🇫🇷 Marseille, France
Marseille is a major city of France. Real-Earth coordinates 43.292°, 5.373°, population 1,400,000. 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 Marseille last 30 days, by the Skydex receiver network
5,264 aircraft on 31 days · 26,168 sightings (one aircraft on one day) · type known for 5,221 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 Marseille last 30 days, AIS via the Skydex feed
382 vessels on 30 days · 1,308 sightings (one vessel on one day) · type known for 250 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 Marseille within 120 km, heard by the Skydex receiver network
- Marseille Provence Airport (MRS) · 20 km · 3,259 flights in 30 days
- Aix-en-Provence (BA 114) Airport (QXB) · 24 km · 2 flights in 30 days
- Toulon-Hyères Airport (TLN) · 66 km · 33 flights in 30 days
- Nîmes-Arles-Camargue Airport (FNI) · 93 km · 32 flights in 30 days
- Montpellier-Méditerranée Airport (MPL) · 118 km · 399 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 Marseille
Flying conditions in Marseille
Sunrise 07:26 · Sunset 17:18 · 9 h 52 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 Marseille through the year
November in Marseille averages 12.1°C with winds around 22 km/h, and roughly 55% of days are good for flying — about 8 days see rain.
Fewest weather restrictions: August, June, July; March is the most restricted at 47% usable days. (That's about wind and rain, not comfort — check the temperatures below.)
| Month | Avg temp | Wind | Rain days | Good to fly |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 8.8°C | 25 km/h | 12 | 55% |
| February | 10.3°C | 23 km/h | 13 | 55% |
| March | 11.3°C | 25 km/h | 10 | 47% |
| April | 15.1°C | 20 km/h | 6 | 77% |
| May | 18.5°C | 22 km/h | 5 | 82% |
| June | 24.4°C | 18 km/h | 1 | 88% |
| July | 26.2°C | 22 km/h | 1 | 84% |
| August | 25.1°C | 20 km/h | 1 | 89% |
| September | 19.5°C | 23 km/h | 6 | 65% |
| October | 17.1°C | 22 km/h | 11 | 63% |
| November | 12.1°C | 22 km/h | 8 | 55% |
| December | 9.6°C | 22 km/h | 6 | 63% |
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 Marseille
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What you can do here
- Fly Marseille in an FPV drone or as a gull, from 43.292°, 5.373° — 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 Marseille.