🇨🇦 Vancouver, Canada
Vancouver is a major city of Canada. Real-Earth coordinates 49.275°, -123.124°, population 2,313,328. 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 Vancouver last 30 days, by the Skydex receiver network
2,433 aircraft on 31 days · 10,004 sightings (one aircraft on one day) · type known for 2,424 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 Vancouver last 30 days, AIS via the Skydex feed
907 vessels on 30 days · 6,876 sightings (one vessel on one day) · type known for 641 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 Vancouver within 120 km, heard by the Skydex receiver network
- Vancouver International Airport (YVR) · 10 km · 11,406 flights in 30 days
- Pitt Meadows Airport (CYPK) · 31 km · 1 flight in 30 days
- Nanaimo Airport (YCD) · 59 km · 221 flights in 30 days
- Abbotsford Airport (YXX) · 62 km · 301 flights in 30 days
- Bellingham International Airport (BLI) · 69 km · 212 flights in 30 days
- Victoria International Airport (YYJ) · 73 km · 857 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 Vancouver
Flying conditions in Vancouver
Sunrise 07:15 · Sunset 16:36 · 9 h 22 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 Vancouver through the year
November in Vancouver averages 6.8°C with winds around 18 km/h, and roughly 37% of days are good for flying — about 20 days see rain.
Fewest weather restrictions: June, July, August; December is the most restricted at 32% usable days. (That's about wind and rain, not comfort — check the temperatures below.)
| Month | Avg temp | Wind | Rain days | Good to fly |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 3.9°C | 14 km/h | 11 | 65% |
| February | 3.5°C | 15 km/h | 17 | 39% |
| March | 6.1°C | 18 km/h | 21 | 35% |
| April | 9.7°C | 16 km/h | 8 | 75% |
| May | 13.7°C | 15 km/h | 10 | 76% |
| June | 16.4°C | 15 km/h | 7 | 87% |
| July | 18.8°C | 14 km/h | 5 | 84% |
| August | 18.7°C | 15 km/h | 6 | 82% |
| September | 15.9°C | 15 km/h | 7 | 80% |
| October | 10.2°C | 17 km/h | 18 | 47% |
| November | 6.8°C | 18 km/h | 20 | 37% |
| December | 5.3°C | 18 km/h | 22 | 32% |
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 Vancouver
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What you can do here
- Fly Vancouver in an FPV drone or as a gull, from 49.275°, -123.124° — 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 Vancouver.