Flight tracking for nervous flyers

Track your flight. Know how it'll feel.

Live status and delay alerts, plus a calm turbulence forecast for your exact route. When the bumps will come, how strong they'll be, and when they'll end.

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Forecast for B6 23, JFK to LAX: flight status on time from gate B12, and a confirmed forecast: A few bumps, mostly calm.

Find your flight

Type the flight number. That's it.

Enter B6 23 and the day you fly, and BumpCast fills in the airports and times. Or pick your airports and choose from that day's nonstops. Add connecting flights in a row.

  • Live status: delays, gates, terminals, cancellations and diversions
  • One gentle alert when your flight is delayed
  • Free for every flight you add
The Find your flight screen with flight number B6 23 and Monday selected, showing the match: JFK to LAX, departs 7:15 AM EDT.

Bumps along the way

What other trackers don't tell you.

Turbulence is weather, and weather can be forecast. BumpCast maps your route from climb to cruise to descent and shows when each bumpy stretch starts, how long it lasts, and what it will feel like.

  • Smooth Your drink stays still.
  • Light chop Your drink ripples.
  • Moderate Drinks can spill. Stay seated.
  • Strong Rare. Your belt keeps you safe.
Bumps along the way: a chart of the whole flight with light chop 41 minutes in and again 3 hours 48 minutes in, each explained under What to expect.

In the air

A countdown to every bump, on your Lock Screen.

Once you've taken off, the Live Activity and Dynamic Island count down to the next bumpy stretch, with a heads-up two minutes before it starts. Your forecast is saved before you board, so it all works in airplane mode.

Lock Screen Live Activity: JFK to LAX, smooth for 12:11, then light chop for about 18 minutes.

Honest about certainty

Sharper as you get closer.

An advance forecast 48 hours before departure, updates at 24, 6 and 2 hours out, and a confirmed forecast on the day you fly. Each update says what changed and why. Delayed? Your forecast follows the new departure time, with one alert for both.

Forecast updates: smoother over Colorado, forecast confirmed, and the earlier 24-hour and advance forecasts, each with what changed.

Calm, on cue

Built for when the seatbelt sign comes on.

Guided breathing paced to your next bumpy stretch. Short, factual explainers on what causes bumps at cruise, over mountains and near clouds, and why planes are built for it. No red alerts, no scare graphics.

Guided breathing: Breathe in, 2. Light chop in about 12 minutes.
Explainer: Mountain waves. What is happening, what the crew is doing, and what you will feel.

Turbulence map

See the whole sky, at every height.

Turbulence across the country by altitude, now and up to six hours ahead, with your route drawn on top. Pro adds live pilot reports of what planes are actually feeling.

Turbulence map with light chop near Colorado Springs on the JFK to LAX route at flight level 380, and pilot reports.

After you land

We check our work.

Tell us how bumpy it really felt. Every rating is checked against the forecast, and we publish our accuracy in the app.

After landing, DEN to SFO: How did it feel? Smoother, About right, or Bumpier. Forecast: Mostly smooth.

Free and Pro

Start free. Go Pro for the full ride.

Pro is monthly or annual (with a 7-day free trial), or a one-time Flight Pass for a single trip.

Free

  • Flight search by number or route
  • Live status and delay alerts
  • Forecast grade for up to 2 upcoming flights
  • A heads-up when your forecast is ready

Pro

  • Every forecast update, including after delays
  • The minute-by-minute timeline
  • Live Activity and in-flight reminders
  • Pilot reports on the map
  • Unlimited flights

Coming soon

Your trips, found for you.

Optionally connect Gmail and BumpCast adds your upcoming flights automatically.

  • Read on your iPhone. Booking emails never reach our servers and are never stored.
  • Only the flight. Flight number, date and airports. Names, booking references and payment details are ignored.
  • Read-only, and you can disconnect any time.

How email access works

Breathe easier on your next flight.

Covers the continental United States and southern Canada.

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