🇮🇹 Venice, Italy
Venice is a mid-sized city in Italy. Real-Earth coordinates 45.439°, 12.335°, population 270,816. 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 Venice last 30 days, AIS via the Skydex feed
195 vessels on 30 days · 633 sightings (one vessel on one day) · type known for 139 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 Venice within 120 km, heard by the Skydex receiver network
- Venezia / Tessera - Marco Polo Airport (VCE) · 7 km · 3,481 flights in 30 days
- Treviso / Sant'Angelo Airport (TSF) · 26 km · 823 flights in 30 days
- Trieste / Ronchi Dei Legionari (TRS) · 98 km · 582 flights in 30 days
- Verona / Villafranca Airport (VRN) · 113 km · 851 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 Venice
Flying conditions in Venice
Sunrise 07:03 · Sunset 16:45 · 9 h 41 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 Venice through the year
November in Venice averages 8.1°C with winds around 12 km/h, and roughly 88% of days are good for flying — about 6 days see rain.
Fewest weather restrictions: June, November, January; September 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 | 4.3°C | 13 km/h | 9 | 84% |
| February | 6.6°C | 14 km/h | 10 | 71% |
| March | 10.1°C | 15 km/h | 11 | 68% |
| April | 14.5°C | 16 km/h | 8 | 80% |
| May | 17.6°C | 16 km/h | 12 | 68% |
| June | 24.6°C | 16 km/h | 5 | 88% |
| July | 24.9°C | 16 km/h | 13 | 71% |
| August | 25.4°C | 14 km/h | 8 | 79% |
| September | 19.7°C | 17 km/h | 12 | 63% |
| October | 14.6°C | 15 km/h | 11 | 66% |
| November | 8.1°C | 12 km/h | 6 | 88% |
| December | 5.3°C | 13 km/h | 6 | 84% |
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 Venice
- PixelOwl51 visited Wings
- CrimsonCat4 visited Wings
Where to fly a drone near Venice
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What you can do here
- Fly Venice in an FPV drone or as a gull, from 45.439°, 12.335° — 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 Venice.