🇹🇷 Ankara, Turkey
Ankara is the capital of Turkey. Real-Earth coordinates 39.929°, 32.862°, population 3,716,000. The busiest sky in the country — monuments to circle, other pilots in the air and the city's own tower frequency on the radio. 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 Ankara last 30 days, by the Skydex receiver network
1,355 aircraft on 18 days · 3,416 sightings (one aircraft on one day) · type known for 1,342 of them.
Counted from what our volunteers’ antennas received — no other tracker involved. About the network · the stations · add yours
Airports near Ankara within 120 km, heard by the Skydex receiver network
- Esenboğa International Airport (ESB) · 25 km · 1,092 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 Ankara
“Pilots” counts signed-in players; “visits” counts sessions, not unique people.
Flying conditions in Ankara
Sunrise 07:28 · Sunset 17:35 · 10 h 07 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 Ankara through the year
November in Ankara averages 7.9°C with winds around 9 km/h, and roughly 83% of days are good for flying — about 6 days see rain.
Fewest weather restrictions: August, July, September; April is the most restricted at 60% usable days. (That's about wind and rain, not comfort — check the temperatures below.)
| Month | Avg temp | Wind | Rain days | Good to fly |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 2.6°C | 10 km/h | 10 | 71% |
| February | 2.9°C | 13 km/h | 11 | 61% |
| March | 8.5°C | 12 km/h | 6 | 89% |
| April | 10.1°C | 13 km/h | 15 | 60% |
| May | 15.4°C | 14 km/h | 14 | 68% |
| June | 21.9°C | 13 km/h | 5 | 88% |
| July | 26°C | 15 km/h | 2 | 95% |
| August | 25.7°C | 16 km/h | 2 | 97% |
| September | 20.2°C | 13 km/h | 4 | 92% |
| October | 13°C | 12 km/h | 6 | 89% |
| November | 7.9°C | 9 km/h | 6 | 83% |
| December | 3.5°C | 9 km/h | 12 | 73% |
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 Ankara
- BraveWolf16 visited Wings
Eymen Aydın visited Wings
- SilentFox53 visited Wings
- QuickFox24 visited Globe
- QuickFox24 visited Globe
- SilentFalcon76 visited Wings
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What you can do here
- Fly Ankara in an FPV drone or as a gull, from 39.929°, 32.862° — 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 Ankara.