🇯🇵 Sapporo, Japan

Sapporo is a major city of Japan. Real-Earth coordinates 43.077°, 141.338°, population 2,544,000. 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.

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Activity in Sapporo

Flying conditions in Sapporo

Flying weather in Sapporo through the year

November in Sapporo averages 4.2°C with winds around 20 km/h, and roughly 52% of days are good for flying — about 18 days see rain.

Fewest weather restrictions: September, April, July; January is the most restricted at 0% 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 Sapporo

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What you can do here

• Fly Sapporo in an FPV drone or as a gull, from 43.077°, 141.338° — 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 Sapporo.

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