Where to find the Wind?

The mother of all questions! The wind is our driving force, our passion and the drawback of windsurfing at the same time, as it seems. However, that's what it makes it so unique: to plane over the water powered only by the force of the wind, without any motor or other sources of energy, is what makes up the fascination of windsurfing.

It's all the more important to know where the wind is blowing at the moment, when there's wind at your surf spot and how the wind arises there. The following websites offer funded answers and professional services to these questions.

Windfinder.com

You are at work, the trees outside are bending and you want to know if there is already enough wind to surf at the lake around the corner? Then this is the right website for you! Amongst wind, wave and weather forecasts, first and foremost the website provides real time measurements for about 2000 surf spots worldwide. For those who long for even more specific information, there's a tide calendar, weather maps, satellite pictures, a webcam- and an address register for windsurfers as well as a news blog.

Windguru.com

You want to get wet at the following weekend, no matter where? Then you find detailed wind and weather forecasts for about 3000 surf spots all over the world here. Easy, clear and especially for windsurfers. "Windguru" – the name says it all! You can rely on the forecasts, because they aren't based on hocus-pocus as you could expect from a guru, but on the most modern computer models.