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Headwind Planner

Wind, gusts and fuel along your towing route, hour by hour.

Set up your trip

  1. Your rig
  2. Your trip
  3. Suggested trips

Not sure of some figures? before you start.

What are you travelling in?

We count about 80 kg an adult and 40 kg a child, plus 100 kg of gear in the car and 250 kg in the caravan. Fine-tune everything later under Towing weights.

Put Headwind on your home screen

Android (Chrome):

  1. If you opened this from a message or email, first tap the menu and choose Open in Chrome.
  2. Tap the ⋮ (three dots) at the top right of Chrome.
  3. Tap Add to home screen, then Install. (On some phones it says Install app.)
  4. The green Headwind icon appears on your home screen.

iPhone or iPad (Safari): tap the Share button, then Add to Home Screen.

Your account

Sign in to keep your rig and trips safe, and to see them on your phone, tablet and computer. There's no password: we email you a sign-in link.

Headwind Pro

Free gives you the wind for any trip: headwinds, gusty crosswinds, the best time to leave and the wind map.

Pro adds everything else:

$6.99 a month or $49.99 a year after the free trial.

What you'll need

Have these handy and setting up takes a few minutes. Tick them off as you find them. Anything you don't know, skip: we fill in typical figures, and you can change them later.
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Try everything free for 14 days. Towing weights, fuel stops, rest breaks, servicing and more. No card needed.

G'day

Your trip
Stops along the way none yet

Planning a lap from home? Make Finish the same town as Start, and we'll suggest the stops.

Plan by trip length

Tell us how long you've got, and we'll spread the time across your stops. Longer stops become bases to explore from, moving camp every few nights.

Rig settings

Use your own towing figure if you know it. Towing a big caravan often uses 30 to 60% more fuel, sometimes more in hills or headwinds, so the number on the windscreen sticker will be too low.

Servicing

Your odometer, service sticker and service intervals are set with your vehicle and caravan in Towing weights.

Pick your vehicle and caravan and say who's coming. We fill in the rest from the manufacturers' figures. Tap All the details to change any figure, add accessories or set up servicing.

Your tow vehicle

What are you travelling in?

Figures are the manufacturer's for the exact variant named. They change with model year, cab style, engine and options, so check your vehicle's compliance plate or owner's manual. Figures marked "estimated" weren't published in our sources.

Vehicle servicing

Heavy towing, dusty roads and corrugations count as "severe use" in most service books, which often means shorter intervals. Check yours.

What you add to the vehicle

Your caravan or trailer

Added to or taken off the caravan nothing yet

Tick anything fitted since it left the factory, or carried in or on it. Change any weight to match yours.

Had it weighed? Untick "Add up the packed weight" and enter the weighbridge figure. No tare figure? Use the ATM as the packed weight to see the worst case. Most vans sit at 8–12% on the tow ball.

Caravan servicing

Fuel use

Estimate only. This uses manufacturer figures and typical accessory weights, so it gives you a good idea but is not a guarantee. Your vehicle's compliance plate and a weighbridge reading are what count legally.

Where your payload goes

Fuel use when towing

Limits

What you can do

    Get weighed

    Open this section with your location on, or plan a trip, to see weighbridges near you.

    The maths