Let's Kite goes Southern Hemisphere

456 new weather stations in Australia and New Zealand. Live wind data, official sources, for riders who surf on the other side of the world.

Since its early days, Let's Kite has been built around European spots. Today marks a turning point: for the first time, the platform expands beyond the northern hemisphere. Australian and New Zealand riders can now check real-time conditions — directly on the map, in alerts, and in their dashboard — just like their European counterparts.

This is no token integration. With 418 Australian stations and 38 New Zealand stations, this update represents the largest geographical expansion in the project's history.

What this changes in practice

• BOM and MetService stations appear directly on the Let's Kite map, just like any European station.
• Data refreshes every 10 minutes (BOM) and every 30 minutes (MetService) — enough to plan a session with confidence.
• Wind alerts work on these stations: set your threshold, get notified when the wind shows up.
• Official sources only — Bureau of Meteorology and MetService. Data reliability is guaranteed by national meteorological services.

For the curious — The integration relies on the public APIs of BOM and MetService, normalised through the same processing pipeline as the 10,000+ stations already on the platform. Each station returns the same fields: average wind, gusts, direction, temperature, humidity, atmospheric pressure.