🇨🇳 Dongguan, China
Dongguan is a major city of China. Real-Earth coordinates 23.022°, 113.750°, population 4,528,000. A river or a coast to follow, tall enough buildings to make a proximity line interesting, and open airspace once you clear the centre. 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 Dongguan last 30 days, by the Skydex receiver network
13 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 Dongguan last 30 days, AIS via the Skydex feed
1,663 vessels on 31 days · 7,501 sightings (one vessel on one day) · type known for 1,188 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
Airports near Dongguan within 120 km, heard by the Skydex receiver network
- Shenzhen Bao'an International Airport (SZX) · 43 km · 1,402 flights in 30 days
- Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport (CAN) · 62 km · 2,876 flights in 30 days
- Chek Lap Kok International Airport (HKG) · 81 km · 7,954 flights in 30 days
- Macau International Airport (MFM) · 98 km · 339 flights in 30 days
- Zhuhai Airport (ZUH) · 119 km · 3 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 Dongguan
Flying conditions in Dongguan
Sunrise 06:35 · Sunset 17:42 · 11 h 06 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 Dongguan through the year
November in Dongguan averages 20.8°C with winds around 12 km/h, and roughly 82% of days are good for flying — about 7 days see rain.
Fewest weather restrictions: January, December, October; July is the most restricted at 17% usable days. (That's about wind and rain, not comfort — check the temperatures below.)
| Month | Avg temp | Wind | Rain days | Good to fly |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 15.6°C | 11 km/h | 2 | 97% |
| February | 18.1°C | 11 km/h | 6 | 86% |
| March | 20°C | 13 km/h | 12 | 66% |
| April | 24°C | 15 km/h | 15 | 65% |
| May | 26°C | 12 km/h | 25 | 44% |
| June | 27.8°C | 14 km/h | 26 | 23% |
| July | 28.3°C | 14 km/h | 27 | 17% |
| August | 28°C | 12 km/h | 24 | 31% |
| September | 27.7°C | 14 km/h | 24 | 37% |
| October | 26°C | 13 km/h | 5 | 90% |
| November | 20.8°C | 12 km/h | 7 | 82% |
| December | 17°C | 10 km/h | 2 | 95% |
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 Dongguan
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What you can do here
- Fly Dongguan in an FPV drone or as a gull, from 23.022°, 113.750° — 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 Dongguan.