🇫🇷 Montpellier, France
Montpellier is a mid-sized city in France. Real-Earth coordinates 43.610°, 3.870°, population 327,254. 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 Montpellier last 30 days, by the Skydex receiver network
5,006 aircraft on 31 days · 27,978 sightings (one aircraft on one day) · type known for 4,969 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 Montpellier last 30 days, AIS via the Skydex feed
290 vessels on 29 days · 1,276 sightings (one vessel on one day) · type known for 211 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 Montpellier within 120 km, heard by the Skydex receiver network
- Montpellier-Méditerranée Airport (MPL) · 8 km · 399 flights in 30 days
- Nîmes-Arles-Camargue Airport (FNI) · 47 km · 32 flights in 30 days
- Béziers-Vias Airport (BZR) · 52 km · 90 flights in 30 days
- Marseille Provence Airport (MRS) · 111 km · 3,258 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 Montpellier
“Pilots” counts signed-in players; “visits” counts sessions, not unique people.
Flying conditions in Montpellier
Sunrise 07:33 · Sunset 17:23 · 9 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 Montpellier through the year
November in Montpellier averages 11.4°C with winds around 18 km/h, and roughly 73% of days are good for flying — about 9 days see rain.
Fewest weather restrictions: June, July, August; March is the most restricted at 52% usable days. (That's about wind and rain, not comfort — check the temperatures below.)
| Month | Avg temp | Wind | Rain days | Good to fly |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 7.4°C | 19 km/h | 13 | 58% |
| February | 9.6°C | 18 km/h | 12 | 61% |
| March | 11°C | 20 km/h | 12 | 52% |
| April | 15.1°C | 16 km/h | 7 | 78% |
| May | 18.5°C | 16 km/h | 7 | 84% |
| June | 25.2°C | 16 km/h | 3 | 95% |
| July | 27.3°C | 18 km/h | 4 | 90% |
| August | 26.1°C | 18 km/h | 3 | 90% |
| September | 19.6°C | 18 km/h | 9 | 73% |
| October | 16.8°C | 19 km/h | 10 | 71% |
| November | 11.4°C | 18 km/h | 9 | 73% |
| December | 8.3°C | 18 km/h | 8 | 71% |
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 Montpellier
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What you can do here
- Fly Montpellier in an FPV drone or as a gull, from 43.610°, 3.870° — 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 Montpellier.