🇬🇧 Cardiff, United Kingdom
Cardiff is a mid-sized city in United Kingdom. Real-Earth coordinates 51.483°, -3.168°, population 861,400. 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 Cardiff last 30 days, by the Skydex receiver network
5,892 aircraft on 31 days · 36,036 sightings (one aircraft on one day) · type known for 5,857 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 Cardiff last 30 days, AIS via the Skydex feed
174 vessels on 29 days · 599 sightings (one vessel on one day) · type known for 134 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 Cardiff within 120 km, heard by the Skydex receiver network
- Cardiff International Airport (CWL) · 15 km · 349 flights in 30 days
- Bristol International Airport (BRS) · 33 km · 3,127 flights in 30 days
- Exeter International Airport (EXT) · 85 km · 256 flights in 30 days
- RAF Brize Norton (BZZ) · 113 km · 10 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 Cardiff
Visitors came from 2 countries this month.
“Pilots” counts signed-in players; “visits” counts sessions, not unique people.
Flying conditions in Cardiff
Sunrise 07:23 · Sunset 16:29 · 9 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 Cardiff through the year
November in Cardiff averages 8.8°C with winds around 21 km/h, and roughly 55% of days are good for flying — about 16 days see rain.
Fewest weather restrictions: July, March, April; February is the most restricted at 41% usable days. (That's about wind and rain, not comfort — check the temperatures below.)
| Month | Avg temp | Wind | Rain days | Good to fly |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 4.5°C | 21 km/h | 15 | 53% |
| February | 6.8°C | 24 km/h | 19 | 41% |
| March | 8.2°C | 19 km/h | 9 | 73% |
| April | 10.9°C | 21 km/h | 10 | 68% |
| May | 14.3°C | 19 km/h | 12 | 66% |
| June | 17°C | 22 km/h | 19 | 50% |
| July | 19.4°C | 18 km/h | 9 | 81% |
| August | 17.5°C | 22 km/h | 13 | 63% |
| September | 13.9°C | 21 km/h | 18 | 45% |
| October | 11.9°C | 20 km/h | 17 | 52% |
| November | 8.8°C | 21 km/h | 16 | 55% |
| December | 7.7°C | 25 km/h | 15 | 44% |
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 Cardiff
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Where to fly a drone near Cardiff
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What you can do here
- Fly Cardiff in an FPV drone or as a gull, from 51.483°, -3.168° — 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 Cardiff.