Ride Now (up to ~6 hours): weather + clothing advice starting now.

Ride Later (up to ~6 hours): pick a date/time and get weather + advice from that moment.

Ride Route: weather is shown along your route — not just the weather at home, but the weather where you are at that time.

Ride Commute: weather and clothing advice for your planned commutes. You can set up a single outbound ride, return ride, or a complete workday.

In Ride Route, you can use a route via GPX upload or by importing a route from Strava or RideWithGPS.

Best start time helps you choose when to leave if your start time is flexible. Tempelo compares start times within your search window based on dryness, wind and feels-like temperature.

You can choose what Tempelo should focus on: best balance, driest ride, least wind or warmest feel. You can then apply the recommended time or an alternative in Ride Later.

An account is optional, but you do need it for features such as personalized clothing advice, Ride Commute, and connecting Strava or RideWithGPS.

Sign-in uses a 6-digit code sent to your email. No password needed.

If you are signed in, you can permanently delete your account and all associated stored data yourself from the Account page.

This is a deliberate action with an extra confirmation step, so it cannot easily happen by accident.

Warning: this cannot be undone.

Tempelo uses three layers to make clothing advice more personal. First, there is the standard advice based on weather, feels-like temperature, wind, rain, ride intensity, and ride context.

Then Tempelo can learn from your feedback per body area, such as head/neck, upper body, hands, legs, and feet. Over time, this can make your advice slightly warmer or lighter where needed.

You can also use My wardrobe to link your own clothing items to Tempelo zones. If there is a match for a body area and zone, Tempelo shows your own kit. Where you have not added anything yet, Tempelo fills in with standard advice.

Want the full explanation? Go to Personalized clothing advice.

My wardrobe is where you can add your own cycling kit. You link each item to a body area and to one or more Tempelo zones.

Tempelo uses that information to make advice more recognizable. Instead of only showing standard items, it can show your own gloves, jersey, or jacket when they match the conditions.

Tempelo zones are the fixed advice zones Tempelo uses for clothing advice, such as freezing, very cold, cold, cool, mild, warm, and hot.

These zones are not based on air temperature alone. Tempelo looks at how the ride feels, including feels-like temperature, wind, rain, and ride intensity.

That is fine. You do not need to fill your entire wardrobe before using it.

If Tempelo does not find one of your own items for a body area and zone, it simply uses the standard advice. That means you can start small and add more items later.

No, feedback currently works per body area, not per specific clothing item.

If you say your hands were too cold, Tempelo can tune the advice for hands warmer. It does not learn that one specific pair of gloves was right or wrong.

Not yet. Tempelo currently uses fixed Tempelo zones.

You can link your own clothing items to those zones. Custom temperature ranges or personal zone bands fit a later expansion.

Ride Commute helps you with weather and clothing advice for your planned commutes.

You always start through one wizard. There you choose whether you want to set up an outbound ride, return ride, or a complete workday.

A workday is one setup that combines your outbound and return ride, including one combined email.

Want the full explanation? Go to Ride Commute.

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.

For every commute, you choose when you want to receive the email.

So instead of a fixed default rule, you choose a specific time that suits you.

For a workday, this is one combined email before your outbound ride. In that email, you first see the advice for outbound and then for return.

Yes. For a single commute, you can select multiple weekdays at once, for example Mon/Tue/Thu.

For a workday, you can also select multiple weekdays at once.

This lets you use one setup for recurring rides on multiple days without having to enter everything again.

The sign-in code is bound to the device + browser where you requested it. If it doesn’t work, request a new one on the device where you want to sign in.

Tempelo uses Strava only for routes (no activities, no segments).

Flow:
• Sign in to Tempelo
• Go to Settings → Integrations → Strava
• Connect Strava and authorize
• Then open Ride Route to view and import a route

On import, we fetch the route (polyline) and convert it into route points so you can use it in Tempelo.

You can disconnect any time via Settings → Integrations. We delete the connection and attempt to revoke the token at Strava (best effort).

Tempelo uses RideWithGPS only for routes.

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.

You can pick a location in three ways:

• 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

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.

We fetch the forecast via Open-Meteo.

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).

• 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.

Yes. With more wind and/or rain, the effective temperature drops, so the advice shifts sooner towards dressing warmer.

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.

