Example drive Home to Office, 42.3 mi

Leave 5:22-5:41.
Arrive 6:31 anyway.

Leave at 5:41 and you drive 19 min less.

Best departure window

5:30-5:41

Arrive

6:31

Next best departure for you

5:30

Drag to choose departure

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MinDriveTime finds the knee: the stretch where leaving earlier only buys you traffic. Leave at the end of it, arrive at the same minute, and know the weather you will meet on every mile. Drag the departure: the road recolours for the minute you reach it.

Start freeHow it works

Change the sky

The knee

The knee is wasted time.

We price every departure minute against live traffic. Where the arrival line runs flat, that is the knee: leave anywhere in it and you arrive at the same minute. Leaving early just buys you more traffic.

1

Best departure window

The end of the knee. 5:41 is the latest that still arrives 6:31. One nudge, right there.

2

The knee

5:22 to 5:41. Leave anytime in the knee and you arrive at 6:31 anyway. Leaving early just buys you more traffic.

The wait

Go have a cup of tea. Stay out of the traffic. The time before your best window is yours, not the road's.

Example scenario

The route, timed

Weather where you will be, when you get there.

Drag the departure time. Every stretch of road recolours for the minute you reach it, not the minute you look.

  • Coloured minute by minuteRain, hail and wind on the left lane line. Traffic speed on the right, in taillight red.
  • Purple means a warningInside an active NWS warning polygon at your ETA. Dotted means it is still dark.
  • Honest past 30 minutesRadar projections fade after 30 minutes and are labelled lower confidence.

Open the full map

Reading the line

Rainlight to moderate at your ETA
Heavyheavy rain or strong gusts
Severehail, or 50 dBZ and up
Warninginside an active NWS polygon
Darkbefore civil dawn
Trafficfree flow, slow, jammed

Storm add-on,

The sky gets a vote.

Every departure, every mile, at the minute you would reach it. Rain, wind, hail and NWS warnings on one strip.

  • Radar you can trust for 30 minutesCells are measured on radar and projected along their tracks. Past 30 minutes we keep drawing them, faded and hatched.
  • NWS beyond thatWarnings and forecasts carry the rest of the drive, and say so.
Example drivePoint at or tap the strip

Distance from home, up. Departure time, across.

Point at or tap the strip to see the hazard at that mile for that departure, and which source it comes from.

Example drive, not live weather. Radar is measured and projected for the first 30 min after now (5:15). Past that the strip uses NWS warnings and advisories, which are lower confidence.

Airport, train and bus pickups, free

Be at the curb when they are.

Type the flight, or pick the train or bus stop. We watch the arrival live, add the walk to the curb, then time your drive against it with live traffic. You get one minute: when to leave.

  • The real plane, not the scheduleLive position and ground speed from the aircraft's own transponder, refreshed every 15 seconds.
  • Wheels down is not the curbA checked bag adds about 20 minutes, customs about 35. The leave time moves with every update, so you never circle the terminal.
  • Knows when you have leftYour phone notices you are driving away and stops the reminders. Location never leaves the phone.

Time a pickup now

How the minute is built

Plane 312 km out at 430 kt lands 5:02. Taxi 8, deplane 10, bag 20, walk 5: at the curb 5:45. Your drive at 5:09 takes 31 minutes with 5 to spare: leave 5:09.

No account needed for the quick pickup page. In the app, the pickup is timed against live traffic on your actual road and the reminder moves with the arrival. Trains and buses: Boston (MBTA) first, more cities next.

Disaster layer, free for everyone

Know what is burning before you drive into it.

Active wildfire perimeters and earthquakes on a live map, next to the NWS evacuation, fire and flood warnings MinDriveTime already checks along your road. The fire and quake map is free for everyone.

  • Wildfires and hurricanesOfficial fire perimeters (NIFC) and National Hurricane Center cones, checked against your saved route in the app. Add a free NASA key and you also get satellite fire detections, often hours before a perimeter is drawn.
  • EarthquakesUSGS events of magnitude 4.5 and up from the past day, so a closed bridge is not a surprise.
  • See the roadA live state traffic camera near the worst mile of your drive, in California and Delaware to start.
  • Official warnings, as issuedWe report what the agencies publish and never invent a risk they did not. If a feed is down we say so instead of showing an all-clear.
Sources

Wildfire perimeters: NIFC WFIGS. Hurricanes: NOAA NHC. Earthquakes: USGS. Warnings: National Weather Service. Cameras: Caltrans, DelDOT. Flights: adsb.lol (ODbL). Transit: MBTA. All public data. The map refetches every 5 minutes and says so when a feed is down.

See the live map

Forecast weather, on your phone

Try a departure before you take it.

Live wind, temperature, rain and gusts drawn over your route, 48 hours ahead. Slide the departure time and see the weather at each mile at the minute you would reach it, side by side with a second departure.

  • Crosswinds, not just windWind is measured against the direction of the road, so a gusty crosswind on a bridge stands out.
  • Flooding at that hourKnown flood points on the route, for the time you would cross them.
  • Why the road is slowGames, concerts and fairs near your route, with crowd size, ticket status and opening hours.
How it works

The NOAA GFS forecast is cropped to your route (about 200 KB for 48 hours) and decoded on your phone, so it is fast and costs nothing to run. It is labelled as forecast with its model run time, never passed off as radar.

Bring your own free keys (TomTom, Google Places, Ticketmaster, NASA FIRMS) for faster live traffic and extra layers. Keys stay on your phone.

Everywhere

One answer, wherever you look.

Home to Office

Best departure window

5:30-5:41

Arrive 6:31 anyway. The knee runs 5:22 to 5:41: have a cup of tea first.

Heavy rain at mile 26 near 6:09

PhoneThe best window, the knee and the weather on one screen.

BEST BY

5:41

tea till 5:30

WatchA tap on the wrist when the best window opens, before the phone is out of your pocket.
Home to Office
Office to Home
Gym

BEST DEPARTURE WINDOW

5:30-5:41

DesktopCompare every route side by side before the commute.

Pricing

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