Echelon

Race weather

Not the forecast for the start town at seven o'clock: the weather at each point of the course, at the time you get there.

Headwind, crosswind or tailwind for every 200 m of road, on a map of your course.
Temperature, rain and gusts along the course, over the elevation profile, and a table of time checks.
Start times compared: the same ride started up to three hours earlier or later.
Your course stays in your own database. Only rounded forecast points go to the weather service, from our server, without your name.
How each number is worked out is on the method page.

Example race · Alpine loop · Saturday 14 June 2025

An example: Glandon, Galibier, Alpe d'Huez

From Bourg d'Oisans over the Glandon, Télégraphe and Galibier to Alpe d'Huez, started on 14 June 2025 at 07:00 and ridden at the pace the example's pacing plan predicts, in the real forecast for that day:

The ride

Start time 07:00

Finish 15:47 after 8:47 moving, as pacing predicts

Sun up – down 05:48 – 21:24

Start times compared

The same ride started up to three hours earlier or later, with the share of the course into the wind and behind it.

04:00 15% headwind · 18% tailwind · 13–29°C · rain 23% · 28.1 km in the dark least headwind
05:00 17% headwind · 10% tailwind · 15–31°C · rain 30% · 17.1 km in the dark
06:00 21% headwind · 13% tailwind · 16–32°C · rain 35%
07:00 27% headwind · 13% tailwind · 17–34°C · rain 35% yours
08:00 29% headwind · 15% tailwind · 18–34°C · rain 35%
09:00 30% headwind · 16% tailwind · 18–34°C · rain 43%
10:00 29% headwind · 23% tailwind · 18–34°C · rain 43%

Headwind
Crosswind
Tailwind
Calm

The forecast

Forecast by Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0), recorded for this example; times are local at the start (CEST). Wind is the forecast at 10 m; on the road you usually feel less. How it is worked out.

Saturday 14 June 2025 · 176.7 km · 4726 m climbing · at the times the example's pacing plan predicts, 20.1 km/h on average

Sat 14 Jun07:00 – 15:47

% into the wind

Temp: 17–34°C
Feels like: 15–34°C
Gusts: 42 km/h
Rain: 35%
Rain on the road: 0 mm
In the dark: –

Wind along the course, by distance

Course map

Red headwind, amber crosswind, green tailwind. Arrows point where the wind blows; numbers mark the km. Bigger arrows, stronger wind; the dashed tail reaches to the gusts. Map images come through our server: no map provider sees you or your course.

Along the course

Orange line: temperature. Bars: wind speed, coloured by how it meets you, and rain chance. Shaded: ridden in the dark. Along the bottom the km and the time you get there; hover for the numbers.

Time checks

km	Time	Elev.	Temp	Wind	Rain	Sky
0	07:00	720 m	19°C feels 19°C	1 km/h from S Calm · gusts 2 km/h	0%	Overcast
5	07:09	713 m	21°C feels 20°C	5 km/h from SW Calm · gusts 6 km/h	0%	Overcast
10	07:20	764 m	20°C feels 20°C	3 km/h from NW Calm · gusts 8 km/h	0%	Overcast
15	07:35	878 m	20°C feels 21°C	3 km/h from NE Calm · gusts 5 km/h	0%	Partly cloudy
20	08:06	1280 m	20°C feels 19°C	7 km/h from E Crosswind · gusts 10 km/h	18%	Partly cloudy
25	08:26	1427 m	19°C feels 18°C	7 km/h from E Headwind · gusts 14 km/h	18%	Partly cloudy
30	08:54	1778 m	17°C feels 17°C	6 km/h from SW Tailwind · gusts 31 km/h	25%	Overcast
35	09:09	1887 m	17°C feels 15°C	17 km/h from SW Tailwind · gusts 38 km/h	28% 0.1 mm	Overcast
40	09:14	1487 m	20°C feels 21°C	3 km/h from NE Calm · gusts 14 km/h	28%	Overcast
45	09:19	1122 m	22°C feels 23°C	2 km/h from NE Calm · gusts 16 km/h	10%	Overcast
50	09:25	832 m	22°C feels 24°C	5 km/h from SE Crosswind · gusts 18 km/h	10%	Overcast
55	09:30	470 m	25°C feels 27°C	2 km/h from SW Calm · gusts 12 km/h	3%	Overcast
60	09:39	453 m	25°C feels 28°C	2 km/h from S Calm · gusts 13 km/h	3%	Overcast
65	09:50	491 m	26°C feels 27°C	4 km/h from SW Calm · gusts 10 km/h	8%	Overcast
70	10:01	537 m	27°C feels 27°C	6 km/h from W Tailwind · gusts 9 km/h	13%	Overcast
75	10:14	631 m	27°C feels 27°C	9 km/h from E Headwind · gusts 19 km/h	3%	Overcast
80	10:26	695 m	27°C feels 28°C	5 km/h from NE Calm · gusts 11 km/h	13%	Overcast
85	10:46	914 m	26°C feels 27°C	5 km/h from N Calm · gusts 11 km/h	13%	Overcast
90	11:18	1324 m	24°C feels 24°C	7 km/h from N Tailwind · gusts 25 km/h	13%	Overcast
95	11:38	1530 m	22°C feels 22°C	4 km/h from N Calm · gusts 27 km/h	10%	Overcast
100	11:48	1481 m	22°C feels 22°C	8 km/h from E Crosswind · gusts 29 km/h	30% 0.1 mm	Showers
105	12:09	1731 m	21°C feels 21°C	11 km/h from NE Crosswind · gusts 36 km/h	35%	Showers
110	12:38	2093 m	20°C feels 21°C	9 km/h from W Crosswind · gusts 30 km/h	35%	Overcast
115	13:11	2518 m	17°C feels 16°C	16 km/h from SW Headwind · gusts 41 km/h	23%	Overcast
120	13:21	2358 m	18°C feels 17°C	16 km/h from W Headwind · gusts 42 km/h	23%	Overcast
125	13:26	2030 m	21°C feels 21°C	11 km/h from W Headwind · gusts 31 km/h	23%	Overcast
130	13:31	1740 m	23°C feels 23°C	12 km/h from NW Headwind · gusts 20 km/h	5%	Partly cloudy
135	13:37	1489 m	25°C feels 26°C	14 km/h from W Headwind · gusts 25 km/h	5%	Partly cloudy
140	13:43	1312 m	27°C feels 26°C	19 km/h from W Headwind · gusts 35 km/h	5%	Partly cloudy
145	13:50	1114 m	29°C feels 28°C	20 km/h from NW Headwind · gusts 34 km/h	5%	Overcast
150	13:58	978 m	30°C feels 31°C	13 km/h from W Crosswind · gusts 33 km/h	5%	Overcast
155	14:08	906 m	31°C feels 33°C	9 km/h from NE Tailwind · gusts 25 km/h	5%	Overcast
160	14:15	725 m	34°C feels 34°C	11 km/h from N Crosswind · gusts 22 km/h	0%	Overcast
165	14:27	778 m	32°C feels 33°C	10 km/h from NE Crosswind · gusts 20 km/h	0%	Overcast
170	15:06	1293 m	28°C feels 28°C	9 km/h from NW Crosswind · gusts 20 km/h	13%	Mostly clear
175	15:40	1741 m	24°C feels 22°C	18 km/h from W Crosswind · gusts 31 km/h	0%	Mostly clear
176.7	15:47	1820 m	24°C feels 21°C	18 km/h from W Headwind · gusts 31 km/h	13%	Mostly clear