🇲🇽 Matamoros, Mexico
Matamoros is a mid-sized city in Mexico. Real-Earth coordinates 25.880°, -97.500°, population 538,785. 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 Matamoros last 30 days, by the Skydex receiver network
1,556 aircraft on 25 days · 2,972 sightings (one aircraft on one day) · type known for 1,554 of them.
Counted from what our volunteers’ antennas received — no other tracker involved. About the network · the stations · add yours
Seen on the water near Matamoros last 30 days, AIS via the Skydex feed
40 vessels on 26 days · 137 sightings (one vessel on one day) · type known for 25 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 Matamoros within 120 km, heard by the Skydex receiver network
- Brownsville South Padre Island International Airport (BRO) · 8 km · 250 flights in 30 days
- Valley International Airport (HRL) · 42 km · 474 flights in 30 days
- General Lucio Blanco International Airport (REX) · 74 km · 4 flights in 30 days
- Mc Allen Miller International Airport (MFE) · 81 km · 580 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 Matamoros
Flying conditions in Matamoros
Sunrise 06:44 · Sunset 17:42 · 10 h 58 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 Matamoros through the year
November in Matamoros averages 23.5°C with winds around 20 km/h, and roughly 80% of days are good for flying — about 6 days see rain.
Fewest weather restrictions: February, March, October; September is the most restricted at 50% 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 | 21 km/h | 9 | 74% |
| February | 19.4°C | 22 km/h | 5 | 89% |
| March | 22.9°C | 23 km/h | 3 | 82% |
| April | 24.5°C | 23 km/h | 6 | 73% |
| May | 27°C | 21 km/h | 14 | 63% |
| June | 28.8°C | 21 km/h | 16 | 63% |
| July | 29°C | 21 km/h | 14 | 70% |
| August | 29.5°C | 18 km/h | 14 | 73% |
| September | 27.6°C | 18 km/h | 17 | 50% |
| October | 25.9°C | 19 km/h | 8 | 82% |
| November | 23.5°C | 20 km/h | 6 | 80% |
| December | 20.3°C | 19 km/h | 9 | 77% |
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 Matamoros
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What you can do here
- Fly Matamoros in an FPV drone or as a gull, from 25.880°, -97.500° — 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 Matamoros.