Road Trip Planner

Weather on the road.

See the weather you'll actually drive into — not the weather at the moment you leave. Enter a US start and destination; we'll sample the forecast along your route.

Flood Warning · severe · Cook, IL; DuPage, IL; Kane, IL; Kendall, IL; Will, IL
Flood Warning issued August 1 at 11:00AM CDT until August 1 at 1:00PM CDT by NWS Chicago IL

Flood Advisory · minor · Cook, IL
Flood Advisory issued August 1 at 10:22AM CDT until August 1 at 11:15AM CDT by NWS Chicago IL

Trip summary

Route

Chicago, Illinois → Nashville, Tennessee

Distance

467 mi

Drive time

8 hr 50 min + 1 hr stopped

Departing

4:04 PM

Arrives

1:54 AM · Sun, 8/2

Stops are sampled at even drive-time intervals. Each shows the NWS hourly forecast at that location for your estimated arrival hour. Adjust your departure by leaving later or earlier — forecasts shift accordingly.

Departure options

Same route, different start. Lower score = smoother driving weather.

1 hr earlier 3:04 PM 6 stops of showers and thunderstorms 526 score Your time 4:04 PM 6 stops of showers and thunderstorms 522 score Selected 1 hr later 5:04 PM 6 stops of showers and thunderstorms 523 score

Stop-by-stop

4:04 PM · 0 mi in

Leaving Chicago, Illinois

71° Showers And Thunderstorms 94%
5:19 PM · 67 mi in

Near Township of Union, IN

70° Showers And Thunderstorms 83%
Rest break 15 min 6:04 PM
6:50 PM · 134 mi in

Near Township of Washington, IN

74° Chance Showers And Thunderstorms 66%
8:06 PM · 200 mi in

Near Township of Needham, IN

77° Showers And Thunderstorms Likely 71%
Rest break 15 min 8:19 PM
9:37 PM · 267 mi in

Near Vienna, IN

80° Chance Showers And Thunderstorms 39%
Rest break 15 min 10:34 PM
11:08 PM · 334 mi in

Near Elizabethtown, KY

79° Slight Chance Showers And Thunderstorms 24%
12:23 AM · Sun, 8/2 · 401 mi in

Near Bowling Green, KY

77° Partly Cloudy 7%
Rest break 15 min 12:49 AM · Sun, 8/2
Sunset 12:52 AM · Sun, 8/2
1:54 AM · Sun, 8/2 · 468 mi in

Arriving in Nashville, Tennessee

76° Mostly Clear 7%

Powered by OpenStreetMap routing (OSRM) and the National Weather Service. Drive times are estimates and don't account for traffic, weather slowdowns, or stops. Hourly forecasts beyond ~7 days are interpolated and less reliable.