🇪🇬 Bur Said, Egypt
Bur Said is a mid-sized city in Egypt. Real-Earth coordinates 31.260°, 32.290°, population 623,864. 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 Bur Said last 30 days, AIS via the Skydex feed
19 vessels on 1 day · type known for 6 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
Activity in Bur Said
“Pilots” counts signed-in players; “visits” counts sessions, not unique people.
Flying conditions in Bur Said
Sunrise 06:14 · Sunset 16:54 · 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 01:44 UTC and refreshed live in your browser. Weather by Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0).
Flying weather in Bur Said through the year
November in Bur Said averages 20.9°C with winds around 18 km/h, and roughly 95% of days are good for flying — about 3 days see rain.
Conditions stay fairly even here — usable flying days range from 84% in May to 98% in June, so the season matters less than the day.
| Month | Avg temp | Wind | Rain days | Good to fly |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 15.7°C | 19 km/h | 2 | 89% |
| February | 15.9°C | 21 km/h | 2 | 91% |
| March | 17.2°C | 21 km/h | 3 | 85% |
| April | 19.5°C | 21 km/h | 3 | 90% |
| May | 22.4°C | 23 km/h | 2 | 84% |
| June | 25.4°C | 21 km/h | 1 | 98% |
| July | 28.2°C | 22 km/h | 0 | 94% |
| August | 28.7°C | 24 km/h | 0 | 97% |
| September | 27.1°C | 23 km/h | 0 | 93% |
| October | 24.1°C | 21 km/h | 0 | 95% |
| November | 20.9°C | 18 km/h | 3 | 95% |
| December | 16.8°C | 19 km/h | 2 | 94% |
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 Bur Said
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What you can do here
- Fly Bur Said in an FPV drone or as a gull, from 31.260°, 32.290° — 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 Bur Said.