Site climate analysis for architecture, for any address

What a search gives you

Every search analyses the site across two groups of results. In projects on paid plans, most charts also come with a short written reading of what they mean for the project.

• Climate data: location summary and elevation, Köppen-Geiger and ASHRAE 169 climate zone, hourly temperature and humidity against an adaptive comfort band, precipitation and rain event intensity, annual and daily wind roses, sun path diagrams, cloud cover and UTCI outdoor comfort.
• Energy data: psychrometric chart, country grid carbon intensity, solar radiation, PV potential, geothermal potential and a preliminary energy balance.

Station data and site-specific data, side by side

Most climate tools start from the nearest weather station file, which can be far from the site and at a different elevation. C4B always shows the nearest station, and in a project it also compiles a weather file from gridded reanalysis data at the project's exact coordinates, corrected to the site's elevation.

In projects, you can switch between the two sources and see how much the site differs from the station.

From data to design direction

Projects on a paid plan add a design direction layer: passive design strategies for indoor environments, outdoor comfort strategies, directional outdoor comfort, building orientation and aspect-ratio optimization, and the optimal orientation for PV panels. They also add future climate scenarios and a PDF report you can share with the client.