🇮🇹 Catania, Italy
Catania is a mid-sized city in Italy. Real-Earth coordinates 37.500°, 15.080°, population 674,542. 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.
Heard over Catania last 30 days, by the Skydex receiver network
316 aircraft on 2 days · 352 sightings (one aircraft on one day).
Counted from what our volunteers’ antennas received — no other tracker involved. About the network · the stations · add yours
Seen on the water near Catania last 30 days, AIS via the Skydex feed
184 vessels on 30 days · 655 sightings (one vessel on one day) · type known for 138 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 Catania within 120 km, heard by the Skydex receiver network
- Catania / Fontanarossa Airport (CTA) · 4 km · 2,266 flights in 30 days
- Comiso Airport Vincenzo Magliocco (CIY) · 70 km · 83 flights in 30 days
- Reggio Calabria Airport (REG) · 81 km · 202 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 Catania
Flying conditions in Catania
Sunrise 06:34 · Sunset 16:52 · 10 h 17 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 Catania through the year
November in Catania averages 16.2°C with winds around 15 km/h, and roughly 77% of days are good for flying — about 8 days see rain.
Fewest weather restrictions: June, July, August; March is the most restricted at 61% usable days. (That's about wind and rain, not comfort — check the temperatures below.)
| Month | Avg temp | Wind | Rain days | Good to fly |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 12.4°C | 20 km/h | 11 | 66% |
| February | 12.7°C | 18 km/h | 12 | 61% |
| March | 13.5°C | 16 km/h | 15 | 61% |
| April | 15.8°C | 14 km/h | 7 | 83% |
| May | 20°C | 16 km/h | 5 | 85% |
| June | 26.3°C | 15 km/h | 2 | 98% |
| July | 29.2°C | 16 km/h | 2 | 97% |
| August | 28.3°C | 16 km/h | 2 | 95% |
| September | 24.8°C | 17 km/h | 5 | 88% |
| October | 20.6°C | 15 km/h | 7 | 79% |
| November | 16.2°C | 15 km/h | 8 | 77% |
| December | 12.6°C | 14 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 Catania
Where to fly a drone near Catania
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What you can do here
- Fly Catania in an FPV drone or as a gull, from 37.500°, 15.080° — 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 Catania.