🇮🇳 Kolkata, India
Kolkata is one of the largest population centres on Earth. Real-Earth coordinates 22.570°, 88.369°, population 14,787,000. Skyline in every direction and an approach that never quite ends — one of the more demanding places to fly low and fast. 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 Kolkata within 120 km, heard by the Skydex receiver network
- Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International Airport (CCU) · 12 km · 357 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 Kolkata
“Pilots” counts signed-in players; “visits” counts sessions, not unique people.
Flying conditions in Kolkata
Sunrise 05:46 · Sunset 16:54 · 11 h 08 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 Kolkata through the year
November in Kolkata averages 24.7°C with winds around 9 km/h, and roughly 97% of days are good for flying — about 2 days see rain.
Fewest weather restrictions: January, November, December; July is the most restricted at 6% usable days. (That's about wind and rain, not comfort — check the temperatures below.)
| Month | Avg temp | Wind | Rain days | Good to fly |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 20.3°C | 9 km/h | 0 | 100% |
| February | 24.2°C | 10 km/h | 3 | 89% |
| March | 27.9°C | 13 km/h | 12 | 69% |
| April | 29.7°C | 14 km/h | 11 | 70% |
| May | 29.7°C | 14 km/h | 19 | 42% |
| June | 29.6°C | 13 km/h | 25 | 32% |
| July | 28.3°C | 14 km/h | 29 | 6% |
| August | 27.9°C | 14 km/h | 29 | 10% |
| September | 28.4°C | 14 km/h | 26 | 20% |
| October | 27.8°C | 11 km/h | 17 | 53% |
| November | 24.7°C | 9 km/h | 2 | 97% |
| December | 20.7°C | 8 km/h | 1 | 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 Kolkata
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What you can do here
- Fly Kolkata in an FPV drone or as a gull, from 22.570°, 88.369° — 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 Kolkata.