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.

News & Deadlines

Session organization

We would like to thank all contributors for the high number of abstracts submitted! All authors whose contributions have been accepted received a Letter of Acceptance on 11 May. The Programme and Science Committee has developed the session schedule, and now all the conveners are scheduling their sessions and deciding on the times and types of all accepted abstracts. The session programme will be published in mid-June, and all authors will receive an email confirmation stating the type of presentation they have been allocated (oral or poster) and their time slot.

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

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 organising several excursions, there will be workshops and a pub quiz as a social event. For the ECS, a range of activities will take place during the conference, and for all of them a 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 bird registration period!

EMS Webinar Series

This year, the EMS is offering a Webinar Your secret advice for the EMS Annual Meeting – relevant not only for first time attendees, others may learn new things about the events as well.

The panel discussion will take place on 10 June 2026, at 4pm CEST, as a @Zoom webinar. Find more details and register for the webinar!

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 organising 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 possibilities to travel to Utrecht by train and to look for more eco-friendly accommodation options, minimizing the carbon/GHG footprint caused by their travel.

Aims & Opportunities

The Annual Meetings of the EMS aim at fostering exchange and cross-fertilization of ideas in the meteorological, climatological, and related communities. Facilitating interactions, integration, and 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.