🇫🇷 Strasbourg, France
Strasbourg is a mid-sized city in France. Real-Earth coordinates 48.580°, 7.750°, population 439,972. 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 Strasbourg last 30 days, AIS via the Skydex feed
114 vessels on 25 days · 222 sightings (one vessel on one day) · type known for 60 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 Strasbourg within 120 km, heard by the Skydex receiver network
- Strasbourg Airport (SXB) · 10 km · 317 flights in 30 days
- Karlsruhe Baden-Baden Airport (FKB) · 33 km · 657 flights in 30 days
- Saarbrücken Airport (SCN) · 85 km · 166 flights in 30 days
- Ramstein Air Base (RMS) · 96 km · 24 flights in 30 days
- Stuttgart Airport (STR) · 109 km · 2,784 flights in 30 days
- EuroAirport Basel-Mulhouse-Freiburg Airport (EAP) · 111 km · 2,478 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 Strasbourg
Flying conditions in Strasbourg
Sunrise 07:30 · Sunset 16:54 · 9 h 24 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 Strasbourg through the year
November in Strasbourg averages 5.9°C with winds around 14 km/h, and roughly 67% of days are good for flying — about 14 days see rain.
Fewest weather restrictions: April, June, March; September 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 | 2.1°C | 15 km/h | 12 | 56% |
| February | 4.7°C | 14 km/h | 13 | 63% |
| March | 7.2°C | 13 km/h | 8 | 79% |
| April | 12°C | 15 km/h | 7 | 82% |
| May | 16.3°C | 15 km/h | 9 | 77% |
| June | 22.2°C | 15 km/h | 11 | 80% |
| July | 21.6°C | 14 km/h | 10 | 73% |
| August | 20.7°C | 13 km/h | 9 | 76% |
| September | 15.8°C | 16 km/h | 17 | 52% |
| October | 11.9°C | 17 km/h | 13 | 69% |
| November | 5.9°C | 14 km/h | 14 | 67% |
| December | 3.2°C | 14 km/h | 6 | 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 Strasbourg
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Where to fly a drone near Strasbourg
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What you can do here
- Fly Strasbourg in an FPV drone or as a gull, from 48.580°, 7.750° — 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 Strasbourg.