🇫🇷 Nancy, France
Nancy is a mid-sized city in France. Real-Earth coordinates 48.684°, 6.200°, population 268,976. 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 Nancy last 30 days, by the Skydex receiver network
6,742 aircraft on 31 days · 30,781 sightings (one aircraft on one day) · type known for 6,722 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 Nancy last 30 days, AIS via the Skydex feed
19 vessels on 19 days · 27 sightings (one vessel on one day) · type known for 12 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 Nancy within 120 km, heard by the Skydex receiver network
- Metz-Nancy-Lorraine Airport (ETZ) · 33 km · 45 flights in 30 days
- Saarbrücken Airport (SCN) · 89 km · 166 flights in 30 days
- Luxembourg-Findel International Airport (LUX) · 105 km · 3,023 flights in 30 days
- Strasbourg Airport (SXB) · 106 km · 317 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 Nancy
Flying conditions in Nancy
Sunrise 07:37 · Sunset 17:00 · 9 h 23 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 Nancy through the year
November in Nancy averages 6.4°C with winds around 17 km/h, and roughly 72% of days are good for flying — about 11 days see rain.
Fewest weather restrictions: March, April, May; September is the most restricted at 55% usable days. (That's about wind and rain, not comfort — check the temperatures below.)
| Month | Avg temp | Wind | Rain days | Good to fly |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 2.5°C | 19 km/h | 13 | 63% |
| February | 4.9°C | 17 km/h | 14 | 61% |
| March | 6.9°C | 15 km/h | 5 | 85% |
| April | 11.2°C | 16 km/h | 7 | 83% |
| May | 15.4°C | 16 km/h | 8 | 82% |
| June | 21.2°C | 16 km/h | 11 | 72% |
| July | 20.9°C | 15 km/h | 10 | 71% |
| August | 20.3°C | 15 km/h | 7 | 79% |
| September | 15°C | 18 km/h | 16 | 55% |
| October | 11.6°C | 19 km/h | 14 | 73% |
| November | 6.4°C | 17 km/h | 11 | 72% |
| December | 3.9°C | 17 km/h | 8 | 77% |
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 Nancy
- BraveOwl3 visited Wings
- CrimsonOwl98 visited Globe
- CrimsonOwl98 visited Globe
Dragon Yukio visited Wings
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What you can do here
- Fly Nancy in an FPV drone or as a gull, from 48.684°, 6.200° — 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 Nancy.