Instituto Nacional de Meteorologia (INMET)

What Instituto Nacional de Meteorologia (INMET) does

Instituto Nacional de Meteorologia (INMET) is Brazil's official national meteorological service, operating as a federal government agency under the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock (MAPA) since its founding in 1909. Headquartered in Brasília, INMET is responsible for weather monitoring, short- and long-range forecasting, climate monitoring, and agrometeorological decision support across all of Brazil. It represents Brazil at the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), a designation held since 1950, and operates an extensive nationwide infrastructure of automatic and conventional meteorological stations, radar systems, and satellite data reception facilities.

INMET's core technical platform comprises the COSMO numerical weather prediction model for 24-hour forecasting, the proprietary SISDAGRO agricultural decision support system (providing water balance, degree-days, frost prediction, and bovine thermal comfort tools), and a 6-month climate forecast capability developed in partnership with the Federal University of Lavras (UFLA)—a capability held by only 11 countries worldwide. The institution distributes its outputs through an integrated portfolio including the main Portal INMET, specialized portals for weather (tempo), climate (clima), numerical prediction (VIME), satellite imagery, radar data, and the historical BDMEP database, supplemented by mobile applications, email subscriptions, RSS alerts, and social media channels. Research partnerships with INPE (since 2018) and Banco do Brasil's Plataforma Broto distribution agreement (since 2022) extend its technical and commercial reach.

INMET operates as a free public service with no commercial pricing model; all forecasts, climate data, and agrometeorological bulletins are provided at no cost to Brazilian citizens, agriculture, energy producers, and civil defense agencies. The institution is funded through federal budget allocations rather than revenue generation, making its 308-employee headcount a proxy for operational scale rather than commercial capacity. Its primary customer segments—agriculture, energy, civil defense, and the general public—reflect the public-good nature of meteorological services in Brazil.

Name

Instituto Nacional de Meteorologia (INMET)

Legal name

Instituto Nacional de Meteorologia

Website

https://portal.inmet.gov.br

Company type

Private

Founded year

1909

Operating status

Operating

Short description

Brazil's official national meteorological institute, operating under the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock, providing free weather forecasts, climate monitoring, and agrometeorological decision support across all of Brazil since 1909.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Meteorological Services

akta.pro primary industry

Environmental Data, Monitoring, Remote Sensing & Early Warning (BPADALAN)

akta.pro secondary industries

Early Warning, Event Monitoring & Forecasting (Extreme Weather Alerts, Nowcasting) (EUABALAJ), Climate Risk & Scenario Analysis (TCFD/IFRS S2) (EUAHAJAD), Downscaled Climate Projections & Scenario Analytics (CMIP, SSP/RCP, Regionalization) (EUABALAB)

Keywords

• Weather forecasting services
• Agrometeorological data
• Climate monitoring
• Meteorological warnings
• Weather radar network

Headquarters

HQ city

Brasília

HQ country

Brazil

HQ region

Latin America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Operations

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

INMET is Brazil's official national meteorological institute operating under the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock. It provides weather forecasts, agrometeorological bulletins, severe weather warnings, historical climate data, and 30-year climate normals through a nationwide network of surface stations, Doppler weather radars, and satellite ground-receiving stations. Its core products are freely distributed to the public and to sectoral users such as agriculture, civil defense, and energy producers.

Product overview

INMET (Instituto Nacional de Meteorologia) is Brazil's national meteorological service under the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock. It operates a comprehensive suite of weather monitoring and forecasting products including the main Portal for general weather information, specialized portals for time (tempo), climate (clima), satellite imagery, numerical prediction (VIME), and radar data. The SISDAGRO system provides agricultural decision support with water balance, thermal sum, frost prediction, and crop phenology tools. Weather data access includes the BDMEP database, real-time station maps, and email/RSS alert services. The portfolio spans from general public weather forecasting to specialized agricultural agrometeorological products and climate predictions for 3-6 month horizons.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• SISDAGRO: Sistema de Suporte à Decisão na Agropecuária - Decision Support System in Agriculture developed by INMET for agricultural producers, providing weather monitoring, thermal sum calculations, water balance, and crop development tracking.
• SISDAGRO Platform

Products and services

• Previsão do Tempo (Weather Forecast)

Quantifiable outcome

• Brazil ranks among only 11 countries worldwide with 6-month climate forecasting capability
• +2 more outcomes

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration2 records

Feature5 records

Partnerships

Five partnerships are on record, tiered minor and core.

