Know when to ride.The ride forecast for cyclists.

Velvind forecasts your ride kilometre by kilometre: the wind, rain, cold and daylight at the minute you get there. You'll see when to leave, which way round to ride, and whether you're home before dark.

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See it on a real ride

Krokskogen, 88 km, Tuesday 10:00: the wind along the ride, a tailwind home.

Why a ride needs its own forecast

Kilometre 60 has its own weather.

A ride moves through the day and across the map. Velvind times yours first, from your usual speed, the climbs and the wind, then reads the forecast where you'll be at each minute of it.

  • Headwind on the way home?

    The wind is turned against the way the road points, kilometre by kilometre, and your time is worked out with it. Velvind says which part of the ride is into it: the way out, the way home, or none of it. When the wind turns during the ride, it says if the loop is kinder the other way round.

  • Will it rain on me?

    Rain where you are when it falls, not where you started: 25 minutes of showers near Sollihøgda from 15:48, on the Saturday below, if you leave at 13:00.

  • Back before dark?

    Your finish time against sunset, and the minute you'll need lights on the way home.

  • When should I leave?

    Every half hour of the next nine days, read the same way. marks the kindest start of the day and of the week.

Try it

Same loop. Different ride.

Krokskogen is 88 km from Majorstuen: out by Bærums Verk, over the forest to Sundvollen, home along the fjord. Drag the start. On Saturday the showers arrive in the afternoon; on Tuesday the wind turns round after lunch.

Try a live example on today's forecast

In the app

Made for the minute before you clip in.

  • Today in Velvind, Sunday 07:30 in the dark: “Wait for the warmth on Krokskogen: ⚡12:00 is dry, 1° and light winds.” Now feels −4° with lights for 35 minutes; the kindest start feels 1° in daylight all ride.

    Today: go now, or wait

    Today opens on the ride you usually do and answers the morning's question: leave now, or wait for the light, the warmth or the rain to pass.

  • The Routes tab, “Kindest if you leave now”: Krokskogen, Maridalen, Bygdøy & Snarøya, Nesodden and Skar, each with its distance, climb, time and a line on the ride if you leave now.

    Routes: the best one for now

    Your routes in the order they ride if you leave now: dry first, then the wind and the cold. Bring them from Strava, a GPX, TCX or FIT file, or a Ride with GPS link.

  • A group ride in Velvind, Fornebu, Sunday 10:00 from Majorstuen: “A gentle day — dry with light winds. Full gloves.” Meet 09:45, wheels roll 10:00, back 11:17, the I'm in, If dry and Can't buttons, and the meeting point on the map.

    Group rides: one link

    Everyone reads the same forecast for the same start and answers I'm in, If dry or Can't. No account needed to answer.

  • The Rides tab: this week's rides and group rides by day, each with when you're back and whether it stays dry, and the ones later on.

    Rides: a word when it turns

    Add a ride and Velvind keeps watching it. If its forecast turns, you hear once, by push or email. If nothing changes, nothing arrives.

How the forecast is read

The small print, up front

  • The forecast

    Hourly forecasts from Open-Meteo for every 11 km patch of sky along the route. In the Nordics, the app reads the next two hours from MET Norway's radar nowcast.

  • Your routes

    From Strava, a GPX, TCX or FIT file, or a Ride with GPS link. Routes from Strava are shown only to you.

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  • Your data

    No advertising, no selling or sharing of your data, no third-party trackers. Made by one person in Norway. Privacy

Coming to the App Store.

Velvind for iPhone, with widgets and a Live Activity for the ride you've added. Leave your email and we'll write once, when it's out.

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