About Veabird

See the perfect day coming.

Veabird is an independent forecast site founded by Alex Houck. It grew out of a simple frustration: planning a beach or ski trip meant checking a dozen weather, seaweed and snow sites, and none of them answered the real question, which day, and where, will actually be great?

Veabird answers it with a single letter grade, A+ to F, for every place and date. Vea is Spanish for "see", and a bluebird day is the clear, sunny day after a storm.

Vea, our bluebird, waits out the storm for the clear day after it.

What we forecast

Beach: 1,700+ Caribbean, Gulf, Mexican Pacific and Hawaii resorts, with a satellite-trained sargassum (seaweed) model, water, waves, UV, crowds and hurricanes.
Snow: run-by-run conditions at major ski resorts, checked against SNOTEL stations.
Trips and outdoors: foliage, rivers, waterfalls, boating, camping, golf and game days.

Meet the cast

Veabird has a small recurring cast. Vea is the bluebird who answers questions in Ask Vea. Sol covers the beach and Theo the snow. Claire, a mom of three from Wisconsin, plans the family trips, and Cole, a CPA in Dallas, chases Colorado powder on a budget.

Claire, back at the ocean for the first time in a few years.

Cole at an airport gate before dawn, grinning at his phone after a big snowfall — Cole, on the 5 a.m. flight after a foot of new snow.

Sol, Theo, Claire and Cole are Veabird's AI-generated characters, and Vea is our animated mascot. They are not real customers, and they don't review places or vouch for any resort.

Who's behind it

Alex Houck

Founder & CEO

AI and prediction veteran with over 15 years of experience in development, marketing and prediction. BS in Engineering from the University of Minnesota Duluth.

Small on purpose

Veabird is a small, independent company, not a travel conglomerate. When you book a hotel or follow a partner link here, the money supports an independent site that publishes its methods and source code, and that builds free tools for independent vacation-rental owners, like the demand and pricing check for hosts.

Next to our own hotel prices we show what Expedia, Booking.com and other sites charge for the same room, even when they're cheaper. If we aren't the best deal, you'll see it.

How we stay independent

Veabird is free. It's paid for by affiliate partners and advertising, but partners never influence forecasts, grades or rankings. See our affiliate disclosure. Our forecast methods are public, and so is the satellite record our sargassum model learns from: the Caribbean sargassum dataset is free to download and reuse.

Get in touch

Questions, corrections or partnership ideas: contact us. We are hiring, open to partnerships and open to investment.