🇫🇷 Lille, France
Lille is a major city of France. Real-Earth coordinates 50.652°, 3.078°, population 1,044,000. 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.
Seen on the water near Lille last 30 days, AIS via the Skydex feed
3,311 vessels on 30 days · 9,542 sightings (one vessel on one day) · type known for 2,578 of them.
📡 1 of them was heard by a Skydex volunteer receiver rather than by the upstream feed. Run one here
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 Lille within 120 km, heard by the Skydex receiver network
- Lille-Lesquin Airport (LIL) · 10 km · 451 flights in 30 days
- Ostend-Bruges International Airport (OST) · 63 km · 88 flights in 30 days
- Albert-Bray Airport (BYF) · 80 km · 1 flight in 30 days
- Brussels South Charleroi Airport (CRL) · 100 km · 2,678 flights in 30 days
- Brussels Airport (BRU) · 103 km · 9,329 flights in 30 days
- Antwerp International Airport (Deurne) (ANR) · 114 km · 38 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 Lille
Flying conditions in Lille
Sunrise 07:55 · Sunset 17:06 · 9 h 11 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 Lille through the year
November in Lille averages 8.1°C with winds around 18 km/h, and roughly 73% of days are good for flying — about 9 days see rain.
Fewest weather restrictions: April, July, March; January is the most restricted at 56% usable days. (That's about wind and rain, not comfort — check the temperatures below.)
| Month | Avg temp | Wind | Rain days | Good to fly |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 3.6°C | 19 km/h | 15 | 56% |
| February | 6°C | 19 km/h | 14 | 59% |
| March | 8.1°C | 16 km/h | 7 | 81% |
| April | 11.9°C | 16 km/h | 5 | 90% |
| May | 15.3°C | 18 km/h | 11 | 74% |
| June | 19.4°C | 19 km/h | 10 | 73% |
| July | 20.3°C | 17 km/h | 8 | 86% |
| August | 19.5°C | 18 km/h | 7 | 76% |
| September | 15.5°C | 20 km/h | 13 | 67% |
| October | 12.5°C | 19 km/h | 12 | 69% |
| November | 8.1°C | 18 km/h | 9 | 73% |
| December | 6.2°C | 20 km/h | 8 | 79% |
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 Lille
- CrimsonFalcon78 visited Wings
- QuickCat4 visited Wings
- SilentWolf16 visited Wings
- SilentWolf57 visited Wings
- CosmicFox67 visited Wings
- QuickFalcon16 visited Globe
Where to fly a drone near Lille
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What you can do here
- Fly Lille in an FPV drone or as a gull, from 50.652°, 3.078° — 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 Lille.