Weather intelligence built for how you actually train
RideByWeather exists to answer one question every cyclist, runner, and walker asks before heading out: is now a good time to go? Generic weather apps give you raw numbers — temperature, a wind arrow, a rain percentage — and leave you to do the math. We do the math for you, and tune it to your sport.
What we do
We collapse the half-dozen weather factors that make or break a session into a single 0–10 Ride Score for each hour — so you can glance at the next 48 hours and instantly see your best window. Alongside the score we add wind-aware routing (ride out into the wind, home with it), gear recommendations from the live feels-like temperature, and city-by-city guides to local conditions.
How the Ride Score is calculated
The score is a transparent weighting of the factors that matter most to people moving under their own power. It is not a black box — here is what goes into it:
Wind & gusts
Weighted heaviest — it affects every minute of a ride and can't be paced around like heat or dressed around like cold.
Temperature & feels-like
Wind chill in the cold, heat index in the heat — what your body actually experiences.
Precipitation
Probability, intensity, and timing, plus storm and lightning risk.
Humidity
How efficiently you can shed heat — the hidden driver of hot-weather difficulty.
Visibility & safety
Fog, storms, and low-light conditions that change how safe a session is.
Your sport & profile
A gravel rider, road racer, runner, and walker each weight wind, heat, and humidity differently.
Read the scale in plain English in What Is a Good Ride Score?
Our data & methodology
RideByWeather draws on professional numerical weather models for hourly forecasts of wind, temperature, precipitation, humidity, and air quality, refreshed continuously. We don't re-forecast the weather — we interpret the best available forecasts through the lens of cycling, running, and walking, applying sport-specific weightings and the same wind-chill and heat-index math the National Weather Service uses. Every claim in our guides and articles is written to match what the data actually supports.
Who it's for
Commuters timing the dry window, weekend riders chasing the calmest morning, runners pacing around the heat index, and anyone who'd rather not gamble on the forecast. If your plans depend on the weather, RideByWeather is built for you.
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