meteoradar gmbh

What meteoradar gmbh does

meteoradar gmbh is a Swiss private weather-radar forecast service headquartered in Stallikon, operating the meteoradar.ch platform across Switzerland and Central Europe. The company builds a suite of proprietary radar products including Zoomradar Pro 2020 (a 30-minute nowcasting radar prediction with zoomable maps), Donnerradar (real-time lightning risk detection with polarity indication), haildoc (hail documentation and size estimation from radar plus ground reports), 3D-Radar (storm structure visualization), Regensummenkarten (rainfall accumulation maps), Lokalprognose/Wiewirds (location-based local forecasts), Risikowetter, Schnee und Eis, meteoalert, and the Komposit D-CH cross-border composite. Underlying data is sourced from Meteoschweiz, Météorage (France), and DWD (Germany), layered onto OpenStreetMap/OpenTopoMap base maps and supplemented by user-reported observations from the Sturmforum, Sturmarchiv, and skywarn.ch communities. The company was founded in 1993 and currently operates with 1–10 employees.

In December 2021, meteoradar gmbh merged with Meteotest AG in Bern, which now owns key products including Donnerradar and haildoc; founder Willi Schmid retired around June 2022 and the Meteotest team assumed control of the Wetterblog and product operations, with the meteoradar brand continuing as the customer-facing storefront.

The business model is a self-serve consumer subscription model accessed through the website (Abo kaufen), supplemented by Google AdSense advertising on free users (subscribers receive ad-free access). Distribution is entirely direct via meteoradar.ch with no disclosed enterprise sales motion, enterprise APIs, or SDKs. The customer base consists of weather enthusiasts, storm chasers, and the general public in Switzerland, Germany, Austria, and France, with secondary use-case traction among agricultural operators and insurance-related users leveraging haildoc for damage documentation. Pricing is login-walled and not publicly disclosed; a 20% price reduction has been announced effective January 4, 2026, indicating a strategy to broaden the paying base within its niche market.

Name

meteoradar gmbh

Legal name

meteoradar gmbh

Website

https://meteoradar.ch

Company type

Private

Founded year

1993

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

meteoradar gmbh operates the meteoradar.ch weather radar platform for Switzerland and Central Europe, offering 30-minute nowcasting, lightning detection, hail documentation, and storm visualization to weather enthusiasts and the general public via self-serve subscriptions.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Weather Intelligence Software

akta.pro primary industry

Early Warning, Event Monitoring & Forecasting (Extreme Weather Alerts, Nowcasting) (EUABALAJ)

akta.pro secondary industry

Natural Disaster, Weather & Disruption Risk Monitoring (THACAEAI)

Keywords

• Weather radar services
• Precipitation nowcasting
• Lightning detection
• Hail documentation
• Storm forecasting

Headquarters

HQ city

Stallikon

HQ country

Switzerland

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Subscription Services: The company operates on a subscription model where users can purchase paid subscriptions (Abo) to access premium weather radar products and services. Subscribers receive ad-free access and full product functionality.
2. Advertising Revenue: The website displays Google Adsense advertising banners. Ad-free access is provided to paying subscribers. Free users see personalized or generic banner advertisements, which subsidize the free content.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

meteoradar gmbh provides high-resolution weather radar-based forecasting products for Switzerland and Central Europe, including 30-minute precipitation nowcasting, real-time lightning detection, hail documentation, and severe storm warnings delivered through web-based subscriptions and advertising-supported access. The service integrates data from multiple official meteorological agencies and presents it through interactive maps and visualizations.

