🇮🇹 Palermo, Italy
Palermo is a mid-sized city in Italy. Real-Earth coordinates 38.127°, 13.348°, population 863,000. 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 Palermo last 30 days, by the Skydex receiver network
190 aircraft on 3 days · 209 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 Palermo last 30 days, AIS via the Skydex feed
1 vessel on 1 day.
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 Palermo within 120 km, heard by the Skydex receiver network
- Palermo / Punta Raisi Airport (PMO) · 23 km · 1,768 flights in 30 days
- Trapani / Birgi Airport (TPS) · 79 km · 312 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 Palermo
Flying conditions in Palermo
Sunrise 06:43 · Sunset 16:57 · 10 h 15 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 Palermo through the year
November in Palermo averages 16.5°C with winds around 13 km/h, and roughly 73% of days are good for flying — about 12 days see rain.
Fewest weather restrictions: June, July, August; February is the most restricted at 46% usable days. (That's about wind and rain, not comfort — check the temperatures below.)
| Month | Avg temp | Wind | Rain days | Good to fly |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 12.9°C | 18 km/h | 15 | 56% |
| February | 13°C | 17 km/h | 15 | 46% |
| March | 13.9°C | 15 km/h | 14 | 61% |
| April | 16.4°C | 12 km/h | 6 | 78% |
| May | 20.1°C | 13 km/h | 7 | 82% |
| June | 26°C | 10 km/h | 3 | 95% |
| July | 29°C | 13 km/h | 3 | 94% |
| August | 27.6°C | 13 km/h | 5 | 87% |
| September | 24.5°C | 13 km/h | 11 | 77% |
| October | 20.8°C | 13 km/h | 10 | 74% |
| November | 16.5°C | 13 km/h | 12 | 73% |
| December | 13.4°C | 14 km/h | 11 | 68% |
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 Palermo
Where to fly a drone near Palermo
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What you can do here
- Fly Palermo in an FPV drone or as a gull, from 38.127°, 13.348° — 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 Palermo.