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Wind at Altitude

Real wind speed and direction at 10/80/120/180m for any location.

Planning aid only — not certified flight-planning software or airspace clearance. Always verify results against your own aircraft's manual and check current regulations before flying. Full disclaimer.

Location

Why altitude matters

Wind measured at your feet is not a reliable predictor of wind at 100+ meters — surface friction from terrain and buildings slows near-ground wind, so it's common for wind to be noticeably stronger (and from a different direction) once you climb. This matters most for return-to-home battery margin and for any flight that spends real time above 10m.

Data

This is real modeled data at each of the 4 heights Open-Meteo distinctly represents — not an estimate or interpolation. Gusts are only published at 10m by the underlying model, so no gust figure is shown for the higher bands.

These are the only heights the underlying weather model distinctly represents for a given location — intermediate heights like 50m or 150m aren't separately modeled.

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