Set the conditions worth leaving for. PhotoWeather watches the forecast and alerts you when they line up.
Free forever plan. 7-day Pro trial. No credit card required.
For landscape, astro, aurora, wildlife, coast, and travel photographers.
Each opportunity shows the window, confidence, and evidence behind the alert — so you know what to shoot, where to go, and whether it’s worth the alarm.
Bright sunlight beautifully softened by partial cloud creating ideal diffused illumination
Sun creating optimal warm directional light conditions
Dense moisture layer settling near surface very likely to create fog
The gap
Your shot depends on which clouds, where they sit, when the sun clears the horizon, whether the wind drops, and how long the moment lasts. Generic forecasts make you translate all of that by hand.
PhotoWeather does the translation for you — from raw weather to photo opportunities.
Add beaches, ridges, forests, lakes, dark-sky spots, or client locations. Each place can have its own rules, time windows, and alerts.
Start with templates like Fog Hunter, Painted Sky, or Mirror Lake — or build your own rule from 90+ weather and astronomy fields.
Receive morning digests for planning or instant alerts for urgent chances, with the expected start, duration, confidence, and evidence.
PhotoWeather does not just report conditions. It turns weather, light, timing, and uncertainty into decisions you can actually act on.
Define what is worth leaving for: valley fog at dawn, scattered clouds at sunset, calm reflections, moonless astro nights, aurora chances, or your own custom mix.
See when conditions start, when they peak, and how long they are expected to hold — so you can plan the drive instead of refreshing tables.
Every opportunity includes the values that mattered and a confidence score, so you know whether to pack the bag or sleep through the alarm.
PhotoWeather pulls from multiple forecast sources and uses the right data for your location instead of betting everything on one generic forecast.
PhotoWeather checks the sky around your location in every direction, across multiple distances, so it can spot incoming light, cloud breaks, and drama that a single overhead forecast misses.
Use sunrise, sunset, golden hour, blue hour, moon phase, astronomical night, and Milky Way visibility directly in the same rules as the weather.
Your locations, rules, opportunities, and alerts stay synced wherever you check the forecast, pack the bag, or chase the light.
Every new account includes a 7-day Pro trial — no credit card required, and a free plan remains after the trial.
For trying PhotoWeather on your main location.
For photographers tracking more places, longer horizons, and higher-confidence decisions.
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Create an account, add your first location, then choose a template like golden hour atmosphere, dense fog, or mirror-calm water. You can edit every rule once you know what you want PhotoWeather to watch for.
PhotoWeather uses high-quality forecast sources including ECMWF, DWD, NOAA, MET Norway, Météo-France, and more. Weather is still weather, so confidence is highest in the next 1–3 days and tapers farther out.
Yes. Build rules with AND/OR logic across weather, light, astronomy, wind, cloud, visibility, aurora, and other photography-relevant fields. Start simple, then refine your thresholds over time.
Use daily digests for planning and instant alerts for time-sensitive opportunities. Alerts explain what matched, when the window starts, how long it may last, and how confident the forecast looks.
Yes. Subscribe to iCal feeds per location and see photo windows update automatically in Google Calendar, Apple Calendar, Outlook, or any calendar app that supports iCal.
Free accounts include 1 location, 3 rules, forecast refreshes about every 6 hours, a 3-day forecast horizon, email notifications, calendar integration, and essential weather, astronomy, and aurora data.
New web accounts get 7 days of Pro with full access to paid features. When the trial ends, you keep the free plan unless you choose to upgrade. No credit card needed.
Tell PhotoWeather what to watch for. Get the alert when the window opens.
