🇨🇴 Manizales, Colombia
Manizales is a mid-sized city in Colombia. Real-Earth coordinates 5.060°, -75.520°, population 375,848. 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 Manizales last 30 days, AIS via the Skydex feed
1 vessel on 1 day.
📡 1 of them was heard by a Skydex volunteer receiver rather than by the upstream feed. Run one here
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 Manizales
Visitors came from 2 countries this month.
“Pilots” counts signed-in players; “visits” counts sessions, not unique people.
Flying conditions in Manizales
Sunrise 05:48 · Sunset 17:43 · 11 h 54 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 Manizales through the year
November in Manizales averages 14.6°C with winds around 8 km/h, and roughly 8% of days are good for flying — about 29 days see rain.
Fewest weather restrictions: April, January, March; February is the most restricted at 5% usable days. (That's about wind and rain, not comfort — check the temperatures below.)
| Month | Avg temp | Wind | Rain days | Good to fly |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 14.8°C | 9 km/h | 26 | 21% |
| February | 14.7°C | 8 km/h | 29 | 5% |
| March | 15.4°C | 9 km/h | 26 | 21% |
| April | 15.6°C | 8 km/h | 25 | 23% |
| May | 15.7°C | 9 km/h | 29 | 6% |
| June | 15.5°C | 9 km/h | 28 | 13% |
| July | 15.7°C | 10 km/h | 29 | 11% |
| August | 14.9°C | 9 km/h | 28 | 8% |
| September | 15.3°C | 9 km/h | 28 | 15% |
| October | 15°C | 8 km/h | 28 | 16% |
| November | 14.6°C | 8 km/h | 29 | 8% |
| December | 14.8°C | 8 km/h | 28 | 18% |
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 Manizales
- SilentFalcon89 visited Wings
- QuickOwl73 visited Globe
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What you can do here
- Fly Manizales in an FPV drone or as a gull, from 5.060°, -75.520° — 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 Manizales.