Meteomatics

Meteomatics is a Swiss weather technology company, founded on 20 March 2012 in St. Gallen by mathematician Dr. Martin Fengler.

History and products

Before starting Meteomatics, Fengler built numerical weather prediction models at Meteomedia AG (now MeteoGroup Switzerland), where he led the technology and innovation department. Meteomatics began as a meteorological consulting business and has since grown into a combined hardware and data company: it builds its own Meteodrone weather drones, operates proprietary high-resolution forecast models including EURO1k, and sells forecast and historical weather data through an API used by broadcasters such as Swiss broadcaster SRF and the German site wetter.de. Swiss regulators cleared Meteodrone flights within cloud and fog, beyond visual line of sight and up to 6 km in 2015, and a Meteodrone (registration SUI-9999) was added to the Swiss Museum of Transport's aviation exhibition in 2022. The company's drone data has been used by MeteoSwiss, Grand Forks Air Force Base (from 2022), the US Navy (from 2025) and, under a 2026 pilot, the US National Weather Service via NOAA.

Products on this site

The Meteodrone Strato is Meteomatics' high-altitude multicopter for stratospheric atmospheric sounding, unveiled in October 2026.