MeteoSwiss

Bundesamt für Meteorologie und Klimatologie

In-app purchases

About this app

Intuitive, personalised
and innovative: the MeteoSwiss app is your comprehensive companion for all weather information in Switzerland – compact and always up to date.

Get updates on weather forecasts, current measurements, and federal natural hazard warnings. Subscribe to natural hazard warnings as push notifications for your locations, and customize the warning types and thresholds according to your preferences.

Stay informed with informative blog posts on weather and climate topics.


Detailed features:

Weather Forecasts

• Weather on-site with a 5-hour forecast for your location
• Local forecasts for all places/ZIP codes in Switzerland with an overview for the next 8 days
• Wind/temperatures at different altitudes
• Weather report for the three language regions of Switzerland, as well as possible developments for the following week, European isobar map, and road condition forecast


Weather Animations

• Measurements and forecasts of precipitation, precipitation type, wind, temperature, hail, and clouds
• Hail reporting function
• Satellite images


Natural Hazard Warnings

• All warnings on natural hazards from the Federal Authorities (severe weather, floods, forest fire, earthquakes and avalanches)
• Warning area overview on an interactive map
• Federal natural hazard bulletin
• Subscribeable warnings as push notifications for locations and warning types with individual warning thresholds


Current Measurements

• Overview of weather stations on an interactive map and list view
• Selection of various measurement data with up to 10-minute updates


Your Locations

• Search for all places/ZIP codes in Switzerland
• An easy overview of your locations: The app keeps an organised list of your relevant locations.


Meteo Reports

• Display of submitted reports and images for specific weather events from users of the MeteoSwiss app


Sports & Health

• Air quality
• Pollen forecast
• UV index
• Snow depth and fresh snow forecast


MeteoSwiss Blog

• Daily updated posts and information on weather and climate


Aviation Weather (available through in-app purchase)

• METAR/TAF Switzerland
• Aviation weather warnings Switzerland
• Windanimations Switzerland on different FL
• GAFOR Switzerland
• Text forecasts for powered flight, gliding and ballooning
• Low Level SWC Alps and Europe
• Pressure difference
• QNH – Chart
• W / T – Chart
• Wind – Barbs
• Regtherm
• Trajectories
• Emagramms


Legal basis

https://www.meteoswiss.admin.ch/about-us/legal-basis.html

Ratings and reviews

A step backwards. As is usual these days with apps and their big updates. I can't set weather alerts separately for my locations. Funnily enough, this used to be standard. Before the big revolutionary-everything-will-be-so-much-better update. At least I can set my locations and have them displayed all the time, so I should probably be grateful for that. Also, there's so much data and info.. Let us close these panels, like sunshine, individually. There's still hope..

Huge disappointment, both regarding look and feel, should really get one single star only. What was a well functionioning app became a mess of scattered about graphs and text with confusing overlays. At least, the radar display and forecast are still working better and give a much longer period than apps elsewhere. Radar screenshot, temperature, and the daily graph on the first screen please, no navigation required. But how many swipes and taps it again to get there now?

very useful information, however two weaknesses: - having to go to the settings to change the list "my locations" is cumbersome. it would be great if I could add a location that I just searched, or opened from the map - the animations screen is lagging a lot on my phone. I guess it requires high performant devices.

What's new

With the latest release of the MeteoSwiss app, we have expanded the local forecast with exciting new content. It now includes additional information on the probability of precipitation, the duration of sunshine and extended information on wind and gusts.

Thank you very much for all the feedback on the new app. This has really helped us to further improve the new app. The time has now come to say goodbye to the old home screen. This will no longer exist after the current release.