🇪🇸 Vigo, Spain
Vigo is a mid-sized city in Spain. Real-Earth coordinates 42.220°, -8.730°, population 378,952. 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 Vigo last 30 days, by the Skydex receiver network
3,373 aircraft on 31 days · 12,739 sightings (one aircraft on one day) · type known for 3,369 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 Vigo last 30 days, AIS via the Skydex feed
233 vessels on 30 days · 1,108 sightings (one vessel on one day) · type known for 138 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 Vigo within 120 km, heard by the Skydex receiver network
- Vigo Airport (VGO) · 9 km · 217 flights in 30 days
- Santiago de Compostela Airport (SCQ) · 80 km · 668 flights in 30 days
- Francisco de Sá Carneiro Airport (OPO) · 108 km · 3,899 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 Vigo
“Pilots” counts signed-in players; “visits” counts sessions, not unique people.
Flying conditions in Vigo
Sunrise 08:20 · Sunset 18:17 · 9 h 57 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 Vigo through the year
November in Vigo averages 12.7°C with winds around 15 km/h, and roughly 57% of days are good for flying — about 15 days see rain.
Fewest weather restrictions: August, July, June; January is the most restricted at 34% usable days. (That's about wind and rain, not comfort — check the temperatures below.)
| Month | Avg temp | Wind | Rain days | Good to fly |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 9.2°C | 20 km/h | 21 | 34% |
| February | 10.3°C | 18 km/h | 20 | 36% |
| March | 11°C | 16 km/h | 10 | 73% |
| April | 14.1°C | 15 km/h | 13 | 63% |
| May | 15.8°C | 13 km/h | 12 | 68% |
| June | 20.2°C | 14 km/h | 8 | 80% |
| July | 22.1°C | 15 km/h | 4 | 89% |
| August | 21.9°C | 16 km/h | 3 | 92% |
| September | 17.1°C | 15 km/h | 12 | 67% |
| October | 16.1°C | 15 km/h | 15 | 52% |
| November | 12.7°C | 15 km/h | 15 | 57% |
| December | 8.8°C | 13 km/h | 13 | 60% |
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 Vigo
nasi tosa visited Wings
- CosmicWolf77 visited Wings
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- CosmicBear71 visited Wings
- CrimsonFalcon60 visited Globe
- CosmicFalcon35 visited Wings
Where to fly a drone near Vigo
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What you can do here
- Fly Vigo in an FPV drone or as a gull, from 42.220°, -8.730° — 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 Vigo.