modular forms over totally real number fields. Our work generalises previous work of Demb\'{ e}l\'{ e}--Diamond--Roberts and Calegari--Emerton--Gee--Mavrides which together give explicit and equivalent sets of weights when $p$ is unramified in $F$.
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