🇮🇳 Madurai, India
Madurai is a major city of India. Real-Earth coordinates 9.922°, 78.118°, population 1,294,000. 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.
Heard over Madurai last 30 days, by the Skydex receiver network
212 aircraft on 12 days · 306 sightings (one aircraft on one day) · type known for 211 of them.
Counted from what our volunteers’ antennas received — no other tracker involved. About the network · the stations · add yours
Airports near Madurai within 120 km, heard by the Skydex receiver network
- Madurai Airport (IXM) · 10 km · 45 flights in 30 days
- Tiruchirapally Civil Airport Airport (TRZ) · 114 km · 334 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 Madurai
Flying conditions in Madurai
Sunrise 06:10 · Sunset 17:52 · 11 h 42 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 Madurai through the year
November in Madurai averages 26.5°C with winds around 16 km/h, and roughly 45% of days are good for flying — about 19 days see rain.
Fewest weather restrictions: February, July, April; October is the most restricted at 26% usable days. (That's about wind and rain, not comfort — check the temperatures below.)
| Month | Avg temp | Wind | Rain days | Good to fly |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 25.3°C | 18 km/h | 8 | 79% |
| February | 27.1°C | 17 km/h | 4 | 93% |
| March | 29.4°C | 16 km/h | 7 | 81% |
| April | 31.6°C | 16 km/h | 8 | 82% |
| May | 30.9°C | 17 km/h | 13 | 68% |
| June | 31.3°C | 20 km/h | 13 | 72% |
| July | 31.4°C | 19 km/h | 9 | 86% |
| August | 29.4°C | 16 km/h | 14 | 61% |
| September | 30.8°C | 18 km/h | 9 | 75% |
| October | 27.3°C | 13 km/h | 24 | 26% |
| November | 26.5°C | 16 km/h | 19 | 45% |
| December | 26°C | 15 km/h | 12 | 74% |
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 Madurai
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What you can do here
- Fly Madurai in an FPV drone or as a gull, from 9.922°, 78.118° — 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 Madurai.