Kaliningrad is widely identified as a primary source of Baltic GPS jamming, so the surrounding sea and coast read as heavily degraded.
Kaliningrad is a heavily militarised Russian exclave wedged between Poland and Lithuania, home to some of the most concentrated electronic-warfare assets in Europe. Systems based here radiate interference across the southern Baltic, degrading GPS for civilian aircraft, ships and drones far beyond the oblast’s borders.
The effect has been near-constant since 2022 and intensifies during Russian military exercises. Because Kaliningrad sits at the centre of busy Baltic air and sea routes, its jamming reaches Polish, Lithuanian, Swedish and Danish airspace — which is why the sea around it reads as permanently degraded on the map above.
Check the live reading above and open the map. FLYAWAY reads GPS accuracy from the aircraft over Kaliningrad and refreshes every few minutes.
When the reading is high, treat GPS near Kaliningrad as unreliable: keep the drone in sight, be ready to fly manually, and do not rely on return-to-home. When it is severe, do not fly.
Kaliningrad is widely identified as a primary source of Baltic GPS jamming, so the surrounding sea and coast read as heavily degraded.
Kaliningrad is a Russian exclave on the Baltic, wedged between Poland and Lithuania around the ice-free port at the mouth of the Pregolya. Rather than being measured against a distant jamming source, the region is itself the origin most frequently cited in reports of Baltic GPS interference — the reference point against which exposure elsewhere along the coast tends to be judged.
Widespread GPS interference across the Baltic has been reported publicly since 2022 and escalated through 2023 and 2024, with aviation and maritime authorities in Poland, the Baltic states, Finland and Sweden all raising concerns. In that body of reporting, the Kaliningrad region is the source identified most often, placing it at the centre of the wider Baltic interference picture rather than at its edge.
Kaliningrad functions as Russia's Baltic exclave, an ice-free naval port and fishing base whose own harbour and coastal traffic rely on satellite navigation. The same region is widely identified as a primary origin of regional GPS jamming — an unusual position in which local maritime and air operations depend on the very signals whose disruption is most often traced back to this area.
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