How AYON knows what it knows.

Live wind and forecast

Live wind and gust readings are pulled per spot from Open-Meteo's global forecast (WMO-standard 10 m wind, converted to knots). We also cross-check against other public models where they meaningfully differ, and show the live-signal reading rather than the model average.

The daily 'ride window' shown on spot pages is not a single-model guess. It's a synthesis of forecast, thermal pattern, and historical rider behavior for that spot.

AYON does not run its own weather stations. When we say 'live wind at Cumbuco,' we mean the model closest to the spot's coordinates, at the moment you loaded the page.

Spot pages

Every spot page names a real, named kitesurf location we (or a founding rider based there) have visited or ridden. Coordinates are our own — not scraped from another guide site — and align with the same coordinates the AYON Wind app uses.

Season, wind pattern, hazards, and 'getting there' details come from lived experience of the coast and are reviewed before publishing.

Where we don't have first-hand data on a spot yet, we don't publish a page for it.

Downwind route pages

Every route page corresponds to a route in AYON Wind's own curated route data (mobile app's AYON_DOWNWIND_ROUTES). Distance, bearing, difficulty rating, wind-window guidance, safety notes, and rescue notes are the same values the app itself uses — not separately-authored marketing text.

Route difficulty ratings are calibrated to real-world experience of similar riders on that route, not a purely algorithmic score. A 'beginner+' route assumes prior kite control, not first-day-of-lessons ability.

Route pages are not GPX tracks and are not intended as turn-by-turn navigation.

Local knowledge (community contributions)

AYON Wind lets riders submit Local Knowledge entries per spot — hazards, current conditions, and honest notes. Where a submission is later cited on a spot page, we do so with attribution and only after review.

We do not currently expose individual rider identity in aggregate site content. Anything shown on a public page has passed through editorial review by the AYON team.

What we do not do

• Invent facts to fill in a spot or route we don't know.
• Publish AI-generated pages without human review.
• Guarantee wind, safety, tides, or ride outcomes.
• Sell rider position data or share it beyond the per-ride sharing the rider explicitly consented to.

Corrections

If something on this site is wrong — a spot fact, a route detail, a safety note — please email contact@withayon.com. We correct verifiable errors and mark the page's 'last updated' date.