🇧🇷 Fortaleza, Brazil
Fortaleza is a major city of Brazil. Real-Earth coordinates -3.748°, -38.582°, population 3,602,319. A river or a coast to follow, tall enough buildings to make a proximity line interesting, and open airspace once you clear the centre. 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.
Seen on the water near Fortaleza last 30 days, AIS via the Skydex feed
1 vessel on 1 day.
📡 1 of them was heard by a Skydex volunteer receiver rather than by the upstream feed. Run one here
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 Fortaleza within 120 km, heard by the Skydex receiver network
- Pinto Martins International Airport (FOR) · 6 km · 141 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 Fortaleza
Visitors came from 2 countries this month.
“Pilots” counts signed-in players; “visits” counts sessions, not unique people.
Flying conditions in Fortaleza
Sunrise 05:10 · Sunset 17:26 · 12 h 16 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 Fortaleza through the year
November in Fortaleza averages 27.9°C with winds around 21 km/h, and roughly 95% of days are good for flying — about 2 days see rain.
Fewest weather restrictions: October, November, September; April is the most restricted at 25% usable days. (That's about wind and rain, not comfort — check the temperatures below.)
| Month | Avg temp | Wind | Rain days | Good to fly |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 27.3°C | 16 km/h | 23 | 52% |
| February | 26.6°C | 15 km/h | 27 | 29% |
| March | 26.5°C | 14 km/h | 26 | 26% |
| April | 26.3°C | 13 km/h | 27 | 25% |
| May | 26.7°C | 15 km/h | 19 | 48% |
| June | 26.5°C | 17 km/h | 25 | 52% |
| July | 26.4°C | 19 km/h | 16 | 63% |
| August | 27°C | 23 km/h | 6 | 84% |
| September | 27.4°C | 25 km/h | 2 | 90% |
| October | 27.5°C | 24 km/h | 2 | 98% |
| November | 27.9°C | 21 km/h | 2 | 95% |
| December | 28.1°C | 19 km/h | 12 | 84% |
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 Fortaleza
- SilentFox24 visited Wings
- BraveFox9 visited Wings
- BraveWolf91 visited Globe
- CosmicOwl72 visited Wings
- CrimsonFalcon21 visited Wings
ESSO visited Wings
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What you can do here
- Fly Fortaleza in an FPV drone or as a gull, from -3.748°, -38.582° — 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 Fortaleza.