Open Courts

Find Your Court. Play Your Game.

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What it does

# OpenCourts: Find your court. Play your game. Finding a place to play tennis should be simple. Yet a quick search can leave you piecing together a park name, a map pin, whether the courts have lights, and whether last night’s rain has cleared. OpenCourts brings those details into one place so you can spend less time planning and more time playing. Search for a city, ZIP code, or address to explore nearby tennis courts on an interactive map and in a list. Tap a court to see its name, location, address when available, distance, listed lighting, court count, and access information. When you find one that looks right, you can open directions from the court details. On a phone, you can move between the list and map and jump straight to a court you’ve selected. OpenCourts also helps answer the question that comes after a rainy day: **which courts might be playable first?** Rain can vary across a city. One neighborhood may have had a downpour while another stayed dry. The recent rain planner checks radar estimates at individual court locations over the past one, three, and six hours, then highlights nearby courts with a better estimated chance of being playable. Each recommendation includes a playability score, a confidence level, and the rainfall readings behind it. For planning ahead, OpenCourts uses National Weather Service forecasts to find promising play times over the next seven days. It considers temperature, wind, and the chance of rain, and shows specific time slots when the forecast supports them. If several good windows are available on a day, you can see more than one. You can narrow the court list by distance, surface, public access, and listed lighting. OpenCourts focuses its rain recommendations on courts that are not identified as private, membership only, fee based, or part of a club. Court locations and details come from OpenStreetMap, where community contributions help improve the information over time. OpenCourts is a free, independent project built for anyone who wants to get out and play. It does not book courts or confirm that one is open or dry. Radar estimates cannot tell whether a surface has drained, and mapped details such as access, lights, and addresses may be incomplete. You should check conditions and local rules before heading out. Whether you’re looking for a familiar court close to home, playing somewhere new, or trying to find a dry spot after the rain, OpenCourts gives you a clearer place to start.