RunWeather vs Strava weather for runners

Strava is where most runners keep their training: the feed, clubs, segments, routes, Relative Effort and the training log. Its subscription adds weather: in Strava's words, the activity page "will display the weather during your activity", and you can hide it in display settings. Grade Adjusted Pace corrects your pace for hills.

Strava's help center and feature list do not describe a forecast before the run, a conditions score, or any pace correction for heat, humidity or wind (checked 28 October 2026). So a slow July tempo sits in your log looking like a bad day. RunWeather reads the same runs, from Strava, Apple Health or Health Connect, puts the dew point, heat strain and wind next to each one, and, with Pro, shows the weather-adjusted pace: what that effort was worth on a cool, still day.

Want the detail behind the scoring? How the Run Score works publishes every threshold the model uses.

When Strava's weather is enough

If you only want a record of what it was like out there, the weather on a Strava subscriber's activity does that, and everything else Strava does (social, segments, routes, training analysis) is well beyond what RunWeather tries. If you run at the same time every day whatever the weather, there is little for a forecast score to change.

When RunWeather earns its place

Two moments: before the run, while you can still pick the hour, and after a run that felt harder than the pace says. RunWeather covers both. It scores the coming days hour by hour so you can move a hard session to the better window, and it sets your Strava runs next to their dew point, heat strain and wind, with the pace that effort was worth on a neutral day (every run and the adjusted pace with Pro).