Overall advice is based on the coldest moment within the selected period or ride, so you are prepared for the most critical hour.

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.

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.

In Ride Now, Ride Later, and Ride Route, you can tap or click a row in the table to see the clothing advice for that specific moment.

Once your route is loaded, you’ll see a green dot at the start and a chequered finish flag at the end. On a loop or return ride, start and finish are in the same place: you’ll then see a single dot that is half green and half chequered.

Small arrows along the route show which direction you’re riding.

Once you’ve fetched the forecast, hourly markers appear. Tap or click a marker to open the weather and clothing advice for that moment. The arrow in the marker points where the wind is blowing to. The colour shows how strong the wind is: white up to 2 Bft, yellow at 3–4, orange at 5–6 and red from 7 Bft.

Rest stops and ferries have their own marker: brown for a rest stop and blue with a little boat for a ferry. Tap one to see its duration.

When setting up your route you choose Duration or Average speed. If you choose duration, Tempelo spreads your ride evenly over the route.

If you choose average speed and your route has elevation data, you can use two corrections. Climb correction takes elevation changes into account: you’re slower uphill and faster downhill. Wind correction takes the wind along your route into account: headwind slows you down, tailwind speeds you up. You can turn them on or off separately.

Wind can only be factored in once Tempelo has fetched the weather forecast for your route. So the number on the settings page doesn’t include it yet, but the forecast does.

Rest stops and ferries that you count toward your time push the rest of your route back in time.

A rest stop adds a stop to your route, for example for coffee or lunch. At the chosen spot your position stays the same while the clock keeps running. The rest of your route shifts in time as a result; the distance doesn’t change.

You drag to the point where you want to pause and choose 10, 15, 30, 45 or 60 minutes. You can add up to 10 rest stops, at least 1 km apart.

You’ll see your stops on the map and in the forecast, and they count toward your estimated arrival time. They are kept when you go back to the settings or share the route.

Yes. Once your route is loaded, Tempelo searches OpenStreetMap, the open world map, for ferry connections. If your route makes the crossing, you’ll see a notice with the position on your route (km) and a little boat on the map.

Tempelo only counts a ferry if your route runs from one landing to the other. If you only ride past one landing, it doesn’t count. There is a little tolerance, because route planners don’t always draw the crossing exactly at the landing.

You decide the rest. For each ferry, choose how long the crossing takes (10, 15, 20 or 30 minutes) and whether that time counts toward your total travel time. By default nothing is filled in and nothing counts.

Sometimes Tempelo suggests a ferry that you don’t actually take, for example when your route runs right along the water. Just collapse the suggestion.

On a loop or return ride in Ride Route, Tempelo checks whether you’d be better off riding it the other way round. If the reverse direction gives less headwind on average in the second half of the ride, you’ll see advice to ride it in the opposite direction. For an A-to-B ride this advice doesn’t appear.

In Ride Now and Ride Later, when there is noticeable wind (from 3 Bft), you get a tip on which direction is best to ride first, so you have the wind against you at the start and with you at the end.

On Ride Now, Ride Later and Ride Route you’ll see a chart above the weather table with temperature, feels-like temperature and chance of rain. Hover over the chart or tap it to see the values for that hour. On Ride Now and Ride Later the chart always shows the next six hours.

A warning may appear above the table. For rain, from a chance of about 40% you’ll see a notice that a shower may come, and with a high chance of wet conditions (from 70% or a lot of rain) a stronger notice. It also says when it starts and when it’s at its strongest.

For strong wind (from 6 Bft) a wind warning appears. Below the chart there’s a wind icon for each hour, so you can see when it’s blowing hard.

Yes. Under Settings you choose your units for temperature (°C or °F), distance (km or miles), speed (km/h or mph), wind (km/h, mph or Beaufort), precipitation (mm or inch) and elevation. If you’re signed in, Tempelo saves your preferences to your account.

Partly. Without a connection you’ll see a notice that you’re offline. The most recently fetched forecast stays visible, but may be out of date. Fetching a new forecast, loading or importing routes and saving work again as soon as you have a connection.

If you open the app without a connection, Tempelo shows an offline page.

If something goes wrong, for example when fetching a forecast or connecting Strava or RideWithGPS, Tempelo sometimes shows a support code. This is a reference to a technical error report.

If you contact us via the support page, include the support code. It helps us see faster what went wrong.