Version 50 helps you discover more, plan smarter, and stay safer — wherever the sky takes you.

Highlights:

• 🏔️ Avalanche Danger — new layer with official avalanche bulletins
• 🎈🔥 Wind Trajectories — new built-in plugin for hot air balloon for pilots and outdoor safety teams
• ⛵ Passage Planner & The Buoy — new Windy plugins for sailors
• 🛩️ Windy METAR Widget — new Garmin widget for pilots
• 🚴 Windy Data Field on Garmin Edge — with apparent and forecast wind toggle for cyclists

Avalanche Danger — a new layer

Heading into the backcountry? The new Avalanche Danger layer brings official avalanche forecasts straight to the map — across the European Alps, the US, and Canadian mountains. 

Built for ski tourers, splitboarders, mountaineers, and guides who plan their lines around the snow.

Tap any colored region to open the full Avalanche Bulletin: the European 5-level danger rating (Low → Very High) by altitude band, the day's avalanche problems (New Snow, Wind Slab, Persistent Weak Layers, Wet Snow, Gliding Snow) with critical altitude and expected size, plus the issuing authority (AINEVA, LWD, SLF, and other official forecast services), validity window, and the day's Avalanche Activity and Snowpack Structure outlook — straight from the source.

Find it under "Warnings" section in the menu.

Wind Trajectories — a new built-in plugin

The Windy picker has a new arrival for everyone who watches the air move. Wind Trajectories traces where the wind would carry you at any altitude and any forecast hour — scrub the timeline and the path redraws for this afternoon, tomorrow, or beyond.

Built first for hot air balloon pilots, but useful far beyond the basket: glider and light aircraft pre-flight planning, anticipating headwinds, tracking how a storm cell will travel, predicting where wildfire smoke or pollen will land. 

Note: trajectories show horizontal drift only — ascent and descent aren't modeled.

Want ascent and descent factored in? The community-built Traj plugin is here for you, just go to the Windy Plugins in the menu and explore.

Passage Planner & The Buoy — new community-built plugins for boating

Planning a trip at sea? Passage Planner calculates optimal sailing and powerboat routes directly inside Windy — for cruisers, racers, and anyone heading offshore.

It uses isochrone expansion (the routing method professional marine software relies on) to combine your boat's polar performance data with Windy's global forecast models, accounting for wind, ocean currents, swell, and land obstacles. Routes optimize for speed, comfort, and safety.

Editable polars match your vessel's performance. Compare forecast models, set coastal safety margins, use conditional motoring in light winds, add waypoints for multi-leg passages, and save routes for later. With multi-planning, the plugin tests different departure times to identify the best window to depart.

Want live wave conditions to pair with the forecast? The Buoy plugin pulls live wave buoy readings from trusted sources like Candhis and NOAA NDBC. The latest update also lets you compare measured wave heights against the forecasted values — a quick reality check before you head out.

Garmin Updates for Pilots, Cyclists, and Outdoor Users

METAR Widget

The new Windy METAR Widget brings aviation weather directly to your wrist, displaying the nearest METAR reports as well as your favorite ICAO coded airports.
Download now from Connect IQ

Data Field - with improved Wind

The Windy Data Field is now available on Garmin Edge, D2 Mach 2 Pro, and GPSMAP. Built for cyclists and outdoor users, the redesigned field lets you toggle between Apparent Wind and Forecast Wind — with a new traffic-light system that flags headwind, tailwind, and crosswind at a glance.

Download now from Connect IQ

Windy Premium: More Accurate Weather, Smoother Experience

AROME models now has 8 reference times

The high-resolution AROME & AROME-HD forecast models now have 8 reference time updates per day for Windy Premium users, delivering more frequent forecasts for regions and situations where every hour matters.

Smoother webcam playback

Webcam playback is now smoother, with adjustable speed and more fluid transitions between frames. Enjoy less jitter, better flow, and playback speeds of up to 7 times faster with Windy Premium.

New Weather Radars and Smarter Maps

Sharper search, smarter labels

Windy Search and maps have been updated with five years of fresh OpenStreetMap data, making newly mapped and remapped places easier to find. The map is also clearer, with new geographic labels for islands, archipelagos, peninsulas, continents, lakes, seas, bays, and oceans. 

New radars in Europe

Windy’s radar network has expanded with two new stations: Tenerife in the Canary Islands and Salamanca (Guadramiro) in Spain. The update brings sharper radar coverage for pilots, sailors, surfers, and anyone tracking fast-changing weather in the region.

Android and Wear OS Users: Flexi Widget, Hourly Widget & Minor polishing

Two new home screen widgets land in v50. The Flexi Widget is the next-generation daily widget — cleaner layout, sharper data, fully resizable. Alongside it, a redesigned resizable Hourly Widget. 

Wear OS users also get smoother sync between handheld and wearable, plus a cleaner layout for daily notifications.

Explore all the new features and 27 more refinements you'll feel without us pointing them out.

Tried the new features and Windy plugins?

Have feedback or ideas for what should come next?
Let us know in the comments. For technical or Premium subscription issues, visit us at community.windy.com. 

Thanks for being part of the Windy community, and enjoy the update.