🇧🇷 Sorocaba, Brazil
Sorocaba is a mid-sized city in Brazil. Real-Earth coordinates -23.490°, -47.470°, population 563,281. 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 Sorocaba 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
Seen on the water near Sorocaba last 30 days, AIS via the Skydex feed
30 vessels on 22 days · 42 sightings (one vessel on one day) · type known for 28 of them.
📡 30 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 Sorocaba within 120 km, heard by the Skydex receiver network
- Viracopos International Airport (VCP) · 64 km · 331 flights in 30 days
- Congonhas Airport (CGH) · 84 km · 84 flights in 30 days
- Guarulhos - Governador André Franco Montoro International Airport (GRU) · 102 km · 2,029 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 Sorocaba
Flying conditions in Sorocaba
Sunrise 05:18 · Sunset 18:29 · 13 h 11 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 Sorocaba through the year
November in Sorocaba averages 22°C with winds around 16 km/h, and roughly 65% of days are good for flying — about 15 days see rain.
Fewest weather restrictions: September, July, August; January is the most restricted at 39% usable days. (That's about wind and rain, not comfort — check the temperatures below.)
| Month | Avg temp | Wind | Rain days | Good to fly |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 23.2°C | 15 km/h | 24 | 39% |
| February | 24.2°C | 14 km/h | 19 | 48% |
| March | 23.7°C | 14 km/h | 14 | 69% |
| April | 21.9°C | 14 km/h | 13 | 67% |
| May | 19.2°C | 13 km/h | 7 | 84% |
| June | 17°C | 13 km/h | 10 | 68% |
| July | 17.1°C | 14 km/h | 4 | 90% |
| August | 18.6°C | 16 km/h | 3 | 89% |
| September | 22.4°C | 18 km/h | 3 | 93% |
| October | 21.4°C | 19 km/h | 12 | 63% |
| November | 22°C | 16 km/h | 15 | 65% |
| December | 23.6°C | 16 km/h | 16 | 47% |
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 Sorocaba
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What you can do here
- Fly Sorocaba in an FPV drone or as a gull, from -23.490°, -47.470° — 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 Sorocaba.