• Enagro/MAPA and UnBminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2024Partnership for meteorological observation training courses. INMET, in partnership with Enagro (Ministry of Agriculture) and University of Brasília (UnB), offers distance learning (EaD) courses in meteorological observation to train new professionals.
• Organização Meteorológica Mundial (OMM/WMO)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2023INMET represents Brazil at the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) since 1950, participating in international climate monitoring networks and contributing to global meteorological standards and data exchange.
• Banco do Brasil (Plataforma Broto)coreGTM or Marketing Partner · 1 January 2022Partnership to provide INMET weather forecasts and water balance data through the Banco do Brasil's Broto Platform, expanding rural producers' access to meteorological information through agricultural finance channels.
• Universidade Federal de Lavras (UFLA)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2021Technical partnership for the development of INMET's 6-month climate forecast capability. UFLA provided technical staff including Dr. Fabio Conde (PhD in Meteorology) who led the modeling development. This partnership enabled Brazil to join an elite group of only 11 countries with long-range climate forecasting capability.
• Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2018Since 2018, INMET and INPE have partnered to offer improved research results, numerical model development, remote sensing data products, climate projections, and 3-month climate forecasts. The partnership combines INPE's space research capabilities with INMET's national observation network.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration): United States' national meteorological and atmospheric agency; provides analogous public weather forecasts, climate monitoring, severe-weather warnings and WMO-coordinated data exchange, making it the closest structural peer to INMET at the national-service level.
• Met Office: United Kingdom's national meteorological service operating numerical prediction, climate data, severe-weather warnings and agrometeorological products. Directly comparable to INMET in mandate, WMO representation and product portfolio breadth.
• Météo-France: France's national meteorological service producing NWP outputs, climate services, severe-weather alerts and agrometeorological bulletins. Comparable to INMET as a public-sector meteorological agency serving a national agricultural economy.
• Bureau of Meteorology (Australia): Australia's national weather, climate and water agency providing forecasts, warnings, climate projections and hydrological services. Peers with INMET on NWP, severe-weather alerting, climate normals and agrometeorology.
• Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD): Germany's national meteorological service operating the ICON NWP model and producing forecasts, warnings and climate services. Comparable to INMET for its public-service mandate, WMO leadership role and range of agricultural / aviation / severe-weather products.
• Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA): Japan's national meteorological agency producing typhoon/earthquake/tsunami warnings, NWP, climate monitoring and seasonal forecasts. Direct government-agency peer with comparable operational forecasting and warning remit.
• Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC): Canadian federal agency providing weather, climate and environmental predictions and warnings. Comparable in mandate, government-agency structure and product breadth (forecasts, warnings, agrometeorology).
• India Meteorological Department (IMD): India's national meteorological service producing monsoon/agriculture forecasts, severe-weather warnings and climate services. Closely comparable to INMET in tropical/agricultural-economy context and WMO representation.
• INPE / CPTEC (Centro de Previsão de Tempo e Estudos Climáticos): Brazil's space-research institute operating CPTEC, the country's climate and numerical-weather-prediction center. Direct domestic peer to INMET and current strategic partner for NWP and climate projections across Brazilian territory.

Emerging players

• Climatempo: Brazil's leading private commercial weather services company, distributing forecasts via media partnerships, consumer channels and B2B products. Compares to INMET as a domestic counterpart competing for end-user attention, while relying partially on public meteorological data.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xtwitter.com/inmet_
• YouTubeyoutube.com/channel/UC-4zOTsIiqU9h3js0fjK00g
• Facebookfacebook.com/INMETBR
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/inmetbr
• Instagraminstagram.com/inmet.oficial
• TikToktiktok.com/@inmetoficial

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Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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