🇨🇱 Antofagasta, Chile
Antofagasta is a mid-sized city in Chile. Real-Earth coordinates -23.650°, -70.400°, population 309,832. 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.
Seen on the water near Antofagasta last 30 days, AIS via the Skydex feed
22 vessels on 23 days · 64 sightings (one vessel on one day) · type known for 13 of them.
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
Activity in Antofagasta
Flying conditions in Antofagasta
Sunrise 06:50 · Sunset 20:00 · 13 h 10 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 Antofagasta through the year
November in Antofagasta averages 17.5°C with winds around 18 km/h, and roughly 100% of days are good for flying — about 0 days see rain.
Conditions stay fairly even here — usable flying days range from 98% in September to 100% in January, so the season matters less than the day.
| Month | Avg temp | Wind | Rain days | Good to fly |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 21°C | 19 km/h | 0 | 100% |
| February | 22.2°C | 17 km/h | 0 | 100% |
| March | 20.2°C | 15 km/h | 0 | 100% |
| April | 17.8°C | 14 km/h | 1 | 100% |
| May | 16.1°C | 12 km/h | 0 | 100% |
| June | 15.3°C | 11 km/h | 0 | 100% |
| July | 14.9°C | 11 km/h | 0 | 100% |
| August | 14.5°C | 14 km/h | 0 | 100% |
| September | 14.9°C | 15 km/h | 1 | 98% |
| October | 16.1°C | 16 km/h | 0 | 100% |
| November | 17.5°C | 18 km/h | 0 | 100% |
| December | 18.9°C | 18 km/h | 0 | 100% |
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 Antofagasta
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What you can do here
- Fly Antofagasta in an FPV drone or as a gull, from -23.650°, -70.400° — 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 Antofagasta.