Press kit
Everything here is free to use with credit to Autumn Guide. For an interview, a data question, or a figure you want checked before you publish it, write to hello@autumnguide.com.
In one paragraph
Autumn Guide is a fall foliage forecast that covers both hemispheres on a single map. It predicts when leaves turn from weather rather than from a fixed calendar, running a phenology model on ERA5 temperatures at 4,401 anchor points across 123 regions in 51 countries, and it redraws the map every morning through the season. The site is built and run by Benjamin Janes, and the method, the calibration data, and the known errors are published in full on the methodology page.
Facts
- July 2026
- Benjamin Janes, sole founder
- 123 foliage regions across 51 countries, both hemispheres
- 4,401 weather anchor points on a 0.75 degree lattice, refined with 30 m terrain
- Rebuilt every morning from observed weather, August through November
- 875 venues and 63 city guides
- ERA5 via Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0), built on the Copernicus Climate Change Service
- hello@autumnguide.com
Who runs it
Benjamin Janes builds and runs Autumn Guide. He is a software developer, not a forester; the forecast is a phenology model driven by ERA5 weather data, calibrated against published peak dates and checked each season against photos and state foliage reports.
Profile: github.com/bjanes0. Longer bio on the about page.
Logo files
The wordmark is an SVG, so it scales to any size. The leaf mark on its own is the site icon at 512 by 512 pixels. Please do not recolor either one or set the wordmark in a different typeface.
Images you can use
Each region has a forecast card showing this season's peak window for that region, generated from the live data and 1200 by 630 pixels. Credit them as Map: Autumn Guide (autumnguide.com). Cards exist for every region on the site, at /regions/<slug>/opengraph-image.
Embed a forecast
Any region's current forecast can be embedded on your own page. Pick a region, paste the snippet, and keep the credit line underneath it. The embed updates itself as the season moves, so a story published in August still shows the right dates in October.
A badge for listed venues
Orchards, corn mazes, and festivals listed on the site can display a badge linking back to their listing. The badge and the code for it are on the listing page, along with the form for getting listed in the first place.
The underlying data
Peak dates, region aggregates, and the raw forecast grid are published under CC BY 4.0 on the data page, which also covers how to cite them. If you want a cut of the data that is not published there, ask.