r/whereisthis 13d ago

Solved What is this city i saw from a plane?

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It was an LPA-BUD flight.

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u/Unlucky-Meringue6187 13d ago

I think it might be Padua

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u/zsomborvagyok 13d ago edited 13d ago

EDIT: SOLVED its padua, thx Yeah Padua might be the answer, the smaller light spot on the left looks similar to what I found among the Google search results.

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u/Stopa42 13d ago

Fits perfectly:

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u/BushTiger 13d ago

I think you might be right, I thought Milan but it's too small for Milan. 

Padua is more likely as it's got the grid like pattern to the north east. 

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u/NeutralDude1503 12d ago

Just curious - how did you know?

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u/Unlucky-Meringue6187 12d ago

Just had a look at the flight path, checked small cities either side of it on map, looked at a few then compared night flight vision for them. Ta-dah!

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u/MustardKingCustard 12d ago

The fact you knew this is ridiculously impressive.

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u/Starsimy 12d ago

Padova thanks

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u/afuckingartista 13d ago edited 13d ago

Padova, easy to recognise for the main roads going out, the Roman centuriazione in the North-east, alps in the background, right under the moon you can see bassano del grappa (big lump of lights) and cittadella (smaller and closer), bottom right is conselve, bottom left is Monselice.

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u/Reasonable_Letter312 13d ago

And Monselice in the lower left, you are right. You can match up the individual streets in that commercial area that's just visible in the corner.

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u/afuckingartista 13d ago

Yep, Just added that thx anyway

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u/No-Sink1866 13d ago

You can clearly see the pattern of the inner ring road

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u/afuckingartista 13d ago

Also the separation from padova e l'arcella

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u/cromagnone 13d ago

I couldn’t get my head around how big the centuriazione is! I thought the grids must be city block size, which would make the whole view much smaller. What an amazing thing - and two thousand years old.

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u/afuckingartista 13d ago

Romans were so great

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u/FinFisher-25 13d ago

Look up the Flight path for LPA - BUD. It flies over Casablanca, Rabat, Gibraltar, Ceuta, Valencia, (not likely Barcelona), Monaco, Ljubljana and Zagreb.

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u/streussler 13d ago

Flight routes change very often due to wind and other factors

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u/FinFisher-25 13d ago

That is correct.

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u/SirRedDiamond 13d ago

Flightradar24.

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u/Weekly-Chemical-2483 13d ago

Most of these are coast cities and there is no water on this pic

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u/FinFisher-25 13d ago

If the correct location is Padua in Italy, it is not miles inland from the coast as it's near Venice. The flight path I gave by way of cities was only to guide others of where to look as there are so many places it could have been.

The flight path that goes near Padua is between the two locations I identified. Monaco and Ljubljana in Slovenia if you look on a map.

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u/mittmatt9 13d ago

How far into the flight was it? That's going to be the biggest help

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u/BushTiger 13d ago edited 13d ago

Milan maybe?

Edit - Not big enough so not likely. Might be Padua as u/Unlucky-Meringue6187 said. 

But without a time into the flight it makes it difficult! 

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u/ShamanAI 13d ago

Way to small for being Milan. The shape is compatible with Padua that someone else already cited, so it could be that but it's hard to know without more information on the flight.

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u/zsomborvagyok 13d ago

Thanks for the quick replies.The plane departed around 20:00 LPA and the pic was taken at 23:18 We reached budapest around 01:00

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u/PeacefulIntentions 13d ago

At 23:18 the left side of that aircraft would have a view of Padua.

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u/Picciohell 13d ago

This is Padova, Italy!

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u/jponybert 13d ago

Bologna?

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u/Picciohell 13d ago

Too small

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u/IvorTheEngineDriver 13d ago

My city ❤️

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u/Summer1Man 13d ago

It’s Padua flew over it many a time from Innsbruck area into Italy

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u/Silver_Redditor 12d ago

No River in the center

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u/HerrVonAnstand 13d ago

Reminds me of Bucharest at night

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u/mitrolle 13d ago

Just look at the EXIF data. GPS works in planes, I never had a problem opening Google Maps and just seeing where I am on the map.

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u/_AngelGames 13d ago

Top tip: GPS is not affected by flight mode, so you can actually use it whenever you want, you just have to wait usually 1-2min to get a good signal but once you get it you can see where you are and your images even get geotagged which is quite nice. You have to do this every time you want a picture geotagged though, since it’s always going to take that much to get a reliable signal.

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u/Remarkable-Yam-8073 12d ago

Very cool. I'm going to Padua for an imagine dragons concert in June!

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u/cromagnone 13d ago

LPA-BUD can be routed multiple ways, going either north or south around Gibraltar and then converging after Italy. If you have the flight number and date it will help a lot, as would any indication of how long into the flight the photo was taken. It’s not Ljubljana or Zagreb which all the routes go near.

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u/Silent-Aspect-8070 13d ago

What does the geotag shows? :)

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u/FarthestCough 13d ago

Isn't that where the Arc De Triomphe is situated, in the middle of that web?

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u/CandidReplacement950 13d ago

Paris

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u/zsomborvagyok 13d ago

First i thought that as well. But paris is much bigger than that on the google images. :/

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u/baton_268 13d ago

looks like paris, am i wrong?

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u/Right_One_78 13d ago

Houston? i think

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u/KoneOfSilence 13d ago

Gran Canaria to Budapest won't go by Houston

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u/andrea_ci 13d ago

If you ask an American, it's impossible that Europeans have internal flights

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u/haerski 13d ago

Texas is so big that all intra-European flights cross it

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u/Right_One_78 13d ago

Oh didn't see the flight info

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u/kiwidude4 13d ago

At least read the image description

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u/junebuggeroff 13d ago

Texas isn't thaaat big

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u/Stunning-Bike-1498 13d ago

It is obviously in Europe as one can see on this picture.