🇲🇴 Macau, Macau S.A.R
Macau is a mid-sized city in Macau S.A.R. Real-Earth coordinates 22.189°, 113.544°, population 568,700. 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 Macau last 30 days, by the Skydex receiver network
13 aircraft on 1 day.
Counted from what our volunteers’ antennas received — no other tracker involved. About the network · the stations · add yours
Seen on the water near Macau last 30 days, AIS via the Skydex feed
1,653 vessels on 30 days · 7,407 sightings (one vessel on one day) · type known for 1,183 of them.
Counted from the AIS positions the Skydex feed received here — sampled once a day in local daytime, plus whenever pilots fly here — not a port register. Ship tracking
Airports near Macau within 120 km, heard by the Skydex receiver network
- Macau International Airport (MFM) · 7 km · 337 flights in 30 days
- Zhuhai Airport (ZUH) · 27 km · 3 flights in 30 days
- Chek Lap Kok International Airport (HKG) · 40 km · 7,941 flights in 30 days
- Shenzhen Bao'an International Airport (SZX) · 57 km · 1,400 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 Macau
Flying conditions in Macau
Sunrise 06:35 · Sunset 17:44 · 11 h 09 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 Macau through the year
November in Macau averages 21.6°C with winds around 20 km/h, and roughly 77% of days are good for flying — about 7 days see rain.
Fewest weather restrictions: December, January, February; July is the most restricted at 21% usable days. (That's about wind and rain, not comfort — check the temperatures below.)
| Month | Avg temp | Wind | Rain days | Good to fly |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 16.3°C | 17 km/h | 4 | 90% |
| February | 18.3°C | 17 km/h | 5 | 86% |
| March | 19.9°C | 18 km/h | 9 | 73% |
| April | 24°C | 19 km/h | 17 | 62% |
| May | 26.5°C | 17 km/h | 23 | 40% |
| June | 28°C | 18 km/h | 26 | 22% |
| July | 28.7°C | 19 km/h | 27 | 21% |
| August | 28.3°C | 17 km/h | 25 | 29% |
| September | 27.8°C | 20 km/h | 23 | 37% |
| October | 26°C | 20 km/h | 9 | 73% |
| November | 21.6°C | 20 km/h | 7 | 77% |
| December | 18.3°C | 17 km/h | 3 | 94% |
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 Macau
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What you can do here
- Fly Macau in an FPV drone or as a gull, from 22.189°, 113.544° — 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 Macau.