🇱🇻 Riga, Latvia
Riga is the capital of Latvia. Real-Earth coordinates 56.950°, 24.100°, population 742,572. 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 Riga last 30 days, by the Skydex receiver network
23 aircraft on 18 days · 24 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 Riga last 30 days, AIS via the Skydex feed
2 vessels on 4 days · 4 sightings (one vessel on one day).
📡 1 of them was heard by a Skydex volunteer receiver rather than by the upstream feed. Run one here
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 Riga within 120 km, heard by the Skydex receiver network
- Riga International Airport (RIX) · 8 km · 2,068 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 Riga
“Pilots” counts signed-in players; “visits” counts sessions, not unique people.
Flying conditions in Riga
Sunrise 07:55 · Sunset 16:18 · 8 h 23 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 Riga through the year
November in Riga averages 4.1°C with winds around 18 km/h, and roughly 78% of days are good for flying — about 11 days see rain.
Fewest weather restrictions: March, November, April; January is the most restricted at 23% usable days. (That's about wind and rain, not comfort — check the temperatures below.)
| Month | Avg temp | Wind | Rain days | Good to fly |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | -3.5°C | 18 km/h | 12 | 23% |
| February | -5.3°C | 15 km/h | 9 | 27% |
| March | 4.7°C | 16 km/h | 7 | 85% |
| April | 6.8°C | 19 km/h | 11 | 77% |
| May | 11.4°C | 17 km/h | 13 | 63% |
| June | 16.9°C | 18 km/h | 17 | 52% |
| July | 19°C | 16 km/h | 22 | 43% |
| August | 17.5°C | 16 km/h | 15 | 55% |
| September | 16.1°C | 16 km/h | 10 | 72% |
| October | 8.3°C | 17 km/h | 12 | 68% |
| November | 4.1°C | 18 km/h | 11 | 78% |
| December | 2.3°C | 19 km/h | 15 | 63% |
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 Riga
- QuickWolf41 visited Globe
Gamer one visited Globe
- CosmicFox93 visited Globe
- CosmicCat92 visited Globe
- CosmicFox23 visited Globe
Aleksis Vargers visited Wings
Where to fly a drone near Riga
🛩 Where to fly a drone in Latvia →
What you can do here
- Fly Riga in an FPV drone or as a gull, from 56.950°, 24.100° — 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 Riga.