🇯🇵 Hakodate, Japan

Hakodate is a mid-sized city in Japan. Real-Earth coordinates 41.795°, 140.740°, population 302,984. 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.

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Activity in Hakodate

Flying conditions in Hakodate

Flying weather in Hakodate through the year

November in Hakodate averages 5.7°C with winds around 20 km/h, and roughly 60% of days are good for flying — about 13 days see rain.

Fewest weather restrictions: October, September, May; January is the most restricted at 26% usable days. (That's about wind and rain, not comfort — check the temperatures below.)

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 Hakodate

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What you can do here

• Fly Hakodate in an FPV drone or as a gull, from 41.795°, 140.740° — 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 Hakodate.

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