🇪🇸 Bilbao, Spain
Bilbao is a mid-sized city in Spain. Real-Earth coordinates 43.250°, -2.930°, population 875,552. 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 Bilbao last 30 days, by the Skydex receiver network
4,553 aircraft on 31 days · 22,734 sightings (one aircraft on one day) · type known for 4,545 of them.
Counted from what our volunteers’ antennas received — no other tracker involved. About the network · the stations · add yours
Seen on the water near Bilbao last 30 days, AIS via the Skydex feed
54 vessels on 17 days · 68 sightings (one vessel on one day) · type known for 31 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 Bilbao within 120 km, heard by the Skydex receiver network
- Bilbao Airport (BIO) · 6 km · 1,632 flights in 30 days
- Vitoria/Foronda Airport (VIT) · 44 km · 402 flights in 30 days
- Santander Airport (SDR) · 75 km · 351 flights in 30 days
- San Sebastian Airport (EAS) · 93 km · 69 flights in 30 days
- Logroño-Agoncillo Airport (RJL) · 101 km · 42 flights in 30 days
- Biarritz-Anglet-Bayonne Airport (BIQ) · 116 km · 235 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 Bilbao
“Pilots” counts signed-in players; “visits” counts sessions, not unique people.
Flying conditions in Bilbao
Sunrise 07:59 · Sunset 17:51 · 9 h 52 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 Bilbao through the year
November in Bilbao averages 12.2°C with winds around 17 km/h, and roughly 62% of days are good for flying — about 13 days see rain.
Fewest weather restrictions: July, June, August; January is the most restricted at 42% usable days. (That's about wind and rain, not comfort — check the temperatures below.)
| Month | Avg temp | Wind | Rain days | Good to fly |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 8.4°C | 21 km/h | 18 | 42% |
| February | 10.3°C | 17 km/h | 14 | 59% |
| March | 10.4°C | 17 km/h | 15 | 52% |
| April | 13.9°C | 15 km/h | 12 | 67% |
| May | 15.8°C | 14 km/h | 15 | 56% |
| June | 20.8°C | 14 km/h | 7 | 82% |
| July | 21.4°C | 14 km/h | 8 | 86% |
| August | 20.9°C | 14 km/h | 8 | 82% |
| September | 16.9°C | 15 km/h | 14 | 60% |
| October | 15.7°C | 15 km/h | 13 | 65% |
| November | 12.2°C | 17 km/h | 13 | 62% |
| December | 9.1°C | 15 km/h | 15 | 55% |
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 Bilbao
- CrimsonCat37 visited Wings
- CrimsonCat37 visited Globe
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What you can do here
- Fly Bilbao in an FPV drone or as a gull, from 43.250°, -2.930° — 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 Bilbao.