🇲🇺 Port Louis, Mauritius
Port Louis is the capital of Mauritius. Real-Earth coordinates -20.167°, 57.500°, population 595,491. 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 Port Louis within 120 km, heard by the Skydex receiver network
- Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam International Airport (MRU) · 35 km · 424 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 Port Louis
“Pilots” counts signed-in players; “visits” counts sessions, not unique people.
Flying conditions in Port Louis
Sunrise 05:23 · Sunset 18:24 · 13 h 01 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 Port Louis through the year
November in Port Louis averages 25.5°C with winds around 20 km/h, and roughly 53% of days are good for flying — about 16 days see rain.
Fewest weather restrictions: May, July, June; February is the most restricted at 29% 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°C | 21 km/h | 20 | 44% |
| February | 27.6°C | 19 km/h | 25 | 29% |
| March | 27°C | 19 km/h | 22 | 42% |
| April | 26.4°C | 18 km/h | 20 | 57% |
| May | 24.9°C | 21 km/h | 12 | 79% |
| June | 23.2°C | 21 km/h | 11 | 73% |
| July | 22.3°C | 22 km/h | 9 | 75% |
| August | 22.1°C | 27 km/h | 7 | 52% |
| September | 22.9°C | 26 km/h | 8 | 62% |
| October | 24°C | 25 km/h | 7 | 65% |
| November | 25.5°C | 20 km/h | 16 | 53% |
| December | 26.5°C | 21 km/h | 18 | 56% |
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 Port Louis
- CosmicFalcon52 visited Wings
- SilentWolf35 visited Globe
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What you can do here
- Fly Port Louis in an FPV drone or as a gull, from -20.167°, 57.500° — 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 Port Louis.