🇨🇦 Montréal, Canada
Montréal is a major city of Canada. Real-Earth coordinates 45.502°, -73.585°, population 3,678,000. A river or a coast to follow, tall enough buildings to make a proximity line interesting, and open airspace once you clear the centre. 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.
Heard over Montréal last 30 days, by the Skydex receiver network
3,894 aircraft on 31 days · 15,713 sightings (one aircraft on one day) · type known for 3,862 of them.
Counted from what our volunteers’ antennas received — no other tracker involved. About the network · the stations · add yours
Seen on the water near Montréal last 30 days, AIS via the Skydex feed
224 vessels on 30 days · 766 sightings (one vessel on one day) · type known for 190 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 Montréal within 120 km, heard by the Skydex receiver network
- Montreal / Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport (YUL) · 13 km · 9,508 flights in 30 days
- Montréal / Saint-Hubert Airport (YHU) · 13 km · 361 flights in 30 days
- Montreal International (Mirabel) Airport (YMX) · 40 km · 268 flights in 30 days
- Plattsburgh International Airport (PBG) · 95 km · 123 flights in 30 days
- Trois-Rivières Airport (YRQ) · 118 km · 3 flights in 30 days
- Burlington International Airport (BTV) · 119 km · 1,022 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 Montréal
Flying conditions in Montréal
Sunrise 06:46 · Sunset 16:29 · 9 h 43 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 Montréal through the year
November in Montréal averages 2.4°C with winds around 18 km/h, and roughly 47% of days are good for flying — about 16 days see rain.
Fewest weather restrictions: September, October, June; February is the most restricted at 5% usable days. (That's about wind and rain, not comfort — check the temperatures below.)
| Month | Avg temp | Wind | Rain days | Good to fly |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | -10.4°C | 18 km/h | 15 | 5% |
| February | -10°C | 18 km/h | 10 | 5% |
| March | -1.9°C | 19 km/h | 15 | 19% |
| April | 5.9°C | 18 km/h | 15 | 58% |
| May | 12.6°C | 16 km/h | 17 | 53% |
| June | 19.8°C | 15 km/h | 13 | 70% |
| July | 22.4°C | 15 km/h | 12 | 65% |
| August | 20.5°C | 15 km/h | 12 | 68% |
| September | 16.7°C | 14 km/h | 6 | 82% |
| October | 10.3°C | 17 km/h | 8 | 73% |
| November | 2.4°C | 18 km/h | 16 | 47% |
| December | -7°C | 18 km/h | 14 | 6% |
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 Montréal
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What you can do here
- Fly Montréal in an FPV drone or as a gull, from 45.502°, -73.585° — 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 Montréal.