FORECAST GERMANY

The German models, rendered the way they deserve — the nest and the run behind it.

DWD ICON 13 km

EXITS ICON EXPLORER ICON-EU EXPLORER POLAR ABOUT

Live ICON Explorer — the DWD global model at 0.125° worldwide, hourly to 78 hours and three-hourly to seven and a half days, twenty-two fields, 252 places. ICON-EU Explorer — the 6.5 km European nest, eight runs a day, hourly to 48 hours.

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ICON Explorer

Deutscher Wetterdienst's global model, drawn worldwide at 0.125° — about 13 km — rather than the 0.25° open-data grid most sites use for a global run. Hourly to 78 hours, then three-hourly to seven and a half days, in authentic ecCharts colours.

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ICON-EU Explorer

The European nest at 0.0625° — about 6.5 km — from the mid-Atlantic to the Urals, eight runs a day. The same model as the global run at four times the cells, in the same colours on the same band breaks, so a swipe between them shows where the resolution actually changes the forecast.

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Polar Explorer

The Arctic and Antarctic in polar stereographic projection — the two places a Mercator map physically cannot draw, because the projection is infinite at 85°. True at 70°, guaranteed to 45° on every meridian. A stretched polar vortex is a German forecast three weeks out, and this is the only frame that shows it whole.

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Germany, right now

Straight to the country this site is named for, at 2-metre temperature. Every place in the picker is a viewport on one raster rather than its own render, so switching from Bavaria to the Baltic — or to Chile — costs nothing and happens instantly.

Exits by continent

ONE RASTER · EVERY VIEW IS A VIEWPORT

Each of these opens the Explorer on that part of the world, on the globe rather than flat — across the North America frame Mercator distorts area nearly fourteenfold end to end, which is the difference between Greenland reading as a continent and reading as an island. Nothing is re-rendered to get there: one global raster serves every one of them.

North America Alaska to Panama, and the Atlantic and Pacific either side of it. 120° × 68° · 22 countries South America The Andes, the Amazon and the Southern Ocean approaches. 53° × 71° · 22 countries Europe The Atlantic storm track, the Alps and the Mediterranean. 70° × 38° · 46 countries Africa The Sahara, the Sahel, the monsoon and both coasts. 73° × 74° · 51 countries Middle East The Gulf, the Levant, Anatolia and the Iranian plateau. 40° × 31° · 21 countries South Asia The monsoon, the Himalaya and the Bay of Bengal. 35° × 35° · 7 countries East Asia China, the Koreas, Japan and the East China Sea. 55° × 37° · 4 countries Southeast Asia The Maritime Continent, Indochina and the Philippines. 50° × 35° · 15 countries Australia & NZ Australia, New Zealand and the Tasman Sea. 70° × 40° · 8 countries Northern Eurasia Siberia to the Urals, and the Arctic coast above them. 160° × 37° · 7 countries Arctic The whole cap, on a Mercator frame. For the true polar view, take the Polar exit. 360° × 26° · 2 countries Antarctic The continent and the Southern Ocean that circles it. 360° × 23° · 1 country

Why this site exists

The full-resolution model

Most freely available ICON imagery comes from the 0.25° regridded feed, or from a nest shown only over its own country. This site draws DWD's 0.125° global dissemination — four times as many grid points — and the full ICON-EU domain at 0.0625°, so an Alpine valley, a North Sea convergence line or a Föhn wind down the Inn is the size the model actually made it.

Honest rendering

Colour scales are pinned to absolute values, never re-fit per frame, and the ecCharts tables are the real ECMWF Magics colours on their published level breaks — used here so a DWD chart and an ECMWF chart are read on one scale — discrete bands, not a smoothed rainbow. Point at the map and it names the band, because that is the only claim the chart makes.

Built for speed

No tracking, no cookie banner, no account. Pages are static files, the basemap is self-hosted, and nothing is fetched from a third party.

Part of a network

Forecast Euro draws ECMWF worldwide, Forecast Eagle covers North America from NOAA sources, and Forecast Canada covers Canada from MSC. Forecast Germany is the same instrument pointed at the German service — and at a pair of models rather than one, because the interesting thing about ICON is the nest and the run driving it read together. Because the parent is global, so is half of this site.