🇨🇭 Zürich, Switzerland
Zürich is a major city of Switzerland. Real-Earth coordinates 47.382°, 8.548°, population 1,108,000. A river or a coast to follow, tall enough buildings to make a proximity line interesting, and open airspace once you clear the centre. 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 Zürich last 30 days, by the Skydex receiver network
8,156 aircraft on 31 days · 47,263 sightings (one aircraft on one day) · type known for 8,055 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 Zürich last 30 days, AIS via the Skydex feed
32 vessels on 10 days · 77 sightings (one vessel on one day) · type known for 14 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 Zürich within 120 km, heard by the Skydex receiver network
- Zürich Airport (ZRH) · 9 km · 12,130 flights in 30 days
- St Gallen Altenrhein Airport (ACH) · 77 km · 63 flights in 30 days
- Friedrichshafen Airport (FDH) · 79 km · 77 flights in 30 days
- EuroAirport Basel-Mulhouse-Freiburg Airport (EAP) · 80 km · 2,478 flights in 30 days
- Bern Belp Airport (BRN) · 95 km · 1 flight 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 Zürich
“Pilots” counts signed-in players; “visits” counts sessions, not unique people.
Flying conditions in Zürich
Sunrise 07:24 · Sunset 16:54 · 9 h 31 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 Zürich through the year
November in Zürich averages 4.4°C with winds around 11 km/h, and roughly 70% of days are good for flying — about 11 days see rain.
Fewest weather restrictions: April, August, December; September 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 | 0.2°C | 12 km/h | 11 | 53% |
| February | 3.2°C | 11 km/h | 12 | 71% |
| March | 5.8°C | 12 km/h | 13 | 71% |
| April | 10.9°C | 12 km/h | 9 | 78% |
| May | 14.5°C | 13 km/h | 13 | 65% |
| June | 21.4°C | 13 km/h | 12 | 67% |
| July | 20.9°C | 13 km/h | 14 | 60% |
| August | 20.2°C | 10 km/h | 9 | 76% |
| September | 14.5°C | 12 km/h | 18 | 47% |
| October | 10.4°C | 12 km/h | 12 | 65% |
| November | 4.4°C | 11 km/h | 11 | 70% |
| December | 1.5°C | 10 km/h | 8 | 76% |
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 Zürich
- CosmicFalcon5 visited Wings
- QuickBear67 visited Wings
- QuickFalcon89 visited Globe
- QuickFalcon89 visited Globe
- PixelBear79 visited Globe
- QuickFalcon39 visited Globe
Where to fly a drone near Zürich
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What you can do here
- Fly Zürich in an FPV drone or as a gull, from 47.382°, 8.548° — 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 Zürich.