Live world wood map · ERA5 reanalysis
What the climate does to wood, by location.
Every station reads live from the ERA5 reanalysis archive when you select it. The degradation loads are derived from those measurements by published formulas; the service lives are modelled estimates under method WI-SL.
Pick the station closest to your site. It tells you what the climate there actually does to wood — sun, rain, damp, frost, salt — and roughly how long each species lasts before it needs work.
Any location on earth
Climate and exposure anywhere
Search a city, street or site. The climate class and the exposure loads are computed from ERA5 reanalysis for that exact point — not read from a regional table.
Sweden
Stockholm
59.329, 18.069 · Dfb — humid continental · 3 km to open water
Reading ERA5 reanalysis…
Modelled service life here
- Robinia (Black Locust)15–78 yrs · P50 45
- Acetylated Radiata Pine14–80 yrs · P50 45
- Iroko (FSC certified)14–80 yrs · P50 45
- Thermally Modified Ash11–79 yrs · P50 42
- Western Red Cedar10–60 yrs · P50 33
- European Oak10–59 yrs · P50 33
- Sweet Chestnut9–57 yrs · P50 32
- Thermally Modified Pine9–58 yrs · P50 32
Untreated, south-facing, fully exposed vertical cladding. Modelled estimates under method WI-SL, not observed lifetimes.
Sources and methodClimate archive, land data and the service-life model
Land outline: Natural Earth 110 m, public domain. Climate: ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) served through the Open-Meteo historical archive, ten-year normals. Service life: WoodIntel Index, method WI-SL with calibration WI-CAL. Station coordinates and every formula are published — see the method page.