🇫🇷 Bordeaux, France
Bordeaux is a mid-sized city in France. Real-Earth coordinates 44.852°, -0.597°, population 803,000. Quiet airspace and open terrain a couple of minutes out — a forgiving place to learn the sticks before you take them somewhere tighter. 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 Bordeaux last 30 days, by the Skydex receiver network
3,433 aircraft on 31 days · 12,752 sightings (one aircraft on one day) · type known for 3,427 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 Bordeaux last 30 days, AIS via the Skydex feed
48 vessels on 24 days · 301 sightings (one vessel on one day) · type known for 42 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 Bordeaux within 120 km, heard by the Skydex receiver network
- Bordeaux-Mérignac Airport (BOD) · 10 km · 1,474 flights in 30 days
- Bergerac-Roumanière Airport (EGC) · 88 km · 99 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 Bordeaux
Flying conditions in Bordeaux
Sunrise 07:54 · Sunset 17:38 · 9 h 44 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 Bordeaux through the year
November in Bordeaux averages 11°C with winds around 16 km/h, and roughly 67% of days are good for flying — about 12 days see rain.
Fewest weather restrictions: July, June, August; January is the most restricted at 44% usable days. (That's about wind and rain, not comfort — check the temperatures below.)
| Month | Avg temp | Wind | Rain days | Good to fly |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 6.8°C | 19 km/h | 18 | 44% |
| February | 9.5°C | 18 km/h | 15 | 55% |
| March | 10.6°C | 16 km/h | 8 | 84% |
| April | 15°C | 15 km/h | 10 | 78% |
| May | 17.7°C | 15 km/h | 10 | 74% |
| June | 23.3°C | 15 km/h | 10 | 85% |
| July | 24.4°C | 16 km/h | 8 | 87% |
| August | 22.6°C | 14 km/h | 6 | 85% |
| September | 17.1°C | 16 km/h | 14 | 65% |
| October | 15.2°C | 16 km/h | 13 | 66% |
| November | 11°C | 16 km/h | 12 | 67% |
| December | 7.9°C | 15 km/h | 10 | 74% |
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 Bordeaux
- PixelBear26 visited Wings
Aloïs Guichard visited Wings
- SilentOwl10 visited Globe
- BraveWolf35 visited Globe
- BraveWolf35 visited Wings
- CosmicCat10 visited Globe
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What you can do here
- Fly Bordeaux in an FPV drone or as a gull, from 44.852°, -0.597° — 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 Bordeaux.