The Interactive Turbulence Map

Are you hoping for a smooth flight? This map predicts turbulence on your flight, warning of potential bumpy patches on your journey. Enter your flight details into the map and it will provide real-time turbulence forecasts with color-coded severity levels, updated every 6 hours. 

The Interactive Turbulence Map shows you how much turbulence you can expect on your flight. Enter the name of your departure airport and your destination and the map shows the turbulent areas that your flight might cross and provides a graph showing the degree of turbulence expected across the whole flight.

The map uses a colored heat map to show the degree of turbulence based on predictions of atmospheric turbulence from NOAA (with red showing more severe turbulence). After you have entered your flight into the map you can also add waypoints to the map. This is handy if you know the route of your flight and need to adjust the flight path from the map's automatically calculated geodesic flight path.

The Interactive Turbulence map is updated every six hours and can forecast turbulence conditions for the current time, and for three, six, nine or 12 hours into the future.

NOAA's Aviation Weather Center (AWC) can also help you to discover if you might have a comfy flight or not. The service provides warnings, forecasts, and analyses of hazardous weather for aviation for the next two to four days.

The AWC Turbulence interactive map shows where light, moderate and extreme levels of turbulence can be expected over the next 19 hours. The timeline at the bottom of the map can be used to select the forecast turbulence conditions for your flight (if you are departing in the next 19 hours). The map also includes a low and a high altitude mode which allows you to check for turbulence to 48,000 feet and below 5,000 feet.

The AWC TAFs map provides concise weather forecasts specific to the vicinity of individual airports. TAF stands for Terminal Aerodrome Forecasts. On this map weather symbols on each airport show wind gust forecasts. The map also shows areas where high turbulence, storms or tropical cyclones are forecast.