🇨🇳 Guangzhou, China
Guangzhou is one of the largest population centres on Earth. Real-Earth coordinates 23.125°, 113.262°, population 8,829,000. Skyline in every direction and an approach that never quite ends — one of the more demanding places to fly low and fast. 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 Guangzhou last 30 days, by the Skydex receiver network
7 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 Guangzhou last 30 days, AIS via the Skydex feed
484 vessels on 25 days · 937 sightings (one vessel on one day) · type known for 316 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 Guangzhou within 120 km, heard by the Skydex receiver network
- Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport (CAN) · 30 km · 2,866 flights in 30 days
- Shenzhen Bao'an International Airport (SZX) · 78 km · 1,400 flights in 30 days
- Chek Lap Kok International Airport (HKG) · 113 km · 7,941 flights in 30 days
- Macau International Airport (MFM) · 114 km · 337 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 Guangzhou
“Pilots” counts signed-in players; “visits” counts sessions, not unique people.
Flying conditions in Guangzhou
Sunrise 06:37 · Sunset 17:43 · 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 01:44 UTC and refreshed live in your browser. Weather by Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0).
Flying weather in Guangzhou through the year
November in Guangzhou averages 20.6°C with winds around 15 km/h, and roughly 80% of days are good for flying — about 6 days see rain.
Fewest weather restrictions: January, December, February; June is the most restricted at 18% usable days. (That's about wind and rain, not comfort — check the temperatures below.)
| Month | Avg temp | Wind | Rain days | Good to fly |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 16.1°C | 13 km/h | 1 | 98% |
| February | 18.3°C | 13 km/h | 3 | 91% |
| March | 20.1°C | 14 km/h | 11 | 68% |
| April | 24.2°C | 14 km/h | 14 | 58% |
| May | 26.1°C | 12 km/h | 21 | 42% |
| June | 28°C | 14 km/h | 26 | 18% |
| July | 28.7°C | 14 km/h | 26 | 22% |
| August | 28.4°C | 13 km/h | 25 | 26% |
| September | 28.1°C | 16 km/h | 24 | 33% |
| October | 25.9°C | 17 km/h | 6 | 84% |
| November | 20.6°C | 15 km/h | 6 | 80% |
| December | 17.3°C | 13 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 Guangzhou
- BraveFalcon2 visited Wings
- CrimsonOwl46 visited Wings
- BraveCat48 visited Wings
- CosmicCat93 visited Globe
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What you can do here
- Fly Guangzhou in an FPV drone or as a gull, from 23.125°, 113.262° — 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 Guangzhou.