Kitepower El Gouna

Lukas Vogeltanz

About this app

Kitepower El Gouna is the wind, forecast and tide app for the kite lagoon in El Gouna, on Egypt's Red Sea coast. It is built by the kitesurfing and wingfoil school that sits on that beach, on top of our own weather station at the water's edge.

Weather apps normally model El Gouna from a grid point somewhere offshore. This one starts with a real anemometer on the spot you are about to ride, and corrects everything else against it.

Live wind from our own station
• Wind speed, gusts and direction, live from the station on the beach, with a rising / falling / steady trend over the last minutes.
• A full station dashboard: air temperature and feels-like, sea temperature with a wetsuit hint, humidity, barometric pressure, UV index, solar radiation and rain.
• A 16-sector wind rose, and a wind history graph you can zoom from one hour out to 30 days.
• More than two million readings recorded on this beach since 2022 — the local history behind every number.

A 16-day forecast tuned to this lagoon
• The Kitepower model blends four global weather models (ICON, GFS, ECMWF and ARPEGE), then corrects them for what actually happens here: the north-westerly direction bias, under-predicted daily peaks, and the tide-driven afternoon lull.
• It verifies itself against the station every night and mixes in the live reading, so a drop happening right now shows up in the next hours instead of tomorrow.
• Read it four ways: a daily strip, a full hourly table, a model-by-model comparison, and an interactive graph with gusts, night shading and a tap-to-inspect crosshair.
• Wind, gusts, peak wind, direction, air and sea temperature, cloud, rain and waves — the numbers a kitesurfer or wing foiler actually plans around.
• Short plain-language notes explain what the forecast is doing, hour by hour.

Tides and the walk-out window
• A tide curve from our own local harmonic model, with high and low events and ranges from 24 hours to 30 days.
• A green walk-out band shows when the water is deep enough to wade out and get going — the first thing every instructor here gets asked.

Webcam and the go / no-go call
• A live webcam of the spot on the home screen, with roughly 70 minutes of rewind, so you can see what the wind has been doing.
• A session card that turns the live wind into a plain call — hydrofoil, light-wind, the kite size that makes sense — plus insight cards for the next six hours, today's best riding window and tomorrow's peak.

On your home screen
• Two home screen widgets: live wind at a glance, and a wider card with live wind, the next tide and a 12-hour forecast sparkline.

Planning a trip to El Gouna
• A best-week planner and a season guide built on our own station history: about 77% of days a year are rideable on this lagoon, peaking near 85% in August, with wind from the north to north-west roughly three quarters of the time.
• A course finder that matches kite and wing courses to your level, and a trip cost estimator.
• Kite and wing courses, rentals, the Kitepass, storage, packages and a full rate list.
• The SALT Beach Club and restaurant menu, massage, the spot guide with riding zones, getting here from Hurghada airport, and contact — all in the app.

About the school
Kitesurfing, kiteboarding, wingfoil and hydrofoil have been taught on this lagoon under the Kitepower name since 2004; the school is run today by co-owners Lukáš and Andrea. The lagoon is flat and shallow near the shore, which makes it a forgiving place to learn — and the app shows the same data we look at ourselves before deciding whether to rig.

Good to know
• No account, no sign-in — open the app and the wind is there.
• No ads anywhere in the app.
• All times are local El Gouna time (Africa/Cairo). Wind in knots, km/h, m/s or mph, your choice.
• Wind, forecast, tide and webcam data come from Kitepower El Gouna's own equipment and model, for this one Red Sea lagoon. Great for planning a kite or wing session here; it is not a general worldwide weather app.

What’s new

First release of the Kitepower El Gouna app on Android.

• Live wind, gusts and direction from our own beach station
• The 16-day Kitepower forecast for the lagoon
• Tides with the green walk-out window
• Live spot webcam with rewind
• Station dashboard with wind rose
• Two home screen widgets
• Courses, prices, rentals and trip planning
• Units: knots, m/s, km/h or mph

Wear OS is next. Ideas: [e-mail]