🇩🇪 Hamburg, Germany
Hamburg is a major city of Germany. Real-Earth coordinates 53.552°, 9.998°, population 1,757,000. A river or a coast to follow, tall enough buildings to make a proximity line interesting, and open airspace once you clear the centre. 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.
▶ Watch a flight: Flying along the Elbe in Hamburg · All flight videos
Heard over Hamburg last 30 days, by the Skydex receiver network
5,109 aircraft on 31 days · 21,096 sightings (one aircraft on one day) · type known for 5,052 of them.
Counted from what our volunteers’ antennas received — no other tracker involved. About the network · the stations · add yours
On the water near Hamburg live AIS, via the Skydex feed
200 vessels within 60 km right now, plus 19 private craft shown anonymously.
- 🇩🇪 ALSTERSCHWAN · Passenger · 26 m · 0 kn · 0 km
- 🇩🇪 HANSA II · Other · 16 m · 0 kn · 1 km
- 🇩🇪 ALSTER · Other · 15 m · 0 kn · 1 km
- 🇩🇪 KONSUL · Passenger · 21 m · 0 kn · 1 km
- 🇩🇪 HANSA III · Passenger · 20 m · 0 kn · → HAMBURG · 1 km
- 🇩🇪 GEBR. WRIEDE I · Passenger · 18 m · 0 kn · 1 km
- 🇳🇱 MARE FRISIUM · Other · 50 m · 0 kn · 1 km
- 🇩🇪 HAFENPERLE · Passenger · 21 m · → HAMBURG · 1 km
As of 00:44 UTC · updates live · ship tracking · see them in 3D over Hamburg →
Seen on the water near Hamburg last 30 days, AIS via the Skydex feed
2,357 vessels on 31 days · 19,297 sightings (one vessel on one day) · type known for 1,666 of them.
📡 1,534 of them were 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 Hamburg within 120 km, heard by the Skydex receiver network
- Hamburg Airport (HAM) · 9 km · 4,923 flights in 30 days
- Hamburg-Finkenwerder Airport (XFW) · 11 km · 125 flights in 30 days
- Lübeck Blankensee Airport (LBC) · 55 km · 12 flights in 30 days
- Bremen Airport (BRE) · 98 km · 675 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 Hamburg
Visitors came from 40 countries this month.
“Pilots” counts signed-in players; “visits” counts sessions, not unique people.
Flying conditions in Hamburg
Sunrise 07:38 · Sunset 16:29 · 8 h 51 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 00:41 UTC and refreshed live in your browser. Weather by Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0).
Flying weather in Hamburg through the year
November in Hamburg averages 6.2°C with winds around 16 km/h, and roughly 70% of days are good for flying — about 12 days see rain.
Fewest weather restrictions: March, April, December; January 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 | 0.6°C | 19 km/h | 13 | 52% |
| February | 1.5°C | 16 km/h | 10 | 57% |
| March | 6.8°C | 15 km/h | 6 | 85% |
| April | 10.1°C | 16 km/h | 9 | 83% |
| May | 14.1°C | 17 km/h | 11 | 71% |
| June | 18.3°C | 18 km/h | 16 | 53% |
| July | 18.5°C | 17 km/h | 17 | 54% |
| August | 18.7°C | 17 km/h | 9 | 74% |
| September | 15.8°C | 18 km/h | 10 | 73% |
| October | 10.9°C | 19 km/h | 10 | 71% |
| November | 6.2°C | 16 km/h | 12 | 70% |
| December | 4.8°C | 18 km/h | 9 | 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 Hamburg
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What you can do here
- Fly Hamburg in an FPV drone or as a gull, from 53.552°, 9.998° — 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 Hamburg.