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Windy

Windy.com is an extraordinary tool for weather forecast visualization. It’s fast, intuitive, detailed and most accurate weather app trusted by professional pilots, paragliders, skydivers, kiters, surfers, boaters, fishermen, storm chasers and weather geeks, and even by...

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  • Freemium (Subscription)
  • Proprietary

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  • Online
  • Android
  • iPhone
  • HUAWEI AppGallery
  • iPad
  • Apple Watch
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Top Positive Comment
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Best weather app around, so many models and layers to choose from,

Top Negative Comment
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The one-hour forecast requires subscribing to Premium which costs $18.99 / year.

ajala steew
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The only online weather website that can communicate with airplanes, roads, or drones with a multitude of components (options). Excellent!

Hasan Yildiz
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Premium and not open source.

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What is Windy?

Windy.com is an extraordinary tool for weather forecast visualization. It’s fast, intuitive, detailed and most accurate weather app trusted by professional pilots, paragliders, skydivers, kiters, surfers, boaters, fishermen, storm chasers and weather geeks, and even by governments, army staffs and rescue teams.

Whether you are tracking a tropical storm or potential severe weather, planning a trip, pursuing your favourite outdoor sport, or you just need to know if it will rain this weekend, Windy provides you with the most up-to-date weather forecast around.

The uniqueness of Windy lies in the fact that it brings you better quality information than the other weather apps’ pro-features, while our product is absolutely free and even without ads.

Powerful, smooth and fluid presentation makes weather forecasting a real pleasure!

All forecast models at once

Windy brings you all the world’s leading weather forecasting models: global ECMWF, GFS and ICON plus local NEMS, AROME, UKV, ICON EU and ICON-D2 (for Europe). Furthermore NAM and HRRR (for the USA) and ACCESS (for Australia).

51 weather maps

From wind, rain, temperature and pressure to swell or CAPE index, with Windy you will have all convenient weather maps just at your fingertips.

Satellite & Doppler radar

Global satellite composite is created from NOAA, EUMETSAT, and Himawari. The image frequency is 5-15 minutes based on area. Doppler radar covers large parts of Europe, America, Asia, and Australia.

Point of interests

Windy lets you display observed wind and temperature, forecasted weather, airports around the World, collection of 55 000 weather webcams and 1500+ paragliding spots right on the map.

Fully customizable

Add your favorite weather maps to quick menu, customize color palette on any layer, access advanced options in the settings. All that makes Windy the weather geek’s tool of choice.

Windy information

  • Developed by

    CZ flagWindyty SE
  • Licensing

    Proprietary and Freemium product.
  • Pricing

    Subscription ranging between $19 and $30 per month + free version with limited functionality.
  • Rating

    Average rating of 4
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  • Supported Languages

    • English
    • Arabic
    • Czech
    • Dutch
    • Estonian
    • French
    • German
    • Indonesian
    • Japanese
    • Portuguese
    • Russian
    • Slovak
    • Chinese
    • Vietnamese

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