🇨🇱 Valparaíso, Chile
Valparaíso is a mid-sized city in Chile. Real-Earth coordinates -33.048°, -71.617°, population 854,000. 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 Valparaíso last 30 days, AIS via the Skydex feed
2 vessels on 2 days.
📡 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 Valparaíso within 120 km, heard by the Skydex receiver network
- Comodoro Arturo Merino Benítez International Airport (SCL) · 86 km · 972 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 Valparaíso
Flying conditions in Valparaíso
Sunrise 06:38 · Sunset 20:22 · 13 h 44 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 Valparaíso through the year
November in Valparaíso averages 15.5°C with winds around 23 km/h, and roughly 78% of days are good for flying — about 2 days see rain.
Fewest weather restrictions: January, February, April; July is the most restricted at 76% usable days. (That's about wind and rain, not comfort — check the temperatures below.)
| Month | Avg temp | Wind | Rain days | Good to fly |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 17.9°C | 21 km/h | 1 | 95% |
| February | 18.1°C | 22 km/h | 1 | 93% |
| March | 17°C | 21 km/h | 2 | 90% |
| April | 14.9°C | 21 km/h | 2 | 93% |
| May | 13.1°C | 18 km/h | 4 | 87% |
| June | 12°C | 19 km/h | 5 | 87% |
| July | 12.3°C | 21 km/h | 8 | 76% |
| August | 12.2°C | 22 km/h | 8 | 82% |
| September | 12.9°C | 23 km/h | 3 | 85% |
| October | 14.3°C | 23 km/h | 2 | 87% |
| November | 15.5°C | 23 km/h | 2 | 78% |
| December | 16.8°C | 22 km/h | 0 | 87% |
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 Valparaíso
Amado visited Wings
- CosmicCat84 visited Wings
- CrimsonFox13 visited Globe
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What you can do here
- Fly Valparaíso in an FPV drone or as a gull, from -33.048°, -71.617° — 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 Valparaíso.