🇨🇳 China in Skydex

China hosts 96 mapped cities, from the Yangtze delta to the edge of the Gobi. Every megalopolis you read about in geography class is down there at its real coordinates.

Fly over China →

Heard over China last 30 days, by the Skydex receiver network

25 aircraft on 5 days.

6× Airbus A320 6× Boeing 737-800 4× Airbus A320neo 2× Boeing 737 MAX 8 2× Boeing 777-300ER 1× Airbus A321neo 1× Airbus A321 1× Airbus A350-900 1× Airbus A350-1000 1× Boeing 767-300

Counted from what our volunteers’ antennas received — no other tracker involved. About the network · the stations · add yours

Seen on the water around China last 30 days, AIS via the Skydex feed

389 vessels on 19 days · 681 sightings (one vessel on one day) · type known for 258 of them.

📡 1 of them was heard by a Skydex volunteer receiver rather than by the upstream feed. Run one here

216× cargo ships19× tugs10× tankers5× high-speed craft5× passenger ships3× fishing vessels238× 🇨🇳 China 33× 🇸🇬 Singapore 29× 🇭🇰 Hong Kong S.A.R.22× 🇱🇷 Liberia 16× 🇵🇦 Panama 14× 🇲🇭 Marshall Islands 8× 🇲🇹 Malta 3× 🇰🇷 South Korea

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 China

Busiest cities this week

1Tianjin2 flights
2Shanghai1 flights · 1 pilot
3Guangzhou1 flights

Today1 flight1 pilot1 visit

This week5 flights1 pilot7 visits

This month9 flights2 pilots11 visits

Visitors came from 4 countries this month.

“Pilots” counts signed-in players; “visits” counts sessions, not unique people.

Recent activity across China

2026-11-10L Cameron visited Shanghai Wings
2026-11-08QuickWolf27 spawned Wings
2026-11-07BraveFalcon33 visited Tianjin Wings
2026-11-07QuickWolf55 visited Tianjin Globe
2026-11-07QuickFox83 visited Tianjin Globe
2026-11-07PixelFalcon50 visited Tianjin Wings

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🛩 Where to fly a drone in China →

