Convek vs XC Skies
A clean comparison for pilots and developers evaluating soaring weather options.
XC Skies is a pilot-facing soaring forecast product built around maps, soundings, and subscription access. Convek is a developer-facing API. The important difference is not which forecast you look at, but whether your software can query the data directly.
What Convek is
Convek is a REST JSON API for apps, instruments, club displays, and custom tooling. It exposes thermal strength, cloudbase, usable soaring height, convergence, wind levels, soundings, grids, and corridor samples as structured data.
What XC Skies is
XC Skies is a browser-based forecast product for pilots. It is useful when a pilot wants to inspect soaring forecasts visually before flying.
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Which should you pick?
Pick Convek if
You are building a product, club display, route planner, vario companion, or app that needs forecast data directly.
Pick XC Skies if
You are a pilot who wants a forecast map and does not need to build on the data.
In short
Use XC Skies if you want a ready-made forecast website. Use Convek if you are building software and need the forecast as JSON.