Turbulence map for your route
Weather maps show a region at one moment. Your flight is a line drawn through weather that keeps moving while you cross it. This map shows the second thing.
Scrub the turbulence map hour by hour
The map carries a scrubber across the whole flight. Slide it and the aircraft moves along the route while the weather underneath it updates to that hour — so you can see a storm line that is on your path at 14:00 and a hundred kilometres behind you by 16:00.
Four layers sit on top of the globe, each independently switchable. Turbulence is painted at your flight's own cruise altitude, not at the surface. Winds aloft animates the jet stream as moving particles, which makes it obvious why a westbound crossing takes an hour longer. Storms shows the cells that matter, and cloud is there because sometimes you just want to know whether you will see anything out of the window.
A turbulence map built at your altitude, on your route
- ✓Your filed route, when there is one. Airlines rarely fly the straight line — the map follows the track actually filed, so the weather it shows is the weather you will actually cross.
- ✓Painted at cruise level. Turbulence at 38,000 feet has almost nothing to do with the weather at ground level. Most maps show you the ground.
- ✓Terrain, satellite, standard or dark. Because a jet-stream crossing reads differently over the Atlantic than over the Alps.
- ✓A ride summary in the sheet. The picture is the evidence; the sentence underneath is the answer.
Turbulence map questions
Is the turbulence map free?
The turbulence forecast card — the ride along your route in words and a chart — is free for every flight, with no cap. The full map with the layers and the time scrubber is part of FlyBud Pro. Free accounts still see the route drawn on the map.
What altitude does it show?
Your flight's own cruise altitude, estimated from the stage length and refined once the aircraft is actually up and reporting. Turbulence is strongly layered: air can be rough at 30,000 feet and glassy at 38,000, which is exactly why crews sometimes ask for a level change.
How often does the weather update?
With each new global model run, several times a day, plus pilot reports folded in through the day. The map always shows which run it is drawing.
Can I see the jet stream?
Yes — the winds layer animates it. It is usually the clearest explanation of why the outbound and return legs of the same route have different flight times, and where the bumpiest part of a crossing will be.
See your route's weather.
Add a flight and the map builds itself around it.