🇺🇸 Seattle, United States of America
Seattle is a major city of United States of America. Real-Earth coordinates 47.600°, -122.315°, population 3,074,000. 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.
Seen on the water near Seattle last 30 days, AIS via the Skydex feed
597 vessels on 30 days · 5,698 sightings (one vessel on one day) · type known for 438 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 Seattle within 120 km, heard by the Skydex receiver network
- Boeing Field King County International Airport (BFI) · 8 km · 259 flights in 30 days
- Seattle Tacoma International Airport (SEA) · 17 km · 22,799 flights in 30 days
- Snohomish County (Paine Field) Airport (PAE) · 34 km · 417 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 Seattle
Visitors came from 2 countries this month.
“Pilots” counts signed-in players; “visits” counts sessions, not unique people.
Flying conditions in Seattle
Sunrise 07:07 · Sunset 16:38 · 9 h 31 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 00:41 UTC and refreshed live in your browser. Weather by Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0).
Flying weather in Seattle through the year
November in Seattle averages 8.7°C with winds around 18 km/h, and roughly 43% of days are good for flying — about 20 days see rain.
Fewest weather restrictions: July, June, August; December 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 | 5°C | 14 km/h | 11 | 69% |
| February | 5.7°C | 19 km/h | 15 | 57% |
| March | 8°C | 22 km/h | 19 | 42% |
| April | 10.6°C | 16 km/h | 10 | 75% |
| May | 14.1°C | 17 km/h | 8 | 74% |
| June | 17.4°C | 17 km/h | 4 | 90% |
| July | 19.3°C | 17 km/h | 3 | 92% |
| August | 19.3°C | 17 km/h | 5 | 85% |
| September | 16.8°C | 15 km/h | 6 | 85% |
| October | 11.7°C | 19 km/h | 15 | 65% |
| November | 8.7°C | 18 km/h | 20 | 43% |
| December | 7.1°C | 22 km/h | 20 | 34% |
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 Seattle
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What you can do here
- Fly Seattle in an FPV drone or as a gull, from 47.600°, -122.315° — 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 Seattle.