Frequently asked questions

Yes — completely free, no account or sign-up required to check any spot's forecast.

589 kite, wing and foil spots across 82 countries and every continent, each with its own wind direction, typical speed range, season, skill level and water type. New spots are added from rider submissions all the time — suggest one if yours is missing.

Yes — tap the star on any spot to favorite it. Favorites are saved in your browser and power the current-conditions view, which ranks your favorited spots by current wind conditions.

Forecasts are pulled live from Open-Meteo, which blends several national weather models (including MeteoSwiss, DWD, and NOAA depending on region). If a live forecast can't be fetched for a spot, the site shows an illustrative estimate instead and labels it clearly as such.

Each forecasted wind speed is matched to a rough kite or wing size for twintip, foil, and wing separately, color-coded by how workable that size is. Sizes assume an all-round rider around 75kg and are a starting reference, not a substitute for your own judgment on the day.

Sign in, then open any spot and tap "🏄 I kited here" to check off which disciplines you rode there — Twintip, Foil, Directional, Wing, or Windsurf. Every spot you check counts toward your total — check the Show Off Wall to see how you stack up.

Tap the record button at the bottom of the app to go live — other riders will see you as a blue pin on the map at your spot. Tap it again to end your live session (or reply "done for today" if we check in with you after a few hours). Going live is separate from recording your actual session on your Garmin or Apple Watch, which works exactly as it does today.

The WGG watch app runs on 34 Garmin models — fēnix, epix, Forerunner and Instinct 3 AMOLED — and on 14 Apple Watch models, Series 4 and later, including every Ultra and SE.

The full, always-current list is on the watch compatibility page — it comes from the same place the watch app's own device list does, so it can't drift out of date.

Space Mode is the full session tracker: it detects jumps, measures height, airtime and landing G-force, identifies rotations and tricks, and records your GPS track, speed and heart rate.

Earth Mode is a simplified speed & distance screen for hardware that can't reliably time a jump.

Which one you get is decided by your watch, not by the model. The first time you open the app it asks the watch how fast its accelerometer can actually sample — 50 Hz or more and you get Space Mode. To check: open WGG on the watch and look for a Mission item in the menu. If it's there, jump detection works and that's where you switch modes. If it isn't, the watch runs Earth Mode. More on watch compatibility.

Rotations and trick type need a gyroscope too, checked separately — a watch without one still records height, airtime, distance and landing G-force.

Open the Connect IQ store — either in the Garmin Connect app on your phone or at apps.garmin.com — search for WGG, and install it to your watch. It then appears in your watch's activity list like any other sport.

No. The watch records the whole session on its own — jumps, track, speed and heart rate — with no phone nearby.

Your phone is only needed afterwards, to sync the finished session to your Windy Guide account so it appears in your history and on the rankings.

The Garmin watch app itself works the same whether your phone is an iPhone or an Android — it doesn't care.

What's iPhone-only today is the companion app that carries a finished session from the watch to your account. An Android companion is in development and being tested now. Until it ships, Android riders can still use every part of the website, and log sessions manually.

Gusty's First Ride — a short tale from Planet Eol.

On the wind-swept cliffs of Planet Eol, where the sky is always the colour of fresh oranges and the air tastes faintly of salt and stardust, lived a little teal whirlwind named Gusty.

Most Eolians spent their days riding the endless thermals, racing cloud-hares, or polishing their wind-vane antennae. Gusty did all of that too — until the day the Blue Comet fell.

It wasn't a real comet. It was an old Earth kiteboard, somehow flung across the galaxy, that crashed into the Crystal Lagoon with a splash loud enough to wake every star in the sector. When Gusty pulled it from the water, something strange happened — the board still hummed with the memory of waves and wind. The moment he stood on it, a soft ocean breeze (the first true ocean breeze Eol had ever felt) wrapped around him like a friend.

He laughed. Then he flew.

For the first time, Gusty felt the perfect marriage of wind and water. He carved across the lagoon, jumped over floating islands of ice-crystal, and left trails of glowing spray that looked like miniature rainbows. The other Eolians watched in disbelief. "Water?" they cried. "We're wind people!" Gusty just grinned, antennae bobbing, and shouted back, "Then you've never danced with both!"

Word spread faster than a solar wind. Soon little Gusty was the unofficial ambassador of "wet wind sports." He built the first kite-lines from glowing spider-silk, taught the shy fog-spirits how to edge a board, and even convinced a grumpy storm-giant to stop raining on the lagoon during lessons.

Now, on clear galactic nights, if you look toward the constellation of the Dancing Kite, you might see a tiny turquoise figure carving luminous arcs across a silver lagoon. And if you ever find yourself near Planet Eol — the Windy Guide of the Galaxy knows the coordinates — don't be surprised if a cheerful voice calls out: "Hey! Got room for one more? The wind's perfect today, and the water's waiting." Gusty will already have a spare board ready for you.