🇪🇸 Valencia, Spain
Valencia is a mid-sized city in Spain. Real-Earth coordinates 39.487°, -0.402°, population 808,000. 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 Valencia last 30 days, by the Skydex receiver network
3,021 aircraft on 16 days · 8,103 sightings (one aircraft on one day) · type known for 3,013 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 Valencia last 30 days, AIS via the Skydex feed
565 vessels on 31 days · 2,415 sightings (one vessel on one day) · type known for 450 of them.
📡 238 of them were 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 Valencia within 120 km, heard by the Skydex receiver network
- Valencia Airport (VLC) · 7 km · 2,419 flights in 30 days
- Castellon Aerodrome (LECN) · 68 km · 14 flights in 30 days
- Castellón-Costa Azahar Airport (CDT) · 90 km · 112 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 Valencia
Flying conditions in Valencia
Sunrise 07:40 · Sunset 17:49 · 10 h 09 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 Valencia through the year
November in Valencia averages 15.4°C with winds around 16 km/h, and roughly 83% of days are good for flying — about 5 days see rain.
Fewest weather restrictions: August, June, July; October is the most restricted at 65% 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°C | 19 km/h | 7 | 74% |
| February | 13.5°C | 18 km/h | 5 | 79% |
| March | 13.2°C | 18 km/h | 11 | 66% |
| April | 17°C | 16 km/h | 4 | 93% |
| May | 20.4°C | 15 km/h | 5 | 85% |
| June | 25.6°C | 15 km/h | 1 | 97% |
| July | 27.9°C | 16 km/h | 2 | 95% |
| August | 27.6°C | 17 km/h | 0 | 100% |
| September | 23.5°C | 18 km/h | 6 | 87% |
| October | 19.9°C | 18 km/h | 10 | 65% |
| November | 15.4°C | 16 km/h | 5 | 83% |
| December | 12°C | 15 km/h | 8 | 77% |
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 Valencia
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What you can do here
- Fly Valencia in an FPV drone or as a gull, from 39.487°, -0.402° — 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 Valencia.