🇸🇪 Malmö, Sweden
Malmö is a mid-sized city in Sweden. Real-Earth coordinates 55.599°, 13.023°, population 269,349. 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 Malmö last 30 days, by the Skydex receiver network
3,982 aircraft on 31 days · 17,587 sightings (one aircraft on one day) · type known for 3,961 of them.
Counted from what our volunteers’ antennas received — no other tracker involved. About the network · the stations · add yours
On the water near Malmö live AIS, via the Skydex feed
16 vessels within 60 km right now, plus 14 private craft shown anonymously.
- 🇳🇱 DC OSTEND · Other · 99 m · 7 kn · 23 km
- 🇩🇰 MMSI 219004907 · Cargo · 18 m · 26 km
- 🇵🇹 HIIUMAA · Cargo · 99 m · 0 kn · 26 km
- 🇩🇰 JETTE SAJ · Other · 32 m · 0 kn · 27 km
- 🇩🇰 CAT 1 · Other · 28 km
- 🇸🇪 PRINSESSAN ESTELLE · Passenger · 18 m · 28 km
- 🇩🇰 REFSHALEOEN · Passenger · 24 m · 28 km
- 🇩🇰 NYHAVN · Passenger · 24 m · 0 kn · 28 km
As of 03:05 UTC · updates live · ship tracking · see them in 3D over Malmö →
Seen on the water near Malmö last 30 days, AIS via the Skydex feed
1,374 vessels on 31 days · 5,223 sightings (one vessel on one day) · type known for 1,180 of them.
📡 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 Malmö within 120 km, heard by the Skydex receiver network
- Copenhagen Kastrup Airport (CPH) · 23 km · 13,474 flights in 30 days
- Malmö Sturup Airport (MMX) · 23 km · 509 flights in 30 days
- Ängelholm-Helsingborg Airport (AGH) · 78 km · 147 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 Malmö
Flying conditions in Malmö
Sunrise 07:34 · Sunset 16:08 · 8 h 35 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 Malmö through the year
November in Malmö averages 6.8°C with winds around 24 km/h, and roughly 60% of days are good for flying — about 9 days see rain.
Fewest weather restrictions: April, May, March; October is the most restricted at 47% usable days. (That's about wind and rain, not comfort — check the temperatures below.)
| Month | Avg temp | Wind | Rain days | Good to fly |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 1.4°C | 28 km/h | 10 | 53% |
| February | 0.6°C | 23 km/h | 8 | 63% |
| March | 5.1°C | 22 km/h | 6 | 71% |
| April | 8.2°C | 21 km/h | 5 | 90% |
| May | 12.3°C | 22 km/h | 9 | 77% |
| June | 16.8°C | 23 km/h | 12 | 62% |
| July | 18.5°C | 22 km/h | 14 | 60% |
| August | 18.2°C | 22 km/h | 8 | 71% |
| September | 16°C | 23 km/h | 10 | 62% |
| October | 11.1°C | 27 km/h | 12 | 47% |
| November | 6.8°C | 24 km/h | 9 | 60% |
| December | 5.3°C | 26 km/h | 12 | 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 Malmö
Where to fly a drone near Malmö
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What you can do here
- Fly Malmö in an FPV drone or as a gull, from 55.599°, 13.023° — 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 Malmö.