🇬🇧 Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Edinburgh is a mid-sized city in United Kingdom. Real-Earth coordinates 55.948°, -3.219°, population 504,966. 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 Edinburgh last 30 days, by the Skydex receiver network
4,067 aircraft on 31 days · 14,725 sightings (one aircraft on one day) · type known for 4,056 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 Edinburgh last 30 days, AIS via the Skydex feed
164 vessels on 30 days · 788 sightings (one vessel on one day) · type known for 115 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 Edinburgh within 120 km, heard by the Skydex receiver network
- Edinburgh Airport (EDI) · 10 km · 5,483 flights in 30 days
- Dundee Airport (DND) · 57 km · 19 flights in 30 days
- Glasgow International Airport (GLA) · 76 km · 2,804 flights in 30 days
- Glasgow Prestwick Airport (PIK) · 99 km · 318 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 Edinburgh
“Pilots” counts signed-in players; “visits” counts sessions, not unique people.
Flying conditions in Edinburgh
Sunrise 07:40 · Sunset 16:12 · 8 h 32 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 Edinburgh through the year
November in Edinburgh averages 7°C with winds around 23 km/h, and roughly 57% of days are good for flying — about 12 days see rain.
Fewest weather restrictions: April, May, July; December is the most restricted at 42% usable days. (That's about wind and rain, not comfort — check the temperatures below.)
| Month | Avg temp | Wind | Rain days | Good to fly |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 3.3°C | 24 km/h | 12 | 58% |
| February | 5.1°C | 25 km/h | 16 | 57% |
| March | 7.1°C | 26 km/h | 11 | 48% |
| April | 8.7°C | 21 km/h | 9 | 77% |
| May | 11.7°C | 21 km/h | 12 | 76% |
| June | 14.6°C | 24 km/h | 17 | 42% |
| July | 16.1°C | 20 km/h | 10 | 71% |
| August | 15.7°C | 25 km/h | 14 | 53% |
| September | 12.2°C | 21 km/h | 14 | 65% |
| October | 10.4°C | 25 km/h | 15 | 48% |
| November | 7°C | 23 km/h | 12 | 57% |
| December | 6.6°C | 28 km/h | 13 | 42% |
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 Edinburgh
- CosmicWolf71 visited Wings
- CrimsonFalcon71 visited Wings
- QuickFox78 visited Wings
- SilentBear94 visited Wings
- BraveWolf0 visited Wings
- CrimsonCat83 visited Wings
Where to fly a drone near Edinburgh
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What you can do here
- Fly Edinburgh in an FPV drone or as a gull, from 55.948°, -3.219° — 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 Edinburgh.