About RideWindow

RideWindow answers one question Metro Vancouver cyclists ask constantly: is it actually going to rain on my ride? Pick one of the curated local routes and it checks current conditions and the short-term precipitation forecast at each checkpoint along the way, instead of a single city-wide forecast that might miss what’s happening up a specific valley or mountain road. Built for Metro Vancouver, but the custom route checker works anywhere — paste a RideWithGPS link for any route and it’ll pull live conditions for it.

How it works

Every route is broken into one or more checkpoints — for a short loop that might just be the start; for something like the Sea-to-Sky corridor, it’s several points spread along the way. Each checkpoint is checked independently, then rolled up into a single traffic-light indicator for the whole route (worst case wins — one wet checkpoint makes the route yellow or red, even if the rest looks clear).

Data sources

Conditions come from Environment Canada’s public citypage weather data — current observations plus an hourly short-term precipitation-probability forecast from the nearest available station. When no Environment Canada station is close enough to be useful (this comes up for mountain checkpoints like climb summits), it falls back to OpenWeatherMap’s free tier instead. Every checkpoint card shows which source it used and, for Environment Canada, how far away that station actually is.

Custom routes

Don’t see your route in the list? Paste a public RideWithGPS link on the custom route page and it’ll pull the GPX track, sample a few checkpoints along it, and check those the same way.

No login, no tracking

Nothing to sign up for. Weather is fetched fresh on demand — hit refresh on a route page any time for the latest reading.