🇲🇻 Malé, Maldives
Malé is the capital of Maldives. Real-Earth coordinates 4.172°, 73.509°, population 112,927. The busiest sky in the country — monuments to circle, other pilots in the air and the city's own tower frequency on the radio. 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.
Airports near Malé within 120 km, heard by the Skydex receiver network
- Malé International Airport (MLE) · 3 km · 605 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 Malé
“Pilots” counts signed-in players; “visits” counts sessions, not unique people.
Flying conditions in Malé
Sunrise 05:51 · Sunset 17:48 · 11 h 57 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 Malé through the year
November in Malé averages 27.5°C with winds around 21 km/h, and roughly 52% of days are good for flying — about 17 days see rain.
Fewest weather restrictions: March, February, April; May 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 | 27.1°C | 24 km/h | 13 | 53% |
| February | 27.6°C | 23 km/h | 7 | 71% |
| March | 28.1°C | 17 km/h | 9 | 82% |
| April | 28.8°C | 17 km/h | 15 | 65% |
| May | 28.6°C | 30 km/h | 19 | 35% |
| June | 28.4°C | 27 km/h | 15 | 50% |
| July | 28.4°C | 24 km/h | 14 | 60% |
| August | 27.9°C | 26 km/h | 16 | 53% |
| September | 27.9°C | 25 km/h | 18 | 47% |
| October | 28°C | 29 km/h | 15 | 42% |
| November | 27.5°C | 21 km/h | 17 | 52% |
| December | 27.6°C | 23 km/h | 12 | 61% |
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 Malé
- CosmicCat45 visited Globe
- CrimsonFox54 visited Globe
- CrimsonFox54 visited Wings
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What you can do here
- Fly Malé in an FPV drone or as a gull, from 4.172°, 73.509° — 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 Malé.