🇧🇷 Recife, Brazil
Recife is a major city of Brazil. Real-Earth coordinates -8.061°, -34.909°, population 3,651,000. 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 Recife 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 Recife within 120 km, heard by the Skydex receiver network
- Guararapes - Gilberto Freyre International Airport (REC) · 7 km · 230 flights in 30 days
- Presidente Castro Pinto Airport (JPA) · 102 km · 2 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 Recife
Flying conditions in Recife
Sunrise 04:49 · Sunset 17:17 · 12 h 28 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 Recife through the year
November in Recife averages 26.6°C with winds around 17 km/h, and roughly 78% of days are good for flying — about 14 days see rain.
Fewest weather restrictions: November, October, December; June is the most restricted at 17% usable days. (That's about wind and rain, not comfort — check the temperatures below.)
| Month | Avg temp | Wind | Rain days | Good to fly |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 26.9°C | 16 km/h | 21 | 48% |
| February | 26.9°C | 15 km/h | 21 | 55% |
| March | 27.2°C | 15 km/h | 20 | 44% |
| April | 26.7°C | 15 km/h | 23 | 43% |
| May | 25.8°C | 16 km/h | 26 | 27% |
| June | 25.1°C | 16 km/h | 27 | 17% |
| July | 24.6°C | 19 km/h | 23 | 33% |
| August | 24.2°C | 20 km/h | 27 | 34% |
| September | 24.7°C | 21 km/h | 23 | 43% |
| October | 25.6°C | 19 km/h | 21 | 63% |
| November | 26.6°C | 17 km/h | 14 | 78% |
| December | 26.8°C | 17 km/h | 21 | 56% |
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 Recife
- BraveWolf30 visited Wings
- BraveWolf30 visited Globe
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What you can do here
- Fly Recife in an FPV drone or as a gull, from -8.061°, -34.909° — 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 Recife.