Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology MeteoSwiss

SMS

Our SMS weather service offers a number of services for mobile communications. SMS messages are short, to the point and cheap and are available at any time, anywhere and on any network.

 

 

List of Products  Keyword  Prices & info
     
General weather    
  • Weather forecast for Switzerland

METEOD

CHF -.60
Severe weather    
  • Severe weather warning (subscription)
  • Thunderstorm flash (subscription)

START UNWETTER

 

START GEWITTER XXXX(ZIP)

CHF -.40 per message

 

CHF -.40 per message
 Health    
  • Pollen forecast, XXXX (ZIP)
  • UV forecast, canton XX
  • Captions for the UV SMS

POL XXXX (e.g. 8001)

UV XX (e.g. VS, GR)

UV LEG

CHF -.40

CHF -.40

CHF -.40

 Agriculture   Keywords Frost (in German)
  • Frost forecast region XX (single)
  • Frost forecast region XX (Abo)

FROST XX

 

START FROST XX

CHF -.60

 

CHF -.60 per message

 Aviation   Manual Weather alarm
  • METAR, XXXX airport/airfield
  • TAF, XXXX airport/airfield

 

  • Weather alarm gliders (single)
  • Weather alarm gliders (subscription)

METAR (e.g. LSZH)

TAF (e.g. LSGG)

 

XCALARM

 

START XCALARMABO

CHF -.40
CHF -.60

 

CHF -.80

 
CHF -.60 per message
Water sports   Keywords Lakes
  • Wind forecasts, lake XXXX
  • Storm warnings, lake XXXX

WIND XX…X 

START ALARM XX…X

CHF -.60
CHF -.40

Traffic    
  • Road weather warnings, canton XX, single
  • Road weather warnings, canton XX, (Abo)

START ICE XX (e.g. SO, BL)

 

ICE XX (e.g. SO, BL)

CHF -.40

CHF -.40 per message
Mountains   Keywords Snow
  • Fresh snow forecasts, XXX region
SNOW XXX

 CHF -.60

 

How to use SMS-Services?

 

Single message

Send the appropriate keyword (e.g. POL 8001)

to number 162

Subscription (using SMS Push)

Send START (followed by a space) before the keyword

to number 162
Cancel a subscription

Send STOP (followed by a space) before the keyword

to number 162
Cancel all subscriptions Send STOP ALL to number 162

 

Wind forecasts and storm warnings for lakes via SMS

Choose a lake with a keyword from the list.
Keywords wind forecast and stormwarning for lakes.pdf, 80 KB
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