🇮🇪 Dublin, Ireland
Dublin is the capital of Ireland. Real-Earth coordinates 53.347°, -6.257°, population 1,059,000. The busiest sky in the country — monuments to circle, other pilots in the air and the city's own tower frequency on the radio. 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 Dublin last 30 days, by the Skydex receiver network
4,335 aircraft on 31 days · 20,090 sightings (one aircraft on one day) · type known for 4,325 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 Dublin last 30 days, AIS via the Skydex feed
146 vessels on 30 days · 594 sightings (one vessel on one day) · type known for 131 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 Dublin within 120 km, heard by the Skydex receiver network
- Dublin Airport (DUB) · 8 km · 12,353 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 Dublin
Visitors came from 3 countries this month.
“Pilots” counts signed-in players; “visits” counts sessions, not unique people.
Flying conditions in Dublin
Sunrise 07:42 · Sunset 16:34 · 8 h 52 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 Dublin through the year
November in Dublin averages 9.2°C with winds around 24 km/h, and roughly 60% of days are good for flying — about 15 days see rain.
Fewest weather restrictions: July, May, March; February is the most restricted at 38% usable days. (That's about wind and rain, not comfort — check the temperatures below.)
| Month | Avg temp | Wind | Rain days | Good to fly |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 5.6°C | 26 km/h | 16 | 47% |
| February | 7.4°C | 28 km/h | 18 | 38% |
| March | 8.5°C | 22 km/h | 11 | 68% |
| April | 10.2°C | 22 km/h | 13 | 53% |
| May | 13.2°C | 19 km/h | 12 | 71% |
| June | 15.8°C | 22 km/h | 20 | 52% |
| July | 17.5°C | 19 km/h | 10 | 81% |
| August | 16.7°C | 23 km/h | 15 | 60% |
| September | 13.5°C | 24 km/h | 16 | 50% |
| October | 11.9°C | 26 km/h | 14 | 50% |
| November | 9.2°C | 24 km/h | 15 | 60% |
| December | 8.3°C | 27 km/h | 12 | 56% |
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 Dublin
Where to fly a drone near Dublin
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What you can do here
- Fly Dublin in an FPV drone or as a gull, from 53.347°, -6.257° — 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 Dublin.