🇫🇷 Nantes, France
Nantes is a mid-sized city in France. Real-Earth coordinates 47.210°, -1.590°, population 438,537. 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 Nantes last 30 days, by the Skydex receiver network
3,796 aircraft on 27 days · 12,752 sightings (one aircraft on one day) · type known for 3,790 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 Nantes last 30 days, AIS via the Skydex feed
61 vessels on 29 days · 181 sightings (one vessel on one day) · type known for 44 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 Nantes within 120 km, heard by the Skydex receiver network
- Nantes Atlantique Airport (NTE) · 7 km · 1,677 flights in 30 days
- Saint-Nazaire-Montoir Airport (SNR) · 44 km · 48 flights in 30 days
- Rennes-Saint-Jacques Airport (RNS) · 96 km · 168 flights in 30 days
- La Rochelle-Île de Ré Airport (LRH) · 119 km · 94 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 Nantes
“Pilots” counts signed-in players; “visits” counts sessions, not unique people.
Flying conditions in Nantes
Sunrise 08:04 · Sunset 17:35 · 9 h 32 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 Nantes through the year
November in Nantes averages 10.5°C with winds around 20 km/h, and roughly 68% of days are good for flying — about 11 days see rain.
Fewest weather restrictions: March, June, July; January is the most restricted at 40% usable days. (That's about wind and rain, not comfort — check the temperatures below.)
| Month | Avg temp | Wind | Rain days | Good to fly |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 6.2°C | 23 km/h | 18 | 40% |
| February | 8.4°C | 20 km/h | 16 | 52% |
| March | 9.8°C | 17 km/h | 9 | 82% |
| April | 13.9°C | 18 km/h | 7 | 80% |
| May | 16.7°C | 16 km/h | 11 | 69% |
| June | 21.3°C | 17 km/h | 8 | 82% |
| July | 22.5°C | 17 km/h | 6 | 81% |
| August | 20.6°C | 17 km/h | 8 | 79% |
| September | 15.9°C | 19 km/h | 14 | 62% |
| October | 13.9°C | 19 km/h | 12 | 65% |
| November | 10.5°C | 20 km/h | 11 | 68% |
| December | 7.6°C | 19 km/h | 11 | 69% |
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 Nantes
- CrimsonWolf19 visited Wings
- SilentCat24 visited Wings
- SilentCat24 visited Globe
- BraveWolf56 visited Wings
- SilentWolf48 visited Wings
- QuickCat62 visited Wings
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What you can do here
- Fly Nantes in an FPV drone or as a gull, from 47.210°, -1.590° — 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 Nantes.