🥶 Heat & Cold Exposure Calculator

Temperature alone lies. Wind takes heat off you far faster than the number suggests, humidity stops you cooling yourself down, and wet clothing changes everything again. This works out what the air actually feels like, how long you have before frostbite or heatstroke becomes likely, and what to do about it — using the formulas weather services and mountain rescue actually use.

These are population averages for a resting or lightly active adult. Children, older people, anyone on certain medicines and anyone who has been drinking lose heat differently — usually faster. In the UK call 999 for suspected hypothermia or heatstroke; 111 for advice.
Air temperature4°C
Wind speed25 km/h
Humidity60%
The formulas, and where they stop being true

Wind chill uses the North American/European standard 13.12 + 0.6215T − 11.37V0.16 + 0.3965TV0.16 with T in °C and V in km/h, measured 10 m up and on a face. It is only defined below 10°C and above about 5 km/h; outside that range this tool shows the air temperature instead of inventing a number. It says nothing about frostbite on covered skin, or about a wind you are sheltered from.

Heat index is the Rothfusz regression with the standard low-humidity and high-humidity corrections, computed in Fahrenheit then converted. It assumes shade: in full sun the real load is roughly 8°C higher, and it assumes you can still sweat.

Wetness is applied as an effective-temperature penalty rather than a formula, because the honest answer is that water conducts heat roughly 25 times better than air and there is no simple correction that covers everything from damp socks to full immersion. Treat the wet column as a warning, not a measurement. The single most useful line on this page is the one about getting wet clothes off.