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.
Features and data sources
✅ All leading weather forecast models: ECMWF, GFS by NOAA, ICON and more
✅ Several local weather models NEMS, ICON EU and ICON-D2, AROME, NAM, HRRR, ACCESS
✅ High-Res satellite composite
✅ Forecast model comparison
✅ 51 global weather maps
✅ Weather radar for many world locations
✅ 16 altitude levels from the surface to 13.5km/FL450
✅ Metric or imperial units
✅ Detailed weather forecast for any location (temperature, rain and snow accumulation, wind speed, wind gusts and wind direction)
✅ Detailed Airgram and Meteogram
✅ Meteogram: temperature and dew point, wind speed and wind gusts, pressure, precipitation, altitude cloud cover
✅ Altitude and Time zone info, Sunrise and Sunset time for any location
✅ Customizable list of Favorite spots (with the option to create mobile or e-mail alerts for upcoming weather conditions)
✅ Nearby weather stations (Real-time observed weather - Reported wind direction, wind speed and temperature)
✅ 50k+ Airports searchable by ICAO and IATA, including runway info, decoded & raw METARs, TAF and NOTAMs
✅ 1500+ Paragliding spots
✅ Detailed wind and wave forecast for any kiting or surfing spot
✅ 55K Weather webcams
✅ Tide forecast
✅ Topographic maps by Mapy.cz and Satellite imagery by Here Maps
✅ English + 40 other world languages
✅ Now with Wear OS application (Forecast, Radar, Tiles and Complication)
...and many more
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instagram.com/windy_forecast - Enhanced 15-day ECMWF model
- Enhanced 15-day GFS model
- Hi-Res ACCESS-C model for Australia (1.5km resolution)
- Satellite extrapolation for 1-hour (in Radar+ layer)
- New Notification section for all alerts
- New GUI of favorite items
Improvements:
- Added visibility layer for ACCESS model
- An airport can be displayed on the map (in airport detail)
- Added radar coverage in Tonga
- New Radar+ layer
- Extended 15-day forecast by AIFS
- New Street-Level Heat Maps by meteoblue
- New hi-res model HRDPS
- New hi-res Aladin model from CHMI
- Numerous bug fixes
- Added new precip POI layer showing recent rain
- Completely overhauled station plugin
- Tons of bugfixes
- New lightning source by Nowcast
- New fire danger layers (Fire spread & Fire ignition)
- Revamped "Active fires" layer with new data source from NASA FIRMS
- Tens of bugfixes
- New lightning source by Nowcast
- New fire danger layers (Fire spread & Fire ignition)
- Revamped "Active fires" layer with new data source from NASA FIRMS
- Tens of bugfixes
- New lightning source by Nowcast
- New fire danger layers (Fire spread & Fire ignition)
- Revamped "Active fires" layer with new data source from NASA FIRMS
- Tens of bugfixes
- New lightning source by Nowcast
- New fire danger layers (Fire spread & Fire ignition)
- Revamped "Active fires" layer with new data source from NASA FIRMS
- Tens of bugfixes
- Brand new mobile UI/UX
- Route planner for mobile
- Updated widget UI/UX
- Tons of bug fixes
- Brand new mobile UI/UX
- Route planner for mobile
- Updated widget UI/UX
- Tons of bug fixes
Tens of bugfixes
Tens of bugfixes
- New premium features
- New Satellite archive
- New premium features
- New Satellite archive
- New hurricane tracker
- New sounding/radiosonde plugin
- Satellite improvements
- Added wet-bulb temp, uv index & solar power layers
- Added new webcam widget
- Added daily notifications
- Tens of minor bugfixes
- New radioactivity stations
- New BoM ACCESS and HRRR models
- New hurricane tracker
- Add info when some device permission issue detected
- Tens of minor bugfixes
- Add more weather models to widgets
- UI improvements
- Tens of bugfixes
- New Drought monitoring layers
-- Soil moisture
-- Moisture anomaly
-- Drought intensity
- New widget settings
- Added weather models to widgets: ECMWF, GFS, ICON
- Increased stability and speed (through technology change)
- UI improvements
- Tens of bugfixes
- Stability improvements
- UI improvements
- Tens of bugfixes
- Added thermal layer for NAM model
- UI improvements
- Tens of bugfixes
- Added Thermals layer
- UI improvements
- Tens of bugfixes
- Increased widgets stability
- Added Thermals layer
- UI improvements
- Tens of bugfixes
- Increased widgets stability
- Increased stability and speed (through technology change)
- METAR update can be sent via push notification
- Support new GFS WAVE
- UI improvements
- Tens of bugfixes
- minor bug fixes
- support for ICON GLOBAL model
- support for CMEMS model
- mobile design improvements
- tens of tweaks and improvements
- bug fixes
* New features for premium users (such as changing default startup layer)
* Satellite improvements
* Tens of small improvements and bug fixes
* Windy Alerts as push notifications
* New high visibility satellite layer - BLUE
* Satellite optical flow
* Route planner enables to store any route as favourite (for logged-in users only)
* Tens of small improvements and bug fixes
* Widget bug fixes
* Widget bug fixes
* Windy Premium: 6 hour update intervals for ECMWF forecast
* Improve favourites and alerts synchronization
* Significant bug fixes
* Widget improvements
* Add air quality info
* Add new layers - surface ozone, SO2
* Some minor and major bugfixes
* Minor subscription improvements
* Bug fixes
* Windy Premium subscription: Get 1h detailed forecast for most forecast models including ECMWF
* Improver webcam viewer
* Satellite images viewer improved
* Tens of small improvements and bug fixes
* Windy Premium subscription: Get 1h detailed forecast for most forecast models including ECMWF
* Improver webcam viewer
* Satellite images viewer improved
* Tens of small improvements and bug fixes
New webcams detail. Open any webcams detail and slide with your finger to check previous weather.
