🇨🇦 Winnipeg, Canada
Winnipeg is a mid-sized city in Canada. Real-Earth coordinates 49.883°, -97.166°, population 632,063. 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.
Live over Winnipeg heard by the Skydex receiver network
5 aircraft within 60 km right now.
- H125T · 1,950 ft · 4 km
- ACA267 · Airbus A220-300 · Air Canada · on the ground · 5 km
- c001e6 · Citation CJ2 · on the ground · 6 km
- AKT1358 · Boeing 737-400 · Karat · 8,450 ft · 22 km
- ACA175 · Airbus A321 · Air Canada · 34,000 ft · 47 km
As of 03:04 UTC · updates live · about the network · see them in 3D over Winnipeg →
Heard over Winnipeg last 30 days, by the Skydex receiver network
1,993 aircraft on 31 days · 8,594 sightings (one aircraft on one day) · type known for 1,989 of them.
Counted from what our volunteers’ antennas received — no other tracker involved. About the network · the stations · add yours
Airports near Winnipeg within 120 km, heard by the Skydex receiver network
- Winnipeg / James Armstrong Richardson International Airport (YWG) · 6 km · 2,418 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 Winnipeg
Flying conditions in Winnipeg
Sunrise 07:33 · Sunset 16:51 · 9 h 18 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 Winnipeg through the year
November in Winnipeg averages -0.1°C with winds around 18 km/h, and roughly 55% of days are good for flying — about 6 days see rain.
Fewest weather restrictions: May, July, August; January is the most restricted at 0% usable days. (That's about wind and rain, not comfort — check the temperatures below.)
| Month | Avg temp | Wind | Rain days | Good to fly |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | -16°C | 19 km/h | 6 | 0% |
| February | -13°C | 19 km/h | 5 | 5% |
| March | -6.3°C | 18 km/h | 8 | 10% |
| April | 3.1°C | 18 km/h | 6 | 67% |
| May | 13.8°C | 20 km/h | 7 | 82% |
| June | 18.8°C | 18 km/h | 17 | 63% |
| July | 21.4°C | 17 km/h | 10 | 75% |
| August | 19.8°C | 19 km/h | 10 | 71% |
| September | 17.4°C | 20 km/h | 9 | 70% |
| October | 9.1°C | 21 km/h | 8 | 71% |
| November | -0.1°C | 18 km/h | 6 | 55% |
| December | -12.1°C | 19 km/h | 10 | 5% |
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 Winnipeg
- CrimsonWolf89 visited Wings
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What you can do here
- Fly Winnipeg in an FPV drone or as a gull, from 49.883°, -97.166° — 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 Winnipeg.