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Weather intelligence for motorcyclists

Know When to Ride

Temperature, rain, wind, visibility, road grip and daylight in one 0–100 ride score. Search any place on earth and see whether the next corner is worth suiting up for — now, and hour by hour for the next seven days.

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No account needed. Create a free one to score every hour against your own comfort settings.

  • No login required
  • No cookies, no trackers
  • Any location worldwide
  • Open-Meteo weather data

7-day forecast

The whole week at a glance

One score per hour from right now to seven days out. Scroll the hourly strip, compare days in the overview, and watch score and rainfall move together on the chart, with fog shaded where it makes riding a no. Every hour opens into a breakdown that shows exactly which factor cost the points.

  • Hourly scores with temperature, colour-coded from Perfect to No-Go
  • Daily overview with the best score, highs and lows and conditions
  • Per-factor breakdown with warnings and highlights for any hour
RideWindow forecast page for Stelvio Pass showing a ride score of 90, Perfect, at 9.5 °C and mainly clear, above a strip of hourly scores
Stelvio Pass, live from ridewindow.online. The pass scores 90 at 9.5 °C — cold, but dry, calm and clear.
RideWindow's Best Ride Windows list for Stelvio Pass: five eight-hour windows across the week scoring 94, 94, 91, 88 and 85
Five plannable slots instead of one vague “nice week”.

Ride windows

Your week, pre-planned

RideWindow reads the seven-day forecast, keeps only the hours scoring 60 or better, and joins them into windows of two to eight hours inside a single local day. Long good stretches are trimmed to their strongest hours. The top five are ranked by average score, so the answer to “when this week?” is a list, not a guess.

Works for any place you search. With an account, your dashboard shows the next best window for your primary location the moment you open it.

Route scoring

Score the whole ride, not just the start

A pass at 2,700 m does not share weather with the valley you leave from. Upload a GPX from Kurviger, Calimoto, Garmin, Komoot or any planner, say when you leave and roughly how fast you ride, and every stretch is scored for the hour you will actually be there — then rolled up into one number for the ride.

  • Up to fifteen samples at least 10 km apart, each scored at your ETA
  • The weakest stretch named, with the reason
  • A No-Go stretch makes the ride a No-Go — you cannot average your way through black ice
  • No account needed; the file is scored in memory and never stored
Score a route
RideWindow route score for Bormio – Stelvio – Merano: 85, Great, 68 km in 1 h 22 min, the weakest stretch at km 10 flagged, and the route drawn with a score at every stretch
Bormio to Merano over the Stelvio. The summit stretch at km 10 is 8 °C while the valleys sit at 18–23 °C — one score for the ride, and the reason it is not higher.

How the score works

Six factors, one honest number

Weather apps tell you it will be 14 °C and cloudy. They do not tell you the road is still wet from the 5 am shower or that the gusts will push you across the lane on the ridge. RideWindow weighs each factor by what it does to a rider and adds them up to 100.

Precipitation

up to 25 pts

Rain falling now and the chance of rain this hour. Heavy rain scores nothing; even a 30% chance costs points.

Temperature

up to 20 pts

Scored against your own comfort range, not a generic one.

Wind

up to 20 pts

Sustained speed, with a penalty when gusts run well above it. Over your own limit it scores nothing.

Road condition

up to 15 pts

Hours since the last rain, and temperature. Wet tarmac costs grip long after the shower; near-freezing and wet scores nothing.

Visibility

up to 10 pts

Full points above 10 km, nothing under 500 m. You cannot ride what you cannot see.

Daylight

up to 10 pts

Full points in daylight; dark hours count only if you say you ride at night.

Three vetoes force a score of 0

  • Below 2 °C with rain in the last two hours — black-ice risk
  • Visibility under 200 m
  • Wind gusts above 90 km/h

No preference setting can override a veto. Points are for comfort; vetoes are for coming home.

What the number means

  • 90–100 Perfect
  • 75–89 Great
  • 60–74 Good
  • 40–59 Marginal
  • 20–39 Poor
  • 0–19 No-Go
Rider leaning over a naked sport motorcycle as the sun sets behind an open field
Catch the golden hour instead of the downpour.
Two motorcyclists riding toward the camera on a curving tree-lined road in autumn
8 °C is a great morning for one rider and a hard no for another. Tell RideWindow which one you are.

Free account

Same forecast, scored for you

Everything on this page works without signing in. An account changes one thing that matters: the score stops being generic.

Scores tuned to you
Set your comfort temperature range, the wind you will tolerate, how much rain risk you accept, whether you ride in the dark or on wet roads, and your experience level. Every score on every page is recomputed against those settings.
Your roads, one dashboard
Save the places you actually ride — home, the office, the pass you keep going back to — and see their current scores side by side.
The week as a heatmap
Your primary location gets a seven-day, hour-by-hour heatmap and a banner with the next best ride window, so Sunday plans itself on Tuesday.
Yours to delete
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Questions riders ask

What is a RideWindow ride score?
A 0–100 number for one hour at one place, built from six weather factors: precipitation (up to 25 points), temperature (20), wind (20), road condition (15), visibility (10) and daylight (10). 90–100 is Perfect, 75–89 Great, 60–74 Good, 40–59 Marginal, 20–39 Poor, 0–19 No-Go.
When does the score drop to zero?
Three safety vetoes override everything else: a temperature below 2 °C with rain in the last two hours (black-ice risk), visibility below 200 metres, and wind gusts above 90 km/h. Any one of them forces a score of 0.
What is a ride window?
A run of consecutive hours within one local day that all score 60 or higher, between 2 and 8 hours long. RideWindow ranks the windows of the next seven days by average score and shows the top five.
Do I need an account?
Searching a location, the 7-day forecast and the ride windows all work without signing in. A free account adds route scoring, personal comfort preferences that every score is recomputed against, saved locations and routes, and a dashboard with a weekly heatmap.
Where does the weather data come from?
From Open-Meteo, a free open weather API with worldwide coverage. RideWindow caches each location's weather for 15 minutes, so a score is never more than 15 minutes behind the source, and does the scoring itself.
Is RideWindow free, and what does it track?
RideWindow is free. It sets no cookies and runs no third-party analytics, advertising or social-media trackers. It only counts, anonymously, how often each page is opened per day and what kind of site, such as a search engine, sent the visit. The only third party contacted from your browser is OpenStreetMap: Nominatim when you search for a place, and its map tiles on pages that show a map.
Can it score a whole route, not just one place?
Yes, with a free account. Upload a GPX from any planner, set your departure time and average speed, and RideWindow samples the route at up to fifteen points at least 10 km apart, scores each one for the hour you will reach it, and averages them by distance. If any stretch rates No-Go, the whole ride is a No-Go. Saving a route keeps only its shape, never a score, so opening it later re-scores it against the latest forecast.

More detail on how the score works and on privacy.

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