🇲🇽 Oaxaca, Mexico

Oaxaca is a mid-sized city in Mexico. Real-Earth coordinates 17.083°, -96.670°, population 530,728. 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.

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Activity in Oaxaca

Flying conditions in Oaxaca

Flying weather in Oaxaca through the year

November in Oaxaca averages 17.7°C with winds around 11 km/h, and roughly 95% of days are good for flying — about 3 days see rain.

Fewest weather restrictions: January, December, February; June is the most restricted at 18% usable days. (That's about wind and rain, not comfort — check the temperatures below.)

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 Oaxaca

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What you can do here

• Fly Oaxaca in an FPV drone or as a gull, from 17.083°, -96.670° — 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 Oaxaca.

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