Thermal atlas
Where thermals were found on past flights, for the month and time of day you choose. Colour shows the mean climb; cells appear when you zoom in.
Showing: November, 12:00–14:00
Not for use in flight. The thermal atlas is a statistic of past flights; it does not say where thermals will be today and does not replace a weather forecast or in-flight navigation. The pilot decides.
Legend
Mean climb
Skyway: a line pilots often follow from thermal to thermal
Region boundary (opens the guide)
Only cells with flights from enough different pilots are shown. Pilot counts are never shown; tap a cell to see its support level (limited, medium, strong).
An empty area does not mean "no thermals"; it means "not enough data".
Wind data: Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD), ICON-EU, CC BY 4.0; processed with Open-Meteo, derived into wind sectors per flight.
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