🇨🇴 Cartagena, Colombia
Cartagena is a mid-sized city in Colombia. Real-Earth coordinates 10.402°, -75.516°, population 887,000. 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 Cartagena last 30 days, AIS via the Skydex feed
60 vessels on 6 days · 105 sightings (one vessel on one day) · type known for 43 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 Cartagena within 120 km, heard by the Skydex receiver network
- Rafael Nuñez International Airport (CTG) · 5 km · 127 flights in 30 days
- Ernesto Cortissoz International Airport (BAQ) · 97 km · 25 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 Cartagena
Flying conditions in Cartagena
Sunrise 05:55 · Sunset 17:36 · 11 h 41 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 Cartagena through the year
November in Cartagena averages 27.2°C with winds around 16 km/h, and roughly 47% of days are good for flying — about 21 days see rain.
Fewest weather restrictions: March, January, April; October is the most restricted at 37% usable days. (That's about wind and rain, not comfort — check the temperatures below.)
| Month | Avg temp | Wind | Rain days | Good to fly |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 27.7°C | 21 km/h | 6 | 90% |
| February | 27.5°C | 22 km/h | 11 | 77% |
| March | 28.3°C | 22 km/h | 6 | 92% |
| April | 28.4°C | 19 km/h | 14 | 83% |
| May | 28.6°C | 16 km/h | 21 | 50% |
| June | 28.3°C | 16 km/h | 21 | 42% |
| July | 28.8°C | 18 km/h | 19 | 56% |
| August | 27.8°C | 16 km/h | 23 | 37% |
| September | 27.6°C | 15 km/h | 25 | 38% |
| October | 27.4°C | 16 km/h | 26 | 37% |
| November | 27.2°C | 16 km/h | 21 | 47% |
| December | 27.7°C | 18 km/h | 14 | 69% |
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 Cartagena
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What you can do here
- Fly Cartagena in an FPV drone or as a gull, from 10.402°, -75.516° — 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 Cartagena.