🇮🇳 Tiruchirappalli, India
Tiruchirappalli is a mid-sized city in India. Real-Earth coordinates 10.801°, 78.688°, population 951,000. 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.
Heard over Tiruchirappalli last 30 days, by the Skydex receiver network
117 aircraft on 12 days · 173 sightings (one aircraft on one day) · type known for 116 of them.
Counted from what our volunteers’ antennas received — no other tracker involved. About the network · the stations · add yours
Airports near Tiruchirappalli within 120 km, heard by the Skydex receiver network
- Tiruchirapally Civil Airport Airport (TRZ) · 5 km · 332 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 Tiruchirappalli
Flying conditions in Tiruchirappalli
Sunrise 06:09 · Sunset 17:49 · 11 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 Tiruchirappalli through the year
November in Tiruchirappalli averages 26.3°C with winds around 18 km/h, and roughly 48% of days are good for flying — about 18 days see rain.
Fewest weather restrictions: February, January, March; October is the most restricted at 35% usable days. (That's about wind and rain, not comfort — check the temperatures below.)
| Month | Avg temp | Wind | Rain days | Good to fly |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 24.6°C | 18 km/h | 7 | 85% |
| February | 26.3°C | 16 km/h | 2 | 96% |
| March | 29°C | 15 km/h | 7 | 82% |
| April | 31°C | 16 km/h | 7 | 82% |
| May | 30.8°C | 18 km/h | 11 | 74% |
| June | 31.4°C | 25 km/h | 9 | 70% |
| July | 31.4°C | 27 km/h | 9 | 54% |
| August | 29.6°C | 19 km/h | 15 | 53% |
| September | 30.6°C | 20 km/h | 10 | 75% |
| October | 27.6°C | 13 km/h | 22 | 35% |
| November | 26.3°C | 18 km/h | 18 | 48% |
| December | 25.4°C | 16 km/h | 13 | 65% |
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 Tiruchirappalli
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What you can do here
- Fly Tiruchirappalli in an FPV drone or as a gull, from 10.801°, 78.688° — 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 Tiruchirappalli.