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About
What is Let’s Kite?
Let’s Kite brings live wind, forecasts and a spot guide together for kitesurf, wing, windsurf, snowkite and parawing riders. Born in French-speaking Switzerland, inside the kiting community, the site now covers the whole world.
- 12,000+spots in the guide
- 15,000+weather stations tracked
- 5sports: kitesurf, wing, windsurf, snowkite, parawing
- 2012the community is born
What we do
Four tools to know where and when to ride, and who can help you along the way.
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Live wind
We query weather stations and connected anemometers to show what is really blowing at your spot. In the mountains a general forecast does not tell you whether there is wind: with the community, we equip more spots with their own anemometer.
The weather station project -
The spot guide
More than 12,000 spots, each with its season, prevailing wind, nearby stations and forecasts.
See the spots -
Forecasts and alerts
Forecasts for every spot and, with Premium, a 15-day agenda matched against your wind window: you know when and where it works.
Discover Premium -
The directory and the agenda
Shops, resellers, craftspeople, schools and clubs, and the events they organise: the kite world is denser than it looks, and we make it visible.
Browse the directory
Our roots
Where Let’s Kite comes from
The kiting community in Switzerland counts more than 15,000 riders, around 5,000 of them in French-speaking Switzerland. It has been active for years, notably through a Facebook group created in September 2012 under the name kitesurf & snowkite en Suisse romande, which became “Let’s Kite” in 2019.
Kiting is still a quiet discipline, often discovered on holiday in milder latitudes. Yet Switzerland offers conditions in summer as well as in winter. By making spots more visible and giving reliable wind information, Let’s Kite helps riders go out more often and helps the sport become better known.
We work closely with the Kitesurfeurs Association: we share the same goal, promoting a responsible practice, and therefore the widest possible one.
Since 2012
A short history
The Facebook group “kitesurf & snowkite en Suisse romande” is created.
The idea: bring a few weather stations together for kitesurfers.
The website opens on Swiss National Day, with 40 kitesurf spots and 36 snowkite spots.
The group becomes “Let’s Kite”.
First crowdfunding campaign, for the Allaman beacon: the first stations installed by Let’s Kite follow the same year.
Launch of Let’s Deal, the kite classifieds.
New presentation of the forecasts, from D+1 to D+3.
The guide opens to the world: 12,000 spots.
Premium launches.
The site is translated into English.
The site goes professional: a large part of the features moves to Premium, which lets the team dedicate itself to the project more professionally.
The marketplace is built into Let’s Kite and replaces Let’s Deal, which is retired.
Launch of the Wind Tracker app, to strengthen the ecosystem around Let’s Kite.
Launch of the new Let’s Kite design, geared towards an international audience: multilingual and multi-country.
Who is behind Let’s Kite
Let’s Kite is published by Fred Contat, in Montagny (Vaud, Switzerland), with his team and the support of the riding community. Full legal details are in the terms of use.
What’s next: more stations and spots, better forecasts, and a guide open to new languages and new countries. A mistake on a spot, a missing station, an idea? The riders who tell us make the guide better.