🇲🇽 Cancún, Mexico
Cancún is a mid-sized city in Mexico. Real-Earth coordinates 21.170°, -86.830°, population 542,043. 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.
Activity in Cancún
Flying conditions in Cancún
Flying weather in Cancún through the year
November in Cancún averages 25.3°C with winds around 15 km/h, and roughly 60% of days are good for flying — about 19 days see rain.
Fewest weather restrictions: February, January, April; September is the most restricted at 28% usable days. (That's about wind and rain, not comfort — check the temperatures below.)
| Month | Avg temp | Wind | Rain days | Good to fly |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 23.4°C | 17 km/h | 10 | 77% |
| February | 23.8°C | 17 km/h | 11 | 79% |
| March | 25.3°C | 19 km/h | 13 | 69% |
| April | 25.9°C | 19 km/h | 11 | 77% |
| May | 28°C | 18 km/h | 13 | 60% |
| June | 28.1°C | 19 km/h | 24 | 42% |
| July | 28.3°C | 15 km/h | 19 | 52% |
| August | 28.3°C | 13 km/h | 25 | 31% |
| September | 27.7°C | 14 km/h | 25 | 28% |
| October | 26.5°C | 16 km/h | 23 | 34% |
| November | 25.3°C | 15 km/h | 19 | 60% |
| December | 24.5°C | 16 km/h | 14 | 69% |
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 Cancún
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What you can do here
- Fly Cancún in an FPV drone or as a gull, from 21.170°, -86.830° — 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 Cancún.