🇪🇬 Alexandria, Egypt
Alexandria is a major city of Egypt. Real-Earth coordinates 31.202°, 29.948°, population 4,165,000. 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.
Airports near Alexandria within 120 km, heard by the Skydex receiver network
- Borg El Arab International Airport (HBE) · 40 km · 112 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 Alexandria
Flying conditions in Alexandria
Sunrise 06:23 · Sunset 17:04 · 10 h 40 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 00:41 UTC and refreshed live in your browser. Weather by Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0).
Flying weather in Alexandria through the year
November in Alexandria averages 20.3°C with winds around 17 km/h, and roughly 92% of days are good for flying — about 4 days see rain.
Conditions stay fairly even here — usable flying days range from 87% in December to 100% in June, so the season matters less than the day.
| Month | Avg temp | Wind | Rain days | Good to fly |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 15.4°C | 17 km/h | 5 | 90% |
| February | 15.8°C | 19 km/h | 1 | 91% |
| March | 17.1°C | 19 km/h | 5 | 87% |
| April | 19.1°C | 18 km/h | 3 | 93% |
| May | 22.1°C | 18 km/h | 3 | 97% |
| June | 25°C | 18 km/h | 0 | 100% |
| July | 27.5°C | 18 km/h | 0 | 100% |
| August | 28.2°C | 19 km/h | 0 | 100% |
| September | 26.9°C | 19 km/h | 0 | 100% |
| October | 23.4°C | 18 km/h | 0 | 100% |
| November | 20.3°C | 17 km/h | 4 | 92% |
| December | 16.5°C | 17 km/h | 5 | 87% |
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 Alexandria
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What you can do here
- Fly Alexandria in an FPV drone or as a gull, from 31.202°, 29.948° — 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 Alexandria.