🇦🇺 Canberra, Australia
Canberra is the capital of Australia. Real-Earth coordinates -35.283°, 149.129°, population 327,700. The busiest sky in the country — monuments to circle, other pilots in the air and the city's own tower frequency on the radio. 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 Canberra last 30 days, by the Skydex receiver network
860 aircraft on 31 days · 5,878 sightings (one aircraft on one day) · type known for 858 of them.
Counted from what our volunteers’ antennas received — no other tracker involved. About the network · the stations · add yours
Airports near Canberra within 120 km, heard by the Skydex receiver network
- Canberra International Airport (CBR) · 7 km · 2,031 flights in 30 days
- Cooma Snowy Mountains Airport (OOM) · 114 km · 103 flights in 30 days
- Moruya Airport (MYA) · 114 km · 39 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 Canberra
Flying conditions in Canberra
Sunrise 05:52 · Sunset 19:43 · 13 h 51 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 03:03 UTC and refreshed live in your browser. Weather by Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0).
Flying weather in Canberra through the year
November in Canberra averages 17.1°C with winds around 21 km/h, and roughly 72% of days are good for flying — about 9 days see rain.
Fewest weather restrictions: April, September, January; November is the most restricted at 72% usable days. (That's about wind and rain, not comfort — check the temperatures below.)
| Month | Avg temp | Wind | Rain days | Good to fly |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 20.7°C | 19 km/h | 6 | 82% |
| February | 20.1°C | 16 km/h | 7 | 79% |
| March | 18.5°C | 15 km/h | 8 | 76% |
| April | 13.2°C | 14 km/h | 3 | 92% |
| May | 10.6°C | 13 km/h | 7 | 79% |
| June | 6.2°C | 13 km/h | 7 | 78% |
| July | 5.8°C | 17 km/h | 7 | 75% |
| August | 8°C | 17 km/h | 6 | 79% |
| September | 10°C | 21 km/h | 4 | 85% |
| October | 13.6°C | 20 km/h | 6 | 79% |
| November | 17.1°C | 21 km/h | 9 | 72% |
| December | 19.7°C | 19 km/h | 7 | 82% |
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 Canberra
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Where to fly a drone near Canberra
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What you can do here
- Fly Canberra in an FPV drone or as a gull, from -35.283°, 149.129° — 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 Canberra.