96 cities you can fly

Shanghai

14,987k pop · 31.22°, 121.44°

Beijing

11,106k pop · 39.90°, 116.39°

Guangzhou

8,829k pop · 23.13°, 113.26°

Shenzhen

7,581k pop · 22.55°, 114.06°

Wuhan

7,243k pop · 30.58°, 114.27°

Tianjin

7,180k pop · 39.08°, 117.20°

Chongqing

6,461k pop · 29.57°, 106.59°

Shenyeng

4,787k pop · 41.81°, 123.45°

Dongguan

4,528k pop · 23.02°, 113.75°

Chengdu

4,123k pop · 30.67°, 104.07°

Xian

4,009k pop · 34.28°, 108.89°

Nanjing

3,679k pop · 32.05°, 118.78°

Guiyang

3,662k pop · 26.58°, 106.72°

Harbin

3,621k pop · 45.75°, 126.65°

Ürümqi

3,575k pop · 43.81°, 87.57°

Changchun

3,183k pop · 43.87°, 125.34°

Dalian

3,167k pop · 38.92°, 121.63°

Zibo

3,061k pop · 36.82°, 118.00°

Hangzhou

3,007k pop · 30.25°, 120.17°

Kunming

2,931k pop · 25.04°, 102.70°

Taiyuan

2,913k pop · 37.88°, 112.54°

Qingdao

2,866k pop · 36.09°, 120.33°

Jinan

2,798k pop · 36.68°, 116.99°

Zhengzhou

2,636k pop · 34.76°, 113.66°

Fuzhou

2,606k pop · 26.08°, 119.30°

Changsha

2,604k pop · 28.20°, 112.97°

Lanzhou

2,561k pop · 36.06°, 103.79°

Xiamen

2,519k pop · 24.45°, 118.08°

Jinxi

2,426k pop · 40.75°, 120.83°

Shijiazhuang

2,417k pop · 38.05°, 114.48°

Jilin

2,396k pop · 43.85°, 126.55°

Nanchang

2,350k pop · 28.68°, 115.88°

Wenzhou

2,350k pop · 28.02°, 120.65°

Nanchong

2,174k pop · 30.78°, 106.13°

Nanning

2,167k pop · 22.82°, 108.32°

Zaozhuang

2,145k pop · 34.88°, 117.57°

Yantai

2,116k pop · 37.53°, 121.40°

Xuzhou

2,091k pop · 34.28°, 117.18°

Linyi

2,082k pop · 35.08°, 118.33°

Baotou

2,036k pop · 40.65°, 109.82°

Hefei

2,035k pop · 31.85°, 117.28°

Suzhou

1,964k pop · 33.64°, 116.98°

Nanyang

1,944k pop · 33.00°, 112.53°

Ningbo

1,923k pop · 29.88°, 121.55°

Wuxi

1,749k pop · 31.58°, 120.30°

Hohhot

1,726k pop · 40.82°, 111.66°

Daqing

1,693k pop · 46.58°, 125.00°

Qiqihar

1,641k pop · 47.35°, 123.99°

Anshan

1,639k pop · 41.12°, 122.94°

Handan

1,631k pop · 36.58°, 114.48°

Shantou

1,601k pop · 23.37°, 116.67°

Zhanjiang

1,590k pop · 21.20°, 110.38°

Neijiang

1,466k pop · 29.58°, 105.05°

Quanzhou

1,463k pop · 24.90°, 118.58°

Huainan

1,451k pop · 32.63°, 116.98°

Mianyang

1,396k pop · 31.46°, 104.69°

Chifeng

1,277k pop · 42.27°, 118.95°

Huaiyin

1,264k pop · 33.59°, 119.07°

Tianshui

1,225k pop · 34.60°, 105.92°

Liupanshui

1,221k pop · 26.60°, 104.83°

Ankang

1,100k pop · 32.68°, 109.02°

Xining

1,048k pop · 36.62°, 101.77°

Jiamusi

1,020k pop · 46.83°, 130.35°

Hengyang

1,016k pop · 26.88°, 112.59°

Baoshan

1,000k pop · 25.12°, 99.15°

Yinchuan

991k pop · 38.47°, 106.27°

Guilin

987k pop · 25.28°, 110.28°

Jixi

965k pop · 45.30°, 130.97°

Pingxiang

961k pop · 27.62°, 113.85°

Tongliao

884k pop · 43.62°, 122.27°

Shache

851k pop · 38.43°, 77.25°

Yueyang

826k pop · 29.38°, 113.10°

Shaoguan

720k pop · 24.80°, 113.58°

Hami

580k pop · 42.83°, 93.52°

Yining

543k pop · 43.90°, 81.35°

Kashgar

507k pop · 39.48°, 75.97°

Wuwei

493k pop · 37.93°, 102.64°

Wuzhou

442k pop · 23.48°, 111.32°

Hotan

409k pop · 37.10°, 79.93°

Xichang

380k pop · 27.88°, 102.30°

Ulan Hot

242k pop · 46.08°, 122.08°

Hailar

231k pop · 49.20°, 119.70°

Zhangye

231k pop · 38.93°, 100.45°

Lhasa

220k pop · 29.64°, 91.10°

Bose

175k pop · 23.90°, 106.61°

Yulin

156k pop · 38.28°, 109.73°

Bei'an

155k pop · 48.25°, 126.53°

Gejiu

149k pop · 23.38°, 103.15°

Jiayuguan

148k pop · 39.82°, 98.30°

Altay

142k pop · 47.87°, 88.12°

Dunhuang

140k pop · 40.14°, 94.66°

Shizuishan

137k pop · 39.23°, 106.77°

Golmud

107k pop · 36.42°, 94.88°

Houma

102k pop · 35.62°, 111.21°

Xigaze

80k pop · 29.25°, 88.88°

Dulan

0k pop · 36.17°, 98.27°