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Where the wind is blowing now, and where the turbines stand
model · Open-Meteo, 100 m · MW per wind farm: estimated splitThe background is the current wind speed at a height of 100 metres — where the blades of Hungary's turbines turn. The moving streaks trace the actual path of the air: they drift along the wind-direction field, so you can see where the flow is coming from and where it is heading. The circles are the existing wind farms. Click on any of them.
The MW per wind farm is not measured. We take the measured national total, which comes from MAVIR, and split it between the wind farms according to how strong the wind is at each site right now and how much capacity is installed there. The national total itself is measured.
Where it's windy, and where it's generating
model · Open-Meteo · MW per wind farm: estimated splitThe windiest of the 160 points on a grid laid over the country, mapped to their regions.
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The next four days
forecast · Open-Meteo and the fleet curve measured in 2025What today's 329 MW fleet would produce from the forecast wind. This is a modelled value: we weight the forecast wind at each wind farm by its installed capacity and run it through the fleet curve measured in 2025 — not the manufacturer's power curve, because that routinely promises more than the fleet actually delivers.
How much does the fleet deliver at a given wind speed?
measured · 2025 · energy-charts and the Open-Meteo archiveEach dot is one hour of 2025: the average wind at 100 metres across the wind farms, and the fleet's measured output in that hour. The line is the measured average — it is also what the forecast above is calculated from. The dashed line is what the manufacturer's power curve would promise if the same wind were blowing at every wind farm.
How big a slice does wind get?
measured · energy-charts · now and 2025—
The wind blows when the sun isn't shining
measured · the past 48 hours and 2025Solar panels generate during daylight hours, but that is not when consumption peaks. The two curves below show the same 48 hours; further down, in the ‘Why it matters’ box, the measured daily profile of 2025 shows when the peak comes.
The daily rhythm is only half the story. The other half is the season: the share of its own installed capacity that each source delivered, month by month, in 2025.
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How often does it blow?
measured · 2025 · 35,040 quarter-hoursA ‘19% capacity factor’ is the most misunderstood number in wind power. It does not mean the turbines generate 19% of the time. It means that, over the year as a whole, they delivered 19% of their rated capacity — running almost flat out some of the time and standing still at other times. This chart lines up all 35,040 measured quarter-hours of 2025 in descending order.
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Fifteen frozen years
measured · installed capacity · energy-charts, legislationThe same wind, on both sides of the border
measured · energy-charts · 2025 and nowThe Little Hungarian Plain and Burgenland lie in the same wind corridor: the westerly flow that comes in through the Vienna Gate sweeps across both. We measured it, too — at six wind farm sites on each side, the average wind speed at 100 metres in 2025 was 5.37 m/s on the Hungarian side and 5.56 m/s on the Austrian side: a difference of 3.5% relative to the Hungarian figure. That does not explain fifteen times the output.
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The neighbours now
measured · energy-chartsEach country is shown with its own latest measured value. The sources publish with different delays, so the times on the cards differ too. energy-charts publishes no data for Ukraine.
2025, the full year
measured · energy-chartsThe capacity factor uses the average of the installed capacity at the start and the end of the year (Serbia's fleet grew from 0.74 to 1.11 GW in 2025); below 10 MW we do not show it.
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How much would it be now if…
calculated · current measured output, scaled upNot a model, not a forecast: we scale up the output measured right now. The same wind, the same sites, the same kind of turbines — just more of them.
A taller tower reaches stronger, steadier wind. On 31 July 2026 the tower height cap rose from 130 to 199 metres, so that limit no longer holds such machines back — but today's Hungarian fleet still works at 100 metres.
Why the north-west, of all places?
model · Open-Meteo, 100 m · logarithmic wind profile above thatHungary is not a windy country: average wind speeds range from 2 to 6 m/s, and an average year has 131 windy days. The defining feature of the Carpathian Basin is that its ring of mountains shelters it from the wind.
There is one gate, though, that lets it in. The Vienna Gate — the gap between the Alps and the Little Carpathians east of Vienna — lets the westerly flow into the Little Hungarian Plain. That is why the overwhelming majority of Hungary's 163 turbines stand in Győr-Moson-Sopron and Komárom-Esztergom counties, and why the south-west of Transdanubia and the south of the Great Hungarian Plain are almost empty.
The second factor is height. Above the ground the wind is sheared: the higher the blade reaches, the stronger and steadier the wind. Working through every hour of 2025 with the wind farms' modelled wind, a logarithmic wind profile and the power curve of today's fleet, we find that the same machine would have produced 8.7% more energy at 130 metres and 22% more at 199 metres than at 100 metres. In December 2023 the law capped towers at 130 metres; since 31 July 2026, towers of up to 199 metres can be built — yet the Hungarian fleet still works at 100 metres today. There is a cap at all because the law limits every tall structure to 130 metres and wind turbine towers were exempted only up to 199 metres; a taller tower adds less and less per metre while its cost keeps rising, and even outside the 40 km zone around military radars and the 15 km zone around military airfields, it has to be shown that the turbine does not interfere with national defence.