Free Drone Tools
Free calculators and planning tools for drone pilots, photographers, surveyors and UAV operators — genuinely useful on their own, and built on the same real weather and flyability engine as the rest of UAV Meteo.
Weather & Flight
Drone Wind CalculatorPopularCheck current wind and gusts against your drone's real safety margin.Flight Time / Battery CalculatorEstimate practical flight time from your rated capacity, wind, cold and payload.Golden Hour CalculatorNewSunrise, sunset, golden hour and blue hour for any location and date.Wind at AltitudeReal wind speed and direction at 10/80/120/180m for any location.Flight Condition CheckerA quick right-now GOOD/CAUTION/NOT RECOMMENDED read on current conditions.Propeller & Drone Icing CalculatorNewAssess atmospheric icing hazard, dew point spread, and propeller thrust loss percentage.Drone Weather ConfidenceNewHow much do the weather models agree about your wind? Compare ECMWF, GFS and ICON for any hour.Drone Pre-Flight BriefNewA timestamped, shareable brief: weather for your window, rain, airport observation, airspace, NOTAMs and your decision.Drone Rain Radar & Rain WindowNewWill rain reach your flight? Arrival time, nearest rain and a radar loop for the next hours.Local Weather Observation vs ForecastNewCompare the forecast with the nearest airport's live wind, gusts and visibility.Drone Ground Speed & Wind CalculatorNewHeadwind, crosswind, crab angle, ground speed and flight time for both legs of your route.Return-to-Home CalculatorNewCheck if your drone's battery can beat the wind home from here.Thermal & Updraft Risk CalculatorNewCAPE-based thermal turbulence risk for fixed-wing and glider pilots.
Mapping & Survey
GSD CalculatorPopularGround sample distance and footprint from your camera and flight altitude.FOV CalculatorYour camera's field of view and ground coverage at a given altitude.Coverage CalculatorNewFlight lines, image count and mission time to cover a survey area.Overlap CalculatorFlight-line and capture spacing from your image footprint and overlap %.Area CalculatorDraw or enter a survey area on the map — get area and perimeter.Mission PlannerNewDraw a survey area and get real boustrophedon flight lines, image count and time.Coordinate ConverterNewConvert between decimal degrees, DMS and UTM — paste either format in.Photo Interval / Motion Blur CalculatorNewShutter interval for your overlap target, plus motion-blur risk at your shutter speed.