🇮🇹 Bologna, Italy
Bologna is a mid-sized city in Italy. Real-Earth coordinates 44.500°, 11.340°, population 488,172. 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 Bologna last 30 days, AIS via the Skydex feed
155 vessels on 30 days · 542 sightings (one vessel on one day) · type known for 124 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 Bologna within 120 km, heard by the Skydex receiver network
- Bologna / Borgo Panigale Airport (BLQ) · 6 km · 3,055 flights in 30 days
- Forlì Airport (FRL) · 67 km · 39 flights in 30 days
- Firenze / Peretola Airport (FLR) · 77 km · 1,555 flights in 30 days
- Parma Airport (PMF) · 90 km · 60 flights in 30 days
- Verona / Villafranca Airport (VRN) · 106 km · 851 flights in 30 days
- Rimini / Miramare - Federico Fellini International Airport (RMI) · 114 km · 157 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 Bologna
“Pilots” counts signed-in players; “visits” counts sessions, not unique people.
Flying conditions in Bologna
Sunrise 07:05 · Sunset 16:51 · 9 h 46 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 Bologna through the year
November in Bologna averages 8.4°C with winds around 10 km/h, and roughly 87% of days are good for flying — about 6 days see rain.
Fewest weather restrictions: June, November, August; February is the most restricted at 63% usable days. (That's about wind and rain, not comfort — check the temperatures below.)
| Month | Avg temp | Wind | Rain days | Good to fly |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 4.1°C | 11 km/h | 8 | 81% |
| February | 7.5°C | 11 km/h | 13 | 63% |
| March | 10.2°C | 13 km/h | 11 | 74% |
| April | 14.9°C | 14 km/h | 9 | 80% |
| May | 18.9°C | 14 km/h | 11 | 73% |
| June | 26.8°C | 14 km/h | 4 | 90% |
| July | 26.4°C | 15 km/h | 7 | 83% |
| August | 26.1°C | 12 km/h | 5 | 85% |
| September | 20.7°C | 14 km/h | 9 | 82% |
| October | 15.4°C | 13 km/h | 10 | 77% |
| November | 8.4°C | 10 km/h | 6 | 87% |
| December | 5.3°C | 11 km/h | 8 | 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 Bologna
- SilentFox41 visited Wings
- CrimsonCat32 visited Wings
- QuickOwl50 visited Wings
- QuickBear42 visited Wings
Where to fly a drone near Bologna
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What you can do here
- Fly Bologna in an FPV drone or as a gull, from 44.500°, 11.340° — 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 Bologna.