Product overview

meteoradar gmbh provides a suite of weather radar products focused on precipitation tracking, storm monitoring, and severe weather prediction for Switzerland and Central Europe. The core platform is Zoomradar Pro 2020 offering interactive 30-minute nowcasting with zoomable maps, supplemented by specialized modules including Donnerradar for lightning tracking, haildoc for hail documentation, 3D-Radar for storm structure visualization, and Regensummenkarten for rainfall accumulation. The product ecosystem integrates data from Meteoschweiz, Météorage, and DWD weather services.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Zoomradar: Radar forecast product providing 30-minute nowcasting with zoomable map display.
• Donnerradar
• haildoc
• meteoalert
• meteolocal
• Regensummenkarten
• Wiewirds

Products and services

• Zoomradar Pro 2020
• Donnerradar (Thunder Radar)

Quantifiable outcome

• Superzellen tracking: a documented supercell storm on April 28, 2023 had a lifespan of 4 hours 5 minutes, traveled 215 km at an average speed of 52 km/h, with hail shafts reaching 8 km altitude and cloud tops to 11 km

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature9 records

Partnerships

Four partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• Meteotest AGcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 22 December 2021meteoradar gmbh merged with Meteotest AG in December 2021. Meteotest AG, based in Bern, Switzerland, assumed operations of meteoradar's products and services. The Donnerradar and haildoc products became part of Meteotest's portfolio. The weather blog content transitioned to the Meteotest team, and Meteotest provides weather data and infrastructure support.
• Meteoschweiz (Swiss Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology)coreTechnology or IntegrationMeteoschweiz provides foundational weather observation data and ground measurements that meteoradar integrates into its radar visualization and prediction products.
• Météorage (France)coreTechnology or IntegrationMétéorage provides lightning detection data from France that is incorporated into meteoradar's lightning risk assessment and visualization products.
• DWD (Deutscher Wetterdienst, Germany)coreTechnology or IntegrationDWD provides German weather radar and observation data used as a data source for meteoradar's composite radar maps covering Central Europe.

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• Meteoschweiz: Swiss federal meteorological office that is both a data provider to meteoradar and a free public competitor offering radar, warnings, and forecasts — relevant as the incumbent meteoradar must differentiate against.
• Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD): Germany's national meteorological service and a key upstream data supplier to meteoradar; relevant as the incumbent public-sector provider of free radar and nowcasting in the DACH market that constrains paid-product pricing.
• DTN: Large commercial weather and agricultural data provider serving agriculture, energy, and aviation globally with radar-derived products; relevant incumbent showing the B2B trajectory meteoradar could follow with haildoc and risk-weather products.
• yr.no: Norwegian Meteorological Institute and NRK joint weather service offering free high-quality forecasts and radar for Northern/Central Europe — comparable as a free, public-adjacent consumer weather destination that competes for the same enthusiast audience.

Emerging players

• Tomorrow.io: Weather intelligence platform offering nowcasting and severe-weather APIs for enterprises; comparable in nowcasting focus and B2B ambition but operates at a global scale meteoradar does not, and represents the type of well-funded competitor that could expand into DACH.

Direct peers

• Meteoblue: Swiss-based weather forecasting service offering consumer and B2B products across Europe with high-resolution local forecasts and nowcasting — directly comparable in geography, customer base (weather enthusiasts, professionals), and subscription monetization model.
• Kachelmannwetter: German weather platform specializing in high-resolution radar, storm tracking, and severe weather visualization for DACH audiences — the closest functional peer given its emphasis on radar nowcasting, convective weather, and paid subscriptions in the same German-speaking market.
• WetterOnline: Major German consumer weather service with strong radar visualization and app distribution; comparable in that it monetizes DACH weather traffic via subscriptions and advertising, though with broader forecasting scope than meteoradar's storm-focus.

Others

• Skywarn Schweiz: Swiss storm-spotter network linked directly from meteoradar.ch that feeds user-reported hail observations into the haildoc validation pipeline — comparable as an adjacent community/data ecosystem that is also a partial partner and channel.
• Météorage: European lightning detection network operated by Météo France that supplies data into meteoradar's Donnerradar product; included as a data supplier peer and a domain-adjacent commercial operator in the same lightning-risk monitoring space.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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