🇫🇷 Rouen, France
Rouen is a mid-sized city in France. Real-Earth coordinates 49.430°, 1.080°, population 532,559. 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.
Seen on the water near Rouen last 30 days, AIS via the Skydex feed
829 vessels on 30 days · 4,540 sightings (one vessel on one day) · type known for 528 of them.
📡 1 of them was heard by a Skydex volunteer receiver rather than by the upstream feed. Run one here
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 Rouen within 120 km, heard by the Skydex receiver network
- Deauville-Saint-Gatien Airport (DOL) · 67 km · 10 flights in 30 days
- Paris Beauvais Tillé Airport (BVA) · 75 km · 1,631 flights in 30 days
- Paris-Le Bourget Airport (LBG) · 111 km · 4 flights in 30 days
- Caen-Carpiquet Airport (CFR) · 115 km · 88 flights in 30 days
- Charles de Gaulle International Airport (CDG) · 116 km · 18,942 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 Rouen
Flying conditions in Rouen
Sunrise 08:00 · Sunset 17:18 · 9 h 19 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 Rouen through the year
November in Rouen averages 8.6°C with winds around 17 km/h, and roughly 68% of days are good for flying — about 11 days see rain.
Fewest weather restrictions: March, April, August; January is the most restricted at 48% usable days. (That's about wind and rain, not comfort — check the temperatures below.)
| Month | Avg temp | Wind | Rain days | Good to fly |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 4.2°C | 19 km/h | 16 | 48% |
| February | 6.3°C | 18 km/h | 16 | 55% |
| March | 8.4°C | 16 km/h | 6 | 87% |
| April | 12.4°C | 17 km/h | 6 | 87% |
| May | 15.1°C | 17 km/h | 11 | 71% |
| June | 19.2°C | 17 km/h | 13 | 68% |
| July | 20.2°C | 16 km/h | 10 | 79% |
| August | 19°C | 16 km/h | 9 | 81% |
| September | 15°C | 19 km/h | 13 | 65% |
| October | 12.4°C | 18 km/h | 13 | 63% |
| November | 8.6°C | 17 km/h | 11 | 68% |
| December | 6.3°C | 18 km/h | 10 | 76% |
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 Rouen
- SilentCat62 visited Globe
- QuickOwl12 visited Globe
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What you can do here
- Fly Rouen in an FPV drone or as a gull, from 49.430°, 1.080° — 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 Rouen.