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Welcome to our wind turbine map. It shows every wind turbine we know of with its size: the height of its blade tips, its hub height and the diameter of its rotor, each rotor drawn to scale around its tower. Close to a launch site, a turbine is one of the tallest things a rocket can come down on, and its size matters as much as where it stands.

You are welcome to download and use the data from here, or through the Wind Turbine API for automated fetching, alongside the Inland Water, Main Roads & Railways, Tree Canopy and Terrain Grid APIs.

Download the square File layout and API
Each turbine
Rotor, to scale
Tower
Zoomed out: one turbine
At the map centre
54.40000, -2.95000
Nearest turbine
none within 2 km
Its size
—
Hub height
—
Within 1 km
none
Ground
40 m above sea level
Hover over the map, or tap it on a phone, for the nearest turbine to any spot. The view is kept in the address bar, so a link opens the same place.

The turbine database

Turbines
478,373
From national registers
134,606
From OpenStreetMap
343,767
Updated
29/09/2026
Each source is fetched again every three months, and a turbine that appears in both a national register and OpenStreetMap is kept once, from the register.

What the map shows

Every turbine is drawn with its rotor to scale: a see-through disc the size of the rotor around a white dot for the tower. A turbine turns to face the wind, so its blades can sweep anywhere on that circle, and the circle is the ground its blade tips can be over. Where no rotor size has been recorded, a typical 120 metre rotor is drawn. Zoomed out, where a rotor would be too small to see, each turbine is a single dot.

Where the data comes from

Where a country keeps a national register of its wind turbines with their sizes, we use it: the US Wind Turbine Database, the Canadian Wind Turbine Database, Germany's Marktstammdatenregister, the Danish Energy Agency's register, Sweden's Vindbrukskollen, the Netherlands' RIVM turbine layer and Norway's NVE. Everywhere else the turbines come from OpenStreetMap, where turbines are well mapped across Europe and North America; OpenStreetMap often has a turbine's position but not its size, so sizes are more often missing outside the registers.

Why a rocketry site maps turbines

A modern turbine's blade tips reach 150 to 250 metres, well inside the height a model rocket descends through, and wind farms are often built on exactly the open, high ground clubs like to fly from. Knowing where each turbine stands and how tall it is shows which way the drift must not go, and how far downwind a launch must be kept.

The same data is going into the Altimeter Cloud Landing & Radio tool and the 3D site map, where each turbine will stand at its real height with its rotor turned into the wind.

Use the data in your own projects

Everything on this map is available through the free Wind Turbine API, no key needed: every turbine in a square up to 50 km across, with its position, heights and rotor diameter, as JSON or as a small binary file of 16 bytes a turbine that a flight computer can carry. The download panel on the map does the same thing from here.

Questions

Why is a turbine missing, or its size not recorded?

Outside the national registers, turbines come from OpenStreetMap, so a turbine nobody has mapped there will not show, and one mapped without its height or rotor size shows with the size "not recorded". Adding it to OpenStreetMap brings it in at the next refresh.

How old is the data?

Each source is fetched again every three months, and the database's date is shown above. A turbine built since then will appear at the next refresh.

Turbines: Hoen, B.D., Diffendorfer, J.E., Rand, J.T., Kramer, L.A., Garrity, C.P., and Hunt, H.E., 2018, United States Wind Turbine Database: U.S. Geological Survey, American Clean Power Association, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory data release, doi:10.5066/F7TX3DN0 (public domain); Marktstammdatenregister – © Bundesnetzagentur für Elektrizität, Gas, Telekommunikation, Post und Eisenbahnen, Datenlizenz Deutschland – Namensnennung – Version 2.0, Daten geändert; Indeholder data fra Stamdataregister for vindkraftanlæg datasættet fra Energistyrelsen; Länsstyrelserna, Vindbrukskollen, CC0; contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada (Canadian Wind Turbine Database, Natural Resources Canada); RIVM, Atlas Leefomgeving, Windturbines - ashoogte, public domain; contains data under the Norwegian licence for Open Government data (NLOD) distributed by NVE (Norges vassdrags- og energidirektorat); OpenStreetMap data © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL. Ground height: Terrain Tiles (Mapzen / Tilezen, on AWS Open Data), reduced into resolution tiers by Altimeter Cloud: ArcticDEM terrain data DEM(s) were created from DigitalGlobe, Inc., imagery and funded under National Science Foundation awards 1043681, 1559691, and 1542736; Australia terrain data © Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia) 2017; Austria terrain data © offene Daten Österreichs – Digitales Geländemodell (DGM) Österreich; Canada terrain data contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada; Europe terrain data produced using Copernicus data and information funded by the European Union - EU-DEM layers; Global ETOPO1 terrain data U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; Mexico terrain data source: INEGI, Continental relief, 2016; New Zealand terrain data Copyright 2011 Crown copyright (c) Land Information New Zealand and the New Zealand Government (All rights reserved); Norway terrain data © Kartverket; United Kingdom terrain data © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2015. All rights reserved; United States 3DEP (formerly NED) and global GMTED2010 and SRTM terrain data courtesy of the U.S. Geological Survey. Imagery © Esri, Maxar, Earthstar Geographics. Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors, OpenTopoMap (CC BY-SA). Place search by Photon (komoot). The data on this map is made available under the Open Database License (ODbL) 1.0, as it contains OpenStreetMap data.