🇧🇪 Brussels, Belgium
Brussels is the capital of Belgium. Real-Earth coordinates 50.835°, 4.331°, population 1,743,000. The busiest sky in the country — monuments to circle, other pilots in the air and the city's own tower frequency on the radio. Skydex flies the real Earth here — the elevation, coastline and city layout under the aircraft come from the same data the map does, and the sky is shared with everyone else flying it.
Seen on the water near Brussels last 30 days, AIS via the Skydex feed
3,295 vessels on 30 days · 9,612 sightings (one vessel on one day) · type known for 2,564 of them.
Counted from the AIS positions the Skydex feed received here — sampled once a day in local daytime, plus whenever pilots fly here — not a port register. Ship tracking
Airports near Brussels within 120 km, heard by the Skydex receiver network
- Brussels Airport (BRU) · 13 km · 9,329 flights in 30 days
- Antwerp International Airport (Deurne) (ANR) · 40 km · 38 flights in 30 days
- Brussels South Charleroi Airport (CRL) · 43 km · 2,678 flights in 30 days
- Liège Airport (LGG) · 81 km · 1,126 flights in 30 days
- Lille-Lesquin Airport (LIL) · 93 km · 451 flights in 30 days
- Eindhoven Airport (EIN) · 100 km · 1,882 flights in 30 days
Flights are airline flight numbers our receivers heard heading to or from the airport, once a day each — not runway movements. All airports
Activity in Brussels
Flying conditions in Brussels
Sunrise 07:51 · Sunset 17:01 · 9 h 10 m of daylight (local time)
Verdict weighs gusts, precipitation and cold — the things that actually decide whether a drone or a bird has a good time up there. Sunrise and sunset are computed from the city's coordinates, not forecast. Forecast issued 2026-11-11 03:03 UTC and refreshed live in your browser. Weather by Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0).
Flying weather in Brussels through the year
November in Brussels averages 7.8°C with winds around 18 km/h, and roughly 68% of days are good for flying — about 13 days see rain.
Fewest weather restrictions: April, March, December; January is the most restricted at 61% usable days. (That's about wind and rain, not comfort — check the temperatures below.)
| Month | Avg temp | Wind | Rain days | Good to fly |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 3.3°C | 18 km/h | 13 | 61% |
| February | 5.7°C | 18 km/h | 14 | 63% |
| March | 8.2°C | 15 km/h | 6 | 84% |
| April | 12.1°C | 15 km/h | 5 | 88% |
| May | 15.5°C | 16 km/h | 12 | 69% |
| June | 19.8°C | 17 km/h | 12 | 72% |
| July | 20.3°C | 16 km/h | 10 | 75% |
| August | 19.6°C | 17 km/h | 10 | 76% |
| September | 15.7°C | 20 km/h | 11 | 67% |
| October | 12.4°C | 18 km/h | 11 | 65% |
| November | 7.8°C | 18 km/h | 13 | 68% |
| December | 5.8°C | 19 km/h | 9 | 77% |
Based on ERA5 reanalysis. “Good to fly” counts days without strong wind, real rain or hard frost — the conditions that actually ground a drone.
Recent activity in Brussels
Omar Aouragh visited Wings
- CosmicWolf11 visited Wings
- SilentBear19 visited Wings
- SilentBear85 visited Wings
- PixelOwl48 visited Wings
- BraveWolf23 visited Wings
Where to fly a drone near Brussels
🛩 Where to fly a drone in Belgium →
What you can do here
- Fly Brussels in an FPV drone or as a gull, from 50.835°, 4.331° — keyboard and mouse, a gamepad, or a real RC transmitter over USB.
- Check the weather first: live wind, gusts and cloud over the city, plus the month-by-month flyable-days table above.
- Watch real traffic — aircraft overhead and ships on the water come from live ADS-B and AIS feeds, not from a script.
- Meet other pilots in the same sky: city chat room, radio, and the walkie-talkie frequency for Brussels.