🇬🇧 Glasgow, United Kingdom
Glasgow is a major city of United Kingdom. Real-Earth coordinates 55.862°, -4.239°, population 1,160,000. 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.
Heard over Glasgow last 30 days, by the Skydex receiver network
3,957 aircraft on 31 days · 14,046 sightings (one aircraft on one day) · type known for 3,949 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 Glasgow last 30 days, AIS via the Skydex feed
160 vessels on 30 days · 783 sightings (one vessel on one day) · type known for 114 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 Glasgow within 120 km, heard by the Skydex receiver network
- Glasgow International Airport (GLA) · 12 km · 2,804 flights in 30 days
- Glasgow Prestwick Airport (PIK) · 45 km · 318 flights in 30 days
- Edinburgh Airport (EDI) · 55 km · 5,483 flights in 30 days
- Dundee Airport (DND) · 100 km · 19 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 Glasgow
Visitors came from 2 countries this month.
“Pilots” counts signed-in players; “visits” counts sessions, not unique people.
Flying conditions in Glasgow
Sunrise 07:44 · Sunset 16:16 · 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 Glasgow through the year
November in Glasgow averages 6.5°C with winds around 18 km/h, and roughly 62% of days are good for flying — about 13 days see rain.
Fewest weather restrictions: May, July, April; June is the most restricted at 40% usable days. (That's about wind and rain, not comfort — check the temperatures below.)
| Month | Avg temp | Wind | Rain days | Good to fly |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 3.1°C | 18 km/h | 14 | 63% |
| February | 4.9°C | 21 km/h | 17 | 50% |
| March | 7°C | 21 km/h | 15 | 56% |
| April | 8.9°C | 18 km/h | 12 | 67% |
| May | 12.1°C | 17 km/h | 13 | 71% |
| June | 14.3°C | 20 km/h | 22 | 40% |
| July | 16°C | 17 km/h | 12 | 70% |
| August | 15.1°C | 22 km/h | 20 | 44% |
| September | 12°C | 18 km/h | 16 | 65% |
| October | 10.2°C | 21 km/h | 15 | 60% |
| November | 6.5°C | 18 km/h | 13 | 62% |
| December | 6°C | 21 km/h | 18 | 45% |
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 Glasgow
- CosmicOwl97 visited Wings
- CosmicWolf86 visited Wings
- CosmicBear52 visited Globe
- CosmicBear52 visited Globe
ICRAZYBRUFFY visited Wings
Where to fly a drone near Glasgow
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What you can do here
- Fly Glasgow in an FPV drone or as a gull, from 55.862°, -4.239° — 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 Glasgow.