🇳🇬 Benin City, Nigeria
Benin City is a major city of Nigeria. Real-Earth coordinates 6.342°, 5.618°, population 1,190,000. A river or a coast to follow, tall enough buildings to make a proximity line interesting, and open airspace once you clear the centre. 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.
Seen on the water near Benin City last 30 days, AIS via the Skydex feed
2 vessels on 2 days · type known for 1 of them.
📡 2 of them were heard by a Skydex volunteer receiver rather than by the upstream feed. Run one here
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
Activity in Benin City
“Pilots” counts signed-in players; “visits” counts sessions, not unique people.
Flying conditions in Benin City
Sunrise 06:25 · Sunset 18:17 · 11 h 51 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 Benin City through the year
November in Benin City averages 27.4°C with winds around 12 km/h, and roughly 85% of days are good for flying — about 8 days see rain.
Fewest weather restrictions: December, January, February; June is the most restricted at 8% usable days. (That's about wind and rain, not comfort — check the temperatures below.)
| Month | Avg temp | Wind | Rain days | Good to fly |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 28.8°C | 14 km/h | 2 | 92% |
| February | 28.9°C | 14 km/h | 8 | 86% |
| March | 28.6°C | 15 km/h | 14 | 61% |
| April | 27.5°C | 14 km/h | 18 | 55% |
| May | 26.9°C | 13 km/h | 25 | 31% |
| June | 25.6°C | 11 km/h | 30 | 8% |
| July | 24.7°C | 13 km/h | 29 | 16% |
| August | 24.5°C | 14 km/h | 29 | 34% |
| September | 24.7°C | 12 km/h | 29 | 20% |
| October | 25.2°C | 10 km/h | 23 | 37% |
| November | 27.4°C | 12 km/h | 8 | 85% |
| December | 28.4°C | 12 km/h | 4 | 95% |
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 Benin City
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What you can do here
- Fly Benin City in an FPV drone or as a gull, from 6.342°, 5.618° — 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 Benin City.