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Explore real data about the planet.

Eight maps built in — typhoons, earthquakes, heatwaves and more. Then bring your own.

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Free · about 74 MB · macOS 13 or later · Apple silicon · works offline

First time: macOS asks you to allow it — how to open it

NimbleMap showing 14,537 big earthquakes since 1900 as points coloured by magnitude around the Pacific; the 2011 Tohoku earthquake is selected and its card says its magnitude of 9.1 is higher than 99% of them.

NimbleMap with 4,999 typhoon tracks over Asia and the Pacific; Typhoon Haiyan is selected and its card says its top wind of 170 knots is higher than 99% of 4,547 storms.

Big earthquakes since 1900, coloured by magnitude

Built in

Start with something amazing

Typhoons and hurricanes

4,999 storm tracks since 1980. Haiyan’s 170-knot winds beat 99% of 4,547 storms.

IBTrACS v04r01

The walls of Beijing in 1866 over satellite imagery, with a card saying the city covered 35.3 km², more than 99% of the 1,789 walled cities.

Walled cities of China, 1866

1,789 city walls. Beijing’s enclosed 35.3 km², larger than 99% of them.

Xue et al. 2021 · CC BY 4.0

Heatwave intensity over Europe and North Africa on 16 July 2023, with one cell selected and the time slider below.

Heatwaves, summer 2023

Press Play and watch the heat move across the world.

Copernicus GDO / JRC · CC BY 4.0

Also built in: earthquakes since 1900, volcanoes, airports, power plants, world cities, countries and elevation.

Your data

Then bring your own

Drop in a spreadsheet of places, a GPX track from your run, or a satellite image. It lands in the right place — no setup.

CSV/Excel
GeoJSON
Shapefile
GeoPackage
KML
GPX
GeoTIFF
NetCDF

Where can I find map data? →

How it works

Made for the curious

An object card: the 2011 Tohoku earthquake’s magnitude of 9.1 is higher than 99% of 14,537 earthquakes.

Answers before tools

Click anything. See what it is and how it compares.

Beijing’s card ranks its walled area against all 1,789 walled cities of 1866, highest first, while the map shows only the Beijing area.

Honest numbers

Every number comes from all your data, not just what’s on screen.

A filter written as a sentence, “Show storms where strength is any of Category 5”, says 228 match before you apply it, with Cancel beside Apply.

Try anything

Every step can be undone, and every result explains itself.

PRO

NimbleMap Pro: ask your map questions in plain words. Free with an account — coming in the next version.

What Pro adds →