PhotoWeather

Stop checking weather apps every hour. PhotoWeather is the intelligent forecast monitor built exclusively for outdoor photographers. It's your 24/7 digital scout, watching the skies so you don't have to. The core mission is simple: to alert you only when the weather conditions perfectly match your creative goals, ensuring you never miss a fleeting moment like sunrise fog, a dramatic storm front, or that perfect cloud break during golden hour. Built for landscape, astro, and wildlife photographers, it transforms chaotic weather data into actionable photo opportunities. Forget sifting through irrelevant forecasts for temperature and precipitation chances. With PhotoWeather, you define the exact parameters that matter for your shot—from cloud layers and wind speed to astronomical events—and get smart, timely notifications. It puts you in control, turning complex meteorological data into a simple go/no-go decision, so you can be ready and in position when the magic happens. The best light won't wait, and PhotoWeather makes sure you're there to capture it.

Powerful Rule Builder

Craft hyper-specific condition alerts with an intuitive yet powerful rule builder featuring over 80 parameters. Go beyond basic weather to include clouds (type, coverage, height), visibility, wind, humidity, pressure, dew point, and advanced indices like CAPE for storm prediction. Combine this with comprehensive astronomy data for sun, moon, aurora, and Milky Way visibility. Use AND/OR/NOT logic to create complex rules like "Golden hour + 20–60% cloud cover + wind under 7 m/s" to pinpoint your ideal shooting window with precision.

Ready-Made Photographer Templates

Jumpstart your setup instantly with professionally crafted templates designed for specific photographic phenomena. Choose from a library of pre-configured rules for scenarios like "Fog and Mist," "Epic Golden Cloud Drama," "Aurora Visibility," "Storm Intensity," "Coastal Drama," and "Still Water Reflections." These templates are built on photographer-tested condition thresholds, allowing you to get your first alert in under a minute without needing to be a meteorology expert.

Smart Notifications & Calendar Sync

Receive alerts your way with a multi-channel notification system. Get daily morning digests to plan your day, real-time alerts for time-sensitive opportunities, and reminders before a forecasted window begins. The game-changing Calendar Sync feature automatically creates and updates events in your personal calendar (like Google or Outlook), placing your photo opportunities directly alongside your other commitments for seamless planning.

Horizon-Aware Forecast Data

PhotoWeather provides more than just overhead weather; it delivers horizon-aware data critical for photographers. This means forecasts consider your specific location's topography to give accurate information for sunrise, sunset, and celestial events. Coupled with trend tracking for evolving conditions and multi-model confidence scores from top-tier sources like ECMWF and NOAA, you get trustworthy, location-intelligent data to make confident shooting decisions.

Landscape Photography Perfection

For landscape shooters chasing specific light and atmosphere. Set rules for fog formation in a valley, the perfect level of cloud drama over a mountain range, or calm wind for mirror-like water reflections. PhotoWeather monitors these nuanced conditions around the clock, alerting you when your planned composition at your favorite location will come to life, so you can be on-site and ready.

Astro & Night Sky Shooting

Eliminate the guesswork from astrophotography. Create rules for true astronomical darkness, moon phase and position below the horizon, low cloud cover, and optimal atmospheric transparency. PhotoWeather will alert you to the precise nights and times when the Milky Way core is visible or auroral activity is predicted, maximizing your chances for a successful shoot under the stars.

Storm & Extreme Weather Chasing

Safely capture the power of nature with confidence. Use advanced parameters like CAPE (Convective Available Potential Energy), lightning activity, and storm intensity to set alerts for developing severe weather. Get notified of approaching storm fronts with dramatic cloud structures, allowing you to position yourself safely and in advance to photograph lightning, shelf clouds, or turbulent skies.

Wildlife Photography Planning

Plan your wildlife outings around optimal animal activity and shooting conditions. Set rules for gentle wind speeds to avoid spooking subjects, specific temperature ranges, or humidity levels that might influence behavior. Combine this with golden or blue hour alerts to ensure you have the best light for capturing dynamic wildlife portraits in their natural habitat.

How accurate are the forecasts?

PhotoWeather aggregates and analyzes data from the world's most trusted forecast models, including ECMWF, DWD, NOAA, MET Norway, and Météo-France. We provide multi-model confidence scores for your rules, so you can see how much the top services agree on an upcoming opportunity. This gives you a reliable, professional-grade assessment far superior to checking a single consumer app.

Can I create my own custom rules?

Absolutely! While we offer convenient pre-made templates, the full power of PhotoWeather lies in our custom rule builder. You have access to over 80 weather and astronomy parameters which you can combine with advanced logic (AND/OR/NOT) to create rules that match your exact creative vision, no matter how specific or complex.

How do the notifications and calendar sync work?

You can choose from daily digest emails, real-time push notifications (on mobile), and SMS alerts. Our unique calendar sync feature automatically creates events in your connected calendar (e.g., Google Calendar) for upcoming photo opportunities. These events update automatically if the forecast changes, keeping your schedule always current.

What's included in the free tier?

The Free plan is perfect for starting out, offering 1 location, 3 custom rules, forecasts updated every 6 hours, and a 3-day outlook. It includes all essential weather and astronomy data, email digests, and calendar integration. This allows any photographer to fully experience the core alerting functionality at no cost.

PhotoWeather offers simple, transparent pricing to scale with your needs. All plans include core features like the rule builder, templates, and notifications.

Free Plan: Ideal for single-location shooters. Includes 1 location, 3 rules, 6-hour forecast updates, 3-day forecasts, essential weather & astronomy data, email digests, and calendar integration. Start at no cost.

Pro Plan: Designed for power users and professionals. Priced at $6.49/month (billed annually at $77.88, a 19% launch discount locked forever). Includes 15 locations, 100 rules, hourly forecast updates, 14-day forecasts, access to 40+ advanced conditions, horizon-aware data, trend tracking, multi-model confidence scores, and custom reminders. This plan unlocks the full potential for serious photographic planning.