Welcome to the EMS Annual Meeting 2026

The 2026 Annual Meeting of the European Meteorological Society will take place as a hybrid event at the Jaarbeurs conference centre in Utrecht, The Netherlands & online from 6 to 11 September 2026.

Delta Climate in Europe: weather, water, and warnings

Advancing Atmospheric Science, Water Management, and Societal Preparedness in a Changing European Climate

A programmatic focus of the 2026 Annual Meeting that reflects particular interests and activities of the host institutions will be on the challenges for the broad European meteorological infrastructure posed by climate change: to develop tools for early warnings and societal preparedness in a changing European climate. More

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News & Deadlines

Session programme

The detailed session programme is online.

For any travel plans, please be aware that the session programme starts on Monday morning at 9:00 CEST and will continue through Friday afternoon. The opening Icebreaker reception is held on Sunday, 6 September 2026, at 18:00 CEST. Please check the overview of the scheduled sessions.

Browse programme by day & time

Registration is open

Registration for the conference is open. You can register for an onsite or online participation, and the early rates are valid until 3 August 2026. Besides the scientific sessions, the local hosts are organizing several excursions, including workshops and a pub quiz as a social event. For the ECS community, a range of activities will take place during the conference, but please be advised that registration is required. Check out the programme!

Please note: Registration for workshops and excursions will only be possible alongside your conference registration during the early registration period!

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EMS Webinar Series

The EMS has held two webinars focusing on the Annual Meeting, which are mainly intended for Early Career Scientists. However, they are not only relevant for first time attendees but also for others who may learn new things about the events. Check out the recordings:

Your secret advice for the EMS Annual Meeting

How to prepare for the EMS Annual Meeting


Keynote lectures

Keynote lectures will take place on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday evening.

Tuesday – OSA Keynote by Paolo Ruti on "40 Years of Operational Excellence: EUMETSAT’s Latest Missions (MTG, EPS-SG) and beyond."

Wednesday – ES Keynote by Julie Berckmans on "Upcoming policy initiatives to prepare Europe to become climate resilient."

Thursday – UP Keynote by Friederike Otto on "Uncertain Numbers, Clear Causes: Lessons on uncertainty from 10 years of attributing extreme weather events to climate change."


Plan your trip to Utrecht

We recommend organizing your trip to Utrecht well in advance. The hosts have put together a list of accommodations in Utrecht and the surrounding area. You can find all the information you need about travelling to Utrecht here.

We encourage all participants of the conference to investigate and consider travel to Utrecht by train and to seek eco-friendly accommodation options, in order to minimize the carbon/GHG footprint caused by their travel.


Aims & Opportunities

The Annual Meetings of the EMS aim to foster the exchange and cross-fertilization of ideas in the meteorological, climatological, and related communities. Facilitating interactions, integration, engagement of science, applications, and actors is our core objective. The session programme highlights these goals and offers many opportunities for enhancing collaboration across the entire weather and climate enterprise (public, private, academic, users, and NGOs) to benefit societies in Europe and worldwide.