About Us

Meteomatics specializes in high-resolution commercial weather forecasting, power output forecasting for wind, solar and hydro, weather data gathering from the lower atmosphere using Meteodrones, and weather data delivery via the Weather API.

Our high-quality weather information enables our customers to make better decisions every day. From improving safety onboard ships and aircraft to saving fuel and optimizing the performance of renewable energy facilities, access to accurate weather data helps companies increase their productivity and reduce the risks for their business.

Innovative Data Gathering

We combine current and historical weather data from various sources worldwide, including weather models, satellite data, precipitation radar information, ocean data, and station observations. Furthermore, unlike other weather data providers, we develop and manufacture our own autonomous weather drones - Meteodrones - which fly up to 6 km above ground level to collect data from the planetary boundary layer. Thanks to a special permission from the Federal Office of Civil Aviation, Meteodrones can fly beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS), allowing us to collect data even inside clouds and fog. We integrate the data collected by Meteodrones into the calculation of our EURO1k weather model, providing even more precise and reliable forecasts. By accessing multiple data sources, we can efficiently compute sector-specific weather information and parameters tailored to our clients' needs.

High Precision and Hyperlocal Forecasting

Meteomatics' EURO1k weather model boasts a unique 1km resolution, providing highly accurate weather forecasts throughout Europe, tailored for various sectors. Furthermore, our weather API technology employs 90-metre downscaling using NASA's digital terrain model, enabling us to provide hyperlocal forecasts globally.

To guarantee the most precise forecasts, we calibrate our models with the latest weather data measured by global weather stations, thus optimising the model output. The combination of these methods results in unrivalled accuracy, which is especially important for local activities (such as airport management, renewable energy production, etc.) that rely heavily on accurate weather predictions.

Super Computing and Data Processing

Meteomatics comprises both meteorologists and IT specialists, allowing us to deliver unparalleled weather data. Today, our database contains over 15 petabytes of weather data, and it is growing every day. Making such large amounts of data accessible is associated with great challenges. With our sophisticated background caching system, Meteocache, we store vast amounts of observations, enabling our Weather API to recalculate forecasts in real-time using the latest atmospheric information. Our Meteocache system matches data in time and space, ensuring that even large data sets can be efficiently and quickly queried in any format.

Additionally, we also develop and maintain our own high-performance computer cluster, built with 40’000 CPU cores, to calculate our own high-resolution weather model, EURO1k, within one hour. This calculation capability in only one hour is worldwide unique.

Seamless Implementation

At Meteomatics, we prioritise making complex weather data user-friendly for seamless, fast, and flexible integration into existing workflows and IT systems. We offer free connectors on Github for multiple programming languages, including MATLAB, Python, R, and more. The information obtained through our API can be output in various formats, such as CSV, XML, JSON, and NetCDF, to suit your needs. Our data's WMS/WFS capability enables easy integration into visualisations. Thanks to our high degree of flexibility and fast data delivery, customers can easily access and integrate real-time weather information to optimise operational processes and manage extreme weather situations better.

We are techies.

Our passion is solving challenges with technologically sound and self-developed solutions.

We are ambitious.

We are proud of what we have already achieved at Meteomatics and are committed to constantly expanding and improving our forecasts and services.

We are dynamic.

We are a reliable partner with the drive to get things done and tackle problems quickly.

We are here for you.

We have an uncomplicated communication style and pride ourselves on our top-tier customer relationships.

Innovation

At the heart of all our activities are technological innovations. Through constant testing, tinkering, curiosity and ambition, we develop new technologies that provide our customers with real added value and set us apart from the competition. Thus, we support innovative thinking and inspire each other to break new ground and thrive while doing so.

Reliability

We are a reliable partner for all our stakeholders. Local and global organizations around the world rely on our solutions and our commitment to always deliver the highest quality weather data, and we never let them down. Our customers can trust the accuracy and the availability of our data and services.

Collaboration

We believe that through collaboration, team spirit, and hard work everything is possible. To develop our solutions from the idea to the product, we promote cross-functional cooperation. We support and motivate each other at all times to unlock the full potential of each Meteomatics colleague.

Excellence

Whatever we do, we do right. Thanks to our Swiss roots, striving for the highest standards in everything we do is in our DNA. Our solutions, our service and our interactions with all stakeholders (customers, partners, colleagues, etc.) are driven by the idea of delivering nothing less than excellence. We align and plan our resources wisely in order to maintain our quality standards.

It was during a turbulent flight as a private pilot – everyone knows the inconvenience of turbulence and that weather often does not behave like forecasted – that Martin Fengler was shook awake and two things struck his mind: hyperlocal weather forecasts would be a significant benefit and the accuracy of forecasts needs to be greatly improved. Subsequently, Meteomatics was founded with the goal to revolutionize weather forecasting – through combining a next generation Forecasting Engine1 with the potential of yet untapped weather data2, measured by Meteodrones.

Meteomatics has developed rapidly since its foundation: from a small core team working on Meteodrones to an international company with over 60 employees, ranging from data scientists, meteorologists, hydrologists, physicists, drone engineers, electrical engineers, technologists & business professionals, and a very diverse and international customer base from various industries. This confirms Meteomatics to be on the right track with its approach.