🇦🇷 Mar del Plata, Argentina
Mar del Plata is a mid-sized city in Argentina. Real-Earth coordinates -38.000°, -57.580°, population 555,897. 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 Mar del Plata last 30 days, by the Skydex receiver network
29 aircraft on 21 days · 45 sightings (one aircraft on one day) · type known for 28 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 Mar del Plata last 30 days, AIS via the Skydex feed
48 vessels on 14 days · 100 sightings (one vessel on one day) · type known for 16 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 Mar del Plata within 120 km, heard by the Skydex receiver network
- Ástor Piazzola International Airport (MDQ) · 7 km · 16 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 Mar del Plata
“Pilots” counts signed-in players; “visits” counts sessions, not unique people.
Flying conditions in Mar del Plata
Sunrise 05:33 · Sunset 19:35 · 14 h 02 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 Mar del Plata through the year
November in Mar del Plata averages 16.7°C with winds around 24 km/h, and roughly 70% of days are good for flying — about 8 days see rain.
Fewest weather restrictions: January, June, July; August is the most restricted at 63% usable days. (That's about wind and rain, not comfort — check the temperatures below.)
| Month | Avg temp | Wind | Rain days | Good to fly |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 20.4°C | 22 km/h | 6 | 81% |
| February | 21.2°C | 23 km/h | 11 | 64% |
| March | 19.3°C | 22 km/h | 12 | 69% |
| April | 15.4°C | 22 km/h | 10 | 67% |
| May | 12°C | 22 km/h | 9 | 73% |
| June | 8.7°C | 20 km/h | 9 | 77% |
| July | 8.8°C | 21 km/h | 8 | 75% |
| August | 9.8°C | 25 km/h | 10 | 63% |
| September | 11.6°C | 23 km/h | 6 | 73% |
| October | 14.8°C | 24 km/h | 7 | 73% |
| November | 16.7°C | 24 km/h | 8 | 70% |
| December | 18.8°C | 23 km/h | 9 | 69% |
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 Mar del Plata
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What you can do here
- Fly Mar del Plata in an FPV drone or as a gull, from -38.000°, -57.580° — 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 Mar del Plata.