🇫🇮 Helsinki, Finland
Helsinki is the capital of Finland. Real-Earth coordinates 60.164°, 24.932°, population 1,115,000. 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.
Heard over Helsinki last 30 days, by the Skydex receiver network
864 aircraft on 31 days · 3,442 sightings (one aircraft on one day).
Counted from what our volunteers’ antennas received — no other tracker involved. About the network · the stations · add yours
Seen on the water near Helsinki last 30 days, AIS via the Skydex feed
361 vessels on 30 days · 1,778 sightings (one vessel on one day) · type known for 248 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 Helsinki within 120 km, heard by the Skydex receiver network
- Helsinki Vantaa Airport (HEL) · 17 km · 6,144 flights in 30 days
- Tallinn Airport (TLL) · 84 km · 988 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 Helsinki
Visitors came from 3 countries this month.
“Pilots” counts signed-in players; “visits” counts sessions, not unique people.
Flying conditions in Helsinki
Sunrise 08:08 · Sunset 15:59 · 7 h 50 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 01:44 UTC and refreshed live in your browser. Weather by Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0).
Flying weather in Helsinki through the year
November in Helsinki averages 4°C with winds around 24 km/h, and roughly 48% of days are good for flying — about 14 days see rain.
Fewest weather restrictions: March, May, April; January is the most restricted at 19% usable days. (That's about wind and rain, not comfort — check the temperatures below.)
| Month | Avg temp | Wind | Rain days | Good to fly |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | -4.4°C | 22 km/h | 13 | 19% |
| February | -6.2°C | 18 km/h | 6 | 29% |
| March | 2.2°C | 22 km/h | 7 | 79% |
| April | 5.2°C | 20 km/h | 9 | 75% |
| May | 10.3°C | 20 km/h | 10 | 77% |
| June | 14.9°C | 20 km/h | 17 | 58% |
| July | 18.7°C | 18 km/h | 12 | 62% |
| August | 16.7°C | 20 km/h | 15 | 65% |
| September | 14.5°C | 20 km/h | 12 | 63% |
| October | 8.2°C | 23 km/h | 12 | 60% |
| November | 4°C | 24 km/h | 14 | 48% |
| December | 1.2°C | 25 km/h | 14 | 42% |
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 Helsinki
Kyrylo Tokarenko visited Wings
- BraveFox10 visited Wings
Simukas visited Wings
- PixelWolf14 visited Wings
- QuickWolf14 visited Globe
- QuickBear36 visited Globe
Where to fly a drone near Helsinki
🛩 Where to fly a drone in Finland →
What you can do here
- Fly Helsinki in an FPV drone or as a gull, from 60.164°, 24.932° — 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 Helsinki.