Its budget of around €300 million is funded by state grants, aeronautic royalties and sale of commercial services.

It is also member of the Institut au service du spatial, de ses applications et technologies.

In addition to its operations in metropolitan France, the agency provides forecasts and warnings for the French overseas départements and collectivités.

Some of these sub-divisions have particularly important international responsibilities: Although the original name of the organisation was "Météo-France", with acute accents and normal French capitalisation, all the publications made by Météo-France are now using the name written with capitals only, without any accents, everywhere the name is used as a trademark for the products and services delivered by the national organisation.

This trademark decision reflects the need to have its name not altered in electronic documents due to transcoding errors, and to allow easier international references in many languages, including when referencing the organisation itself (in copyright notices for example, or when citing sources).