A quick explanation of how Tempelo works, how clothing advice is generated, how personalized clothing advice works, what Ride Commute does, and how route import via Strava and RideWithGPS works.
A single commute is for one recurring ride: for example only your outbound ride or only your return ride.
A workday is for combining outbound and return in one setup.
Choose a single commute if you want to plan one ride separately. Choose a workday if you want one combined overview and one combined email for that day.
The login link is bound to the device + browser where you requested it. This helps prevent misuse.
Common causes: • Request on phone, open on laptop (or the other way around) • Request in Safari, open in Chrome (or vice versa) • Request in a normal window, open in incognito/private
Fix: • Open Tempelo on the device/browser where you want to be signed in • Request a new login link there • Open your email and click the link on that same device/browser
Flow: • Sign in to Tempelo • Go to Settings → Integrations → RideWithGPS • Connect RideWithGPS and authorize • Then open Ride Route to view and import a route
On import, we fetch the route points and convert them into Tempelo’s internal route format so you can use them in Setup, Forecast, and sharing.
You can disconnect any time via Settings → Integrations.
• Typing: once you type 3+ characters, a dropdown appears automatically. Click a result to select it. • GPS (crosshair icon): use your current location. If you allow it, we fill the location automatically. • Suggestions: when you click into the field, you’ll see suggestions such as Last and Recent so you can quickly reuse locations.
If a location is already filled and you click the field, the text is automatically selected. This makes it quick to overwrite by typing (iOS-style).
We sort dropdown results smartly (this is a bias, not a filter): • strong text match (exact/starts with) • nearby if Near me is enabled (GPS), otherwise a slight preference for your home country (NL) • previously chosen locations (recents) • larger/more important places as a final tie-breaker
Tip: if you get many matches (for example Valencia), add a country or region such as Valencia Spain or Valencia, Venezuela.
When you select a location (via dropdown or GPS), we save it as your last used location and add it to Recent.
This is purely for convenience: next time you visit, you can quickly pick the same places again, and if it is still recent, the last used location can be suggested or autofilled.
This is stored locally in your browser on the device you use. No account is required.
You can clear the current selection using the X icon in the location field.
Open-Meteo acts as an aggregator: depending on the region, Open-Meteo can use different forecast models or sources (best match).
For the Netherlands/Benelux and much of Europe, we use an overlay for the first ~60 hours based on KNMI/HARMONIE (seamless via Open-Meteo). Beyond that, we automatically switch back to Open-Meteo Auto (best match).
Below the table you’ll see a Model label showing which model or source route was used for this forecast. Tap the ? icon for the detailed explanation.
• Feels-like in the table is the feels-like temperature returned by the weather API. • The clothing advice uses an effective temperature: API feels-like + adjustments for wind, rain, and ride intensity.
With Easy / Neutral / Intense, you shift the clothing advice based on how demanding the ride feels. This only affects the clothing advice, not the forecast itself.
Because we mainly look at how cold it feels (feels-like + adjustments). Wind and rain can make one hour feel colder, even if the actual temperature is slightly higher.
Ride Now and Ride Later: when you share, we only put parameters in the URL, for example lat/lon/name, and for Ride Later also startLocal. The recipient sees the same page with the same chosen values.
Ride Route (GPX/Strava/RideWithGPS) is different: a full route is too large for URL-only parameters. So we temporarily store the route, including simplified points and optionally the original GPX, so the recipient can open it via a shareId.
Note: separately from sharing, Tempelo may remember your last used location locally in your browser for convenience. This is not part of the share link and is not stored on the server.
For a shared Ride Route, a Download GPX option may be available. This depends on how the link was created:
• Available: if the original sender shared the route from an uploaded GPX, because the original GPX was stored along with it. • Not available: if the original sender shared a route from Strava or RideWithGPS, or if the original GPX was not stored.
Shared routes have a limited retention period. After that, the link can expire and downloading or opening may no longer be possible.