🇺🇦 Mykolaiv, Ukraine
Mykolaiv is a mid-sized city in Ukraine. Real-Earth coordinates 46.975°, 31.997°, population 480,000. 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 Mykolaiv last 30 days, by the Skydex receiver network
2 aircraft on 2 days.
Counted from what our volunteers’ antennas received — no other tracker involved. About the network · the stations · add yours
Airports near Mykolaiv within 120 km, heard by the Skydex receiver network
- Odessa International Airport (ODS) · 118 km · 6 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 Mykolaiv
Flying conditions in Mykolaiv
Sunrise 06:49 · Sunset 16:22 · 9 h 33 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 Mykolaiv through the year
November in Mykolaiv averages 7.4°C with winds around 17 km/h, and roughly 83% of days are good for flying — about 7 days see rain.
Fewest weather restrictions: March, August, June; February 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 | 1.2°C | 18 km/h | 7 | 61% |
| February | -1.7°C | 17 km/h | 6 | 34% |
| March | 7.8°C | 16 km/h | 4 | 94% |
| April | 10.4°C | 17 km/h | 8 | 82% |
| May | 15.9°C | 17 km/h | 14 | 69% |
| June | 22.3°C | 18 km/h | 8 | 85% |
| July | 25.3°C | 18 km/h | 5 | 84% |
| August | 24.9°C | 18 km/h | 4 | 90% |
| September | 19.7°C | 19 km/h | 7 | 77% |
| October | 12.2°C | 18 km/h | 7 | 81% |
| November | 7.4°C | 17 km/h | 7 | 83% |
| December | 3°C | 17 km/h | 7 | 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 Mykolaiv
- CosmicBear60 visited Globe
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What you can do here
- Fly Mykolaiv in an FPV drone or as a gull, from 46.975°, 31.997° — 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 Mykolaiv.