🇸🇿 Mbabane, eSwatini
Mbabane is the capital of eSwatini. Real-Earth coordinates -26.317°, 31.133°, population 90,138. The busiest sky in the country — monuments to circle, other pilots in the air and the city's own tower frequency on the radio. 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 Mbabane last 30 days, by the Skydex receiver network
146 aircraft on 16 days · 329 sightings (one aircraft on one day) · type known for 145 of them.
Counted from what our volunteers’ antennas received — no other tracker involved. About the network · the stations · add yours
Airports near Mbabane within 120 km, heard by the Skydex receiver network
- Kruger Mpumalanga International Airport (MQP) · 104 km · 54 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 Mbabane
Flying conditions in Mbabane
Sunrise 04:59 · Sunset 18:19 · 13 h 20 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 Mbabane through the year
November in Mbabane averages 18.3°C with winds around 16 km/h, and roughly 45% of days are good for flying — about 19 days see rain.
Fewest weather restrictions: July, August, May; December is the most restricted at 34% usable days. (That's about wind and rain, not comfort — check the temperatures below.)
| Month | Avg temp | Wind | Rain days | Good to fly |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 19.7°C | 15 km/h | 23 | 44% |
| February | 20.1°C | 14 km/h | 19 | 45% |
| March | 18.8°C | 13 km/h | 23 | 40% |
| April | 17.2°C | 15 km/h | 18 | 58% |
| May | 15.1°C | 17 km/h | 5 | 77% |
| June | 13.6°C | 18 km/h | 4 | 77% |
| July | 13.6°C | 18 km/h | 3 | 90% |
| August | 16.4°C | 18 km/h | 5 | 89% |
| September | 17.1°C | 19 km/h | 11 | 70% |
| October | 17°C | 17 km/h | 16 | 61% |
| November | 18.3°C | 16 km/h | 19 | 45% |
| December | 20°C | 16 km/h | 22 | 34% |
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 Mbabane
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What you can do here
- Fly Mbabane in an FPV drone or as a gull, from -26.317°, 31.133° — 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 Mbabane.