My Location
Blue – Africa 2018 / route covered
Red – Asia 2023 / planned route
Green – Asia 2023 / actual route (in progress)
Having traveled Africa ‘the wrong way’, from south to north, against the wind, this subject has become my main concern. Nothing digs your hole more than an insignificant breeze, which on the bike feels like a hurricane. I would choose the mountains of Kenya any day over the wind of the Sahara. Prevailing winds blow from west to east at mid-latitudes around the globe.
See the current wind, as forecast by supercomputers, on the interactive animated map below. Updated every three hours. Credit to earth.nullschool.net