🇹🇷 Bursa, Turkey
Bursa is a major city of Turkey. Real-Earth coordinates 40.202°, 29.068°, population 1,492,000. 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.
Seen on the water near Bursa last 30 days, AIS via the Skydex feed
43 vessels on 9 days · 50 sightings (one vessel on one day) · type known for 19 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 Bursa within 120 km, heard by the Skydex receiver network
- Bursa Yenişehir Airport (YEI) · 42 km · 18 flights in 30 days
- Sabiha Gökçen International Airport (SAW) · 80 km · 4,164 flights in 30 days
- Atatürk International Airport (ISL) · 89 km · 324 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 Bursa
Flying conditions in Bursa
Sunrise 07:44 · Sunset 17:50 · 10 h 06 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 Bursa through the year
November in Bursa averages 11.6°C with winds around 9 km/h, and roughly 80% of days are good for flying — about 8 days see rain.
Fewest weather restrictions: August, July, June; February is the most restricted at 45% usable days. (That's about wind and rain, not comfort — check the temperatures below.)
| Month | Avg temp | Wind | Rain days | Good to fly |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 7.2°C | 10 km/h | 15 | 61% |
| February | 5.8°C | 10 km/h | 16 | 45% |
| March | 9.6°C | 11 km/h | 11 | 73% |
| April | 11.5°C | 11 km/h | 11 | 67% |
| May | 17.3°C | 12 km/h | 14 | 74% |
| June | 24.1°C | 16 km/h | 2 | 93% |
| July | 26.8°C | 15 km/h | 4 | 94% |
| August | 25.8°C | 16 km/h | 4 | 97% |
| September | 21.6°C | 13 km/h | 10 | 82% |
| October | 15.4°C | 11 km/h | 9 | 69% |
| November | 11.6°C | 9 km/h | 8 | 80% |
| December | 7.6°C | 8 km/h | 15 | 58% |
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 Bursa
Where to fly a drone near Bursa
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What you can do here
- Fly Bursa in an FPV drone or as a gull, from 40.202°, 29.068° — 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 Bursa.