🇧🇷 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Rio de Janeiro is one of the largest population centres on Earth. Real-Earth coordinates -22.907°, -43.212°, population 11,748,000. Skyline in every direction and an approach that never quite ends — one of the more demanding places to fly low and fast. 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.
▶ Watch a flight: Flying up to Christ the Redeemer in Rio de Janeiro · All flight videos
Seen on the water near Rio de Janeiro last 30 days, AIS via the Skydex feed
417 vessels on 30 days · 1,718 sightings (one vessel on one day) · type known for 203 of them.
📡 117 of them were 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 Rio de Janeiro within 120 km, heard by the Skydex receiver network
- Santos Dumont Airport (SDU) · 5 km · 89 flights in 30 days
- Galeão - Antônio Carlos Jobim International Airport (GIG) · 11 km · 585 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 Rio de Janeiro
Visitors came from 5 countries this month.
“Pilots” counts signed-in players; “visits” counts sessions, not unique people.
Flying conditions in Rio de Janeiro
Sunrise 05:02 · Sunset 18:10 · 13 h 08 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 00:41 UTC and refreshed live in your browser. Weather by Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0).
Flying weather in Rio de Janeiro through the year
November in Rio de Janeiro averages 23.3°C with winds around 18 km/h, and roughly 65% of days are good for flying — about 15 days see rain.
Fewest weather restrictions: August, September, March; December is the most restricted at 58% usable days. (That's about wind and rain, not comfort — check the temperatures below.)
| Month | Avg temp | Wind | Rain days | Good to fly |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 26.6°C | 15 km/h | 14 | 63% |
| February | 27.4°C | 16 km/h | 12 | 66% |
| March | 25.6°C | 16 km/h | 8 | 79% |
| April | 24.2°C | 14 km/h | 12 | 75% |
| May | 22.4°C | 14 km/h | 8 | 79% |
| June | 20.8°C | 14 km/h | 11 | 77% |
| July | 20.2°C | 14 km/h | 8 | 78% |
| August | 20.7°C | 17 km/h | 5 | 85% |
| September | 22.6°C | 19 km/h | 8 | 82% |
| October | 22.5°C | 19 km/h | 12 | 68% |
| November | 23.3°C | 18 km/h | 15 | 65% |
| December | 25.5°C | 17 km/h | 15 | 58% |
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 Rio de Janeiro
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What you can do here
- Fly Rio de Janeiro in an FPV drone or as a gull, from -22.907°, -43.212° — 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 Rio de Janeiro.