🇫🇷 Lyon, France
Lyon is a major city of France. Real-Earth coordinates 45.772°, 4.828°, population 1,423,000. 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 Lyon last 30 days, by the Skydex receiver network
6,317 aircraft on 31 days · 31,797 sightings (one aircraft on one day) · type known for 6,279 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 Lyon last 30 days, AIS via the Skydex feed
1 vessel on 1 day.
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 Lyon within 120 km, heard by the Skydex receiver network
- Lyon Saint-Exupéry Airport (LYS) · 21 km · 3,337 flights in 30 days
- Grenoble-Isère Airport (GNB) · 60 km · 49 flights in 30 days
- Chambéry-Savoie Airport (CMF) · 83 km · 29 flights in 30 days
- Geneva Cointrin International Airport (GVA) · 112 km · 5,283 flights in 30 days
- Le Puy-Loudes Airport (LPY) · 113 km · 29 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 Lyon
Flying conditions in Lyon
Sunrise 07:34 · Sunset 17:14 · 9 h 39 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 Lyon through the year
November in Lyon averages 7.9°C with winds around 16 km/h, and roughly 77% of days are good for flying — about 10 days see rain.
Fewest weather restrictions: July, June, April; January is the most restricted at 58% 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 | 18 km/h | 10 | 58% |
| February | 6.6°C | 16 km/h | 12 | 70% |
| March | 8.4°C | 16 km/h | 11 | 73% |
| April | 13.4°C | 14 km/h | 8 | 80% |
| May | 17°C | 15 km/h | 9 | 77% |
| June | 24°C | 15 km/h | 8 | 82% |
| July | 24.1°C | 16 km/h | 7 | 83% |
| August | 23°C | 15 km/h | 7 | 77% |
| September | 16.3°C | 16 km/h | 12 | 68% |
| October | 13.1°C | 17 km/h | 10 | 71% |
| November | 7.9°C | 16 km/h | 10 | 77% |
| December | 4.3°C | 13 km/h | 9 | 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 Lyon
- BraveWolf49 visited Wings
- CrimsonFox29 visited Wings
- SilentCat35 visited Wings
- QuickFalcon18 visited Wings
- CrimsonWolf2 visited Wings
- QuickBear60 visited Wings
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What you can do here
- Fly Lyon in an FPV drone or as a gull, from 45.772°, 4.828° — 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 Lyon.