Several bug fixes and improvements.
Improved satellite map now in the mobile app, the map is now sharper, faster, and more recent.
Several bug fixes and improvements.
New: Worldwide satellite layer
New: Air Quality data: NO2, PM2.5, Aerosols, the Ozone layer based on Copernicus data
New: Extreme forecast - displays unusually low or high temperature, wind or precipitation
New: Outdoor map with picker resolving approximate elevation. How do you like it?
Many bug fixes and optimizations
New: Air Quality data: NO2, PM2.5, Aerosols, the Ozone layer based on Copernicus data
New: Extreme forecast - displays unusually low or high temperature, wind or precipitation
New: Outdoor map with picker resolving approximate elevation. How do you like it?
Many bug fixes and optimizations
- New: "Observation vs. Forecast". Compare observed values with forecasted ones.
- New: Model AROME 1.3km in central Europe
- Many fixes and optimizations
- New donations page. Please donate as an in-app purchase to keep us going
- New Sounding Forecast (long tap on the map to activate it)
- Much more improved fog forecast
- New Weather Warnings published by official weather institutions (so-called CAP Alerts)
- Several issues fixed
- New donations page. Please donate as an in-app purchase to keep us going
- New Sounding Forecast (long tap on the map to activate it)
- Much more improved fog forecast
- New Weather Warnings published by official weather institutions (so-called CAP Alerts)
- Fixed Celsius/Fahrenheit issue on Widget (at least we hope so)
Completely new WIND VIEW for any location in the world.
Map labels are now localized to your language and they load faster.
Many issues fixed.
Real-time lightning data in the radar layer with sound effects and vibrations. Data obtained from Lightningmaps.org.
Added new two layers: gust accumulation and thunderstorms.
Widget Improvements:
- Radar widget supports new radar format (radar 2.0).
- Better resizable widgets with the settings button.
Due to those improvements, it will be necessary to set up the widget again. We are sorry about any inconvenience.
- Added European & Japan weather radar composites
- New Thunderstorms layer based on ECMWF forecast
- Radar widget will be updated soon
• Webcams are now faster and contain timelapse for the past 24 hours.
• Various UI, stability and performance improvements.
• Expert mode, when activated quick menu does not fold or unfold its items.
- Finally with tide forecast!!!!- Bug fixes
Fixes bug, some airports were not clickable
- Detailed ICON-EU 7km forecast model- Rain, snow accumulations also for other models- Pressure isolines are now 100x faster- Faster start-up of app
- Detailed ICON-EU 7km forecast model- Rain, snow accumulations also for other models- Pressure isolines are now 100x faster- Faster start-up of app
- New widgets for true experts: Rain radar & timeline- Meteogram now contains pressure and dew point- Weather picker stays in place during zoom- Wind & wave directions can be displayed as text or number- "Find my location" now creates blue point on a map
Completely new wave forecast including waves-radar and secondary swell for WW3
- Weather Picker is back on single click on map- Widget contains reload button- Another Widget fixes.
- Weather radar for US, South Korea, Puerto Rico, Guam- Pressure isolines- Scrolling of spot forecast changes time on a map
Fixed bug, that prevented (on some devices) to edit Alert. Otherwise no changes in app at all.
In case of problems please upgrade https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.webview and then try to reinstall Windy App fully (delete it and install it again)
- Localized map labels (change localized/english map labels in the settings)- Performance optimizations (20-30% faster start-up)- Bug fixes
New map with more visible borders and labels
A little bit cleaner User Interface. More swipe gestures and everything is now in reach of your thumb.