🇪🇹 Dire Dawa, Ethiopia
Dire Dawa is a mid-sized city in Ethiopia. Real-Earth coordinates 9.590°, 41.860°, population 252,279. 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.
Activity in Dire Dawa
Flying conditions in Dire Dawa
Sunrise 06:05 · Sunset 17:47 · 11 h 43 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 Dire Dawa through the year
November in Dire Dawa averages 22.4°C with winds around 16 km/h, and roughly 97% of days are good for flying — about 2 days see rain.
Fewest weather restrictions: January, February, November; July is the most restricted at 17% usable days. (That's about wind and rain, not comfort — check the temperatures below.)
| Month | Avg temp | Wind | Rain days | Good to fly |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 21°C | 15 km/h | 0 | 100% |
| February | 23.2°C | 16 km/h | 1 | 98% |
| March | 23.7°C | 17 km/h | 12 | 63% |
| April | 25.1°C | 20 km/h | 7 | 80% |
| May | 26.4°C | 22 km/h | 5 | 76% |
| June | 27°C | 32 km/h | 0 | 27% |
| July | 26.1°C | 33 km/h | 7 | 17% |
| August | 23.5°C | 25 km/h | 20 | 32% |
| September | 24.5°C | 22 km/h | 12 | 68% |
| October | 24.2°C | 17 km/h | 5 | 92% |
| November | 22.4°C | 16 km/h | 2 | 97% |
| December | 21.2°C | 15 km/h | 3 | 95% |
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 Dire Dawa
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What you can do here
- Fly Dire Dawa in an FPV drone or as a gull, from 9.590°, 41.860° — 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 Dire Dawa.