🇦🇷 Mendoza, Argentina
Mendoza is a mid-sized city in Argentina. Real-Earth coordinates -32.881°, -68.819°, population 893,000. 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 Mendoza last 30 days, by the Skydex receiver network
1 aircraft on 1 day.
Counted from what our volunteers’ antennas received — no other tracker involved. About the network · the stations · add yours
Airports near Mendoza within 120 km, heard by the Skydex receiver network
- El Plumerillo Airport (MDZ) · 6 km · 205 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 Mendoza
“Pilots” counts signed-in players; “visits” counts sessions, not unique people.
Flying conditions in Mendoza
Sunrise 06:28 · Sunset 20:10 · 13 h 41 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 Mendoza through the year
November in Mendoza averages 22.6°C with winds around 17 km/h, and roughly 88% of days are good for flying — about 3 days see rain.
Conditions stay fairly even here — usable flying days range from 84% in January to 97% in June, so the season matters less than the day.
| Month | Avg temp | Wind | Rain days | Good to fly |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 26.3°C | 17 km/h | 8 | 84% |
| February | 25.8°C | 16 km/h | 5 | 89% |
| March | 20°C | 14 km/h | 7 | 87% |
| April | 15.4°C | 12 km/h | 4 | 93% |
| May | 12.2°C | 11 km/h | 2 | 94% |
| June | 8.7°C | 11 km/h | 1 | 97% |
| July | 7.8°C | 11 km/h | 3 | 94% |
| August | 10.5°C | 14 km/h | 3 | 90% |
| September | 15.7°C | 17 km/h | 1 | 92% |
| October | 19.2°C | 17 km/h | 3 | 94% |
| November | 22.6°C | 17 km/h | 3 | 88% |
| December | 25.1°C | 17 km/h | 2 | 97% |
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 Mendoza
- QuickOwl79 visited Wings
- BraveFox33 visited Wings
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What you can do here
- Fly Mendoza in an FPV drone or as a gull, from -32.881°, -68.819° — 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 Mendoza.