🇺🇦 Zhytomyr, Ukraine
Zhytomyr is a mid-sized city in Ukraine. Real-Earth coordinates 50.246°, 28.662°, population 282,192. 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 Zhytomyr last 30 days, by the Skydex receiver network
2 aircraft on 1 day.
Counted from what our volunteers’ antennas received — no other tracker involved. About the network · the stations · add yours
Seen on the water near Zhytomyr last 30 days, AIS via the Skydex feed
1 vessel on 1 day.
📡 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
Activity in Zhytomyr
Flying conditions in Zhytomyr
Sunrise 07:12 · Sunset 16:25 · 9 h 14 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 Zhytomyr through the year
November in Zhytomyr averages 3.9°C with winds around 16 km/h, and roughly 73% of days are good for flying — about 11 days see rain.
Fewest weather restrictions: March, August, September; February is the most restricted at 25% usable days. (That's about wind and rain, not comfort — check the temperatures below.)
| Month | Avg temp | Wind | Rain days | Good to fly |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | -3.5°C | 17 km/h | 6 | 45% |
| February | -5°C | 15 km/h | 7 | 25% |
| March | 5.8°C | 17 km/h | 5 | 85% |
| April | 8.2°C | 19 km/h | 12 | 68% |
| May | 13.4°C | 17 km/h | 15 | 58% |
| June | 18.8°C | 18 km/h | 12 | 73% |
| July | 20.1°C | 17 km/h | 12 | 67% |
| August | 20.1°C | 14 km/h | 5 | 85% |
| September | 17.5°C | 17 km/h | 6 | 80% |
| October | 8.9°C | 18 km/h | 11 | 71% |
| November | 3.9°C | 16 km/h | 11 | 73% |
| December | 0.4°C | 17 km/h | 9 | 66% |
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 Zhytomyr
- CrimsonOwl20 visited Wings
- QuickOwl95 visited Wings
Vadim Zaits visited Wings
ESSO visited Wings
Where to fly a drone near Zhytomyr
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What you can do here
- Fly Zhytomyr in an FPV drone or as a gull, from 50.246°, 28.662° — 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 Zhytomyr.