🇨🇳 Hefei, China
Hefei is a major city of China. Real-Earth coordinates 31.852°, 117.278°, population 2,035,000. 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 Hefei last 30 days, by the Skydex receiver network
3 aircraft on 2 days.
Counted from what our volunteers’ antennas received — no other tracker involved. About the network · the stations · add yours
Airports near Hefei within 120 km, heard by the Skydex receiver network
- Hefei Xinqiao International Airport (HFE) · 31 km · 63 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 Hefei
Flying conditions in Hefei
Sunrise 06:35 · Sunset 17:13 · 10 h 39 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 Hefei through the year
November in Hefei averages 12.7°C with winds around 14 km/h, and roughly 90% of days are good for flying — about 4 days see rain.
Fewest weather restrictions: November, December, January; July is the most restricted at 60% usable days. (That's about wind and rain, not comfort — check the temperatures below.)
| Month | Avg temp | Wind | Rain days | Good to fly |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 4.7°C | 13 km/h | 4 | 84% |
| February | 7°C | 13 km/h | 5 | 79% |
| March | 12.1°C | 14 km/h | 7 | 77% |
| April | 18.9°C | 15 km/h | 7 | 82% |
| May | 23.6°C | 15 km/h | 10 | 73% |
| June | 25.8°C | 14 km/h | 15 | 63% |
| July | 30.1°C | 16 km/h | 15 | 60% |
| August | 30.3°C | 12 km/h | 12 | 74% |
| September | 25.9°C | 15 km/h | 14 | 67% |
| October | 18.3°C | 13 km/h | 10 | 73% |
| November | 12.7°C | 14 km/h | 4 | 90% |
| December | 6.3°C | 12 km/h | 3 | 90% |
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 Hefei
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What you can do here
- Fly Hefei in an FPV drone or as a gull, from 31.852°, 117.278° — 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 Hefei.