How it works
- Pick a starting point, car or bike, and how long you’re willing to travel.
- It measures real drive or ride times on the road network to hundreds of spots around you.
- For each spot, it checks the hourly forecast for when you’d arrive and the hours you’d stay, today or tomorrow.
- It ranks places by clear skies, sunshine, dry weather and a comfortable temperature, and favors shorter trips.
Questions
Where is it sunny near me right now?
Search for your town or use your location, then press Find sunshine. The map shades everywhere you can reach by how sunny it will be when you get there, and the list shows the best places.
What do the lines on the map mean?
They’re travel-time contours, also called isochrones. Everything inside the “1 h” line is within an hour’s drive or ride of your starting point, using real roads.
What does the score mean?
It rates the hours you’d spend somewhere from 0 to 100. Most of it is how clear the sky is, with low cloud counting most and thin high cloud counting little. Then it checks whether it stays dry, and whether the temperature and wind are comfortable. 80 or more is a properly sunny day.
How does it pick the place?
It looks for the sunniest place within your travel time, however far. When two places get about the same sunshine, the closer one wins. It only suggests going if the difference is meaningful: at least a fifth more of your stay in sunshine than at home (36 minutes on a 3-hour stay). Otherwise it tells you you’re already in the sunniest spot.
Can I plan a trip for tomorrow?
Yes. Choose Tomorrow, then a departure time, or Best time to try every half hour through the day. After sunset it switches to tomorrow on its own.
What does the rain radar show?
The last hour of real weather radar, then a forecast of where rain will be over the next few hours, from NOAA’s high-resolution model. Coloured areas are rain, from light (blue and green) to heavy (yellow to red); no colour means dry. After a search, tap “Arrive” on the timeline to see the rain at the time you’d get there. It covers the continental US.
Is it free?
Yes. There’s no account and no ads. It runs on free, open data: Open-Meteo forecasts (NOAA’s models in the US) and OpenStreetMap roads and maps.
How accurate is it?
As accurate as the forecast: very good for the next few hours, less certain a day ahead. Check the weather before you set off.