Routes that fight the wind so you don't have to

The problem

On a flat, open ride the wind is the hill

An out-and-back that felt effortless on the way out turns into forty minutes of grinding on the way home, and nothing on the map warned you — the map does not know which way the air is moving. Wind Ride does, and it plans accordingly.

A loop comes back to where it started, so whatever the wind gives you one way, you pay for on the other. What you can choose is when: slide the wind strategy towards headwind first and you meet it early, while you are fresh, then ride the tailwind home; slide it the other way and the tailwind comes first. Balanced, in the middle, crosses the wind both ways and is the fastest overall. Try it: each of the five settings on the slider is a real loop from Utrecht, planned for the same 22 km/h south-westerly.

Automatic Manual

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Round trip One-way

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Drag

Headwind firstBalancedTailwind first

Balanced — 46.8 km

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• Three routes to choose from By default every plan comes back as three loops — green, red and blue — the three best different shapes from one search. Compare their distance, wind score and time, keep the one that suits the day, and click any of them to watch it ridden minute by minute.
  

  

  3x routes

  51.3 km-6.962h04

  48.5 km-5.371h54

  50.6 km-5.682h01
• The best time to leave Already have a route? Best time to leave scores the same roads for every start hour over the next three days, marks the best one, and flags the hours with rain, a thunderstorm, strong wind or darkness. One click and your start moves there.
  Best time to leave×

  Best:Tomorrow 10:00 · wind +0.46· dry · 1h54Use this time

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  worsebetteryour startbest💧 rain⚡ storm💨 winddark
• Weather warnings on the map Rain, thunderstorms, gusts and strong sustained wind inside your ride window — read for the hours you are actually out, not the day as a whole.
  

  ⚠gusts up to 68 km/h expected during the ride

  ⚠rain likely during the ride (85% chance, up to 4.2 mm/h)
• Road works, where we know about them Where published closure data covers your area, affected stretches are marked on the map so you can see one before you meet it. It is an extra pair of eyes, not a guarantee — treat anything unmarked as unknown and ride to what is actually in front of you.
  
• Favourites, and a message when the wind suits them Star the loops you ride again and again and they stay at the top of your rides. Give one a day and a start time, and the evening before you get a notification — but only if the wind suits that route and no thunderstorm, strong wind or rain is forecast. No good wind, no message.
  

  Wind Ridenow

  Good wind for the flat one

  Saturday 09:00 — the wind suits this route. Better than this loop usually gets. Or have it reshaped for tomorrow's wind.

  Favourites (2)

  50.8 kmthe flat one

  1h54 · wind 0.4 · 18 km/h wind

  ★◷↓

  38.6 kmto the river

  1h31 · wind 0.2 · 14 km/h wind

  ★◷↓
• Bring your own route Import a GPX, TCX or KML from Garmin, Komoot, RideWithGPS or Strava and Wind Ride scores it against the forecast without changing a metre of it. You get the same wind colouring, the same timeline and the same download — on the route you already planned.
  GPX import

  Bring in a route you already planned — Garmin Connect, Komoot, RideWithGPS, Strava — and see it against the wind.

  ↑ Drop a file here, or click to browse GPX, TCX or KML — tracks, routes and waypoint lists
• In your browser, or as an app on Google Play Wind Ride is an online service: open windride.win in any browser, or install the Wind Ride app from Google Play. It is the same service and the same account everywhere, so your rides and favourites come along, and the app is never out of date. On a phone the map fills the screen and the controls fold away into a sheet at the bottom.
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