🇲🇰 Skopje, North Macedonia
Skopje is the capital of North Macedonia. Real-Earth coordinates 42.000°, 21.433°, population 494,087. 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.
Heard over Skopje last 30 days, by the Skydex receiver network
3,261 aircraft on 18 days · 8,644 sightings (one aircraft on one day) · type known for 3,245 of them.
Counted from what our volunteers’ antennas received — no other tracker involved. About the network · the stations · add yours
Airports near Skopje within 120 km, heard by the Skydex receiver network
- Skopje Alexander the Great Airport (SKP) · 16 km · 651 flights in 30 days
- Priština International Airport (PRN) · 72 km · 992 flights in 30 days
- Ohrid St. Paul the Apostle Airport (OHD) · 108 km · 86 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 Skopje
Flying conditions in Skopje
Sunrise 06:19 · Sunset 16:17 · 9 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 03:03 UTC and refreshed live in your browser. Weather by Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0).
Flying weather in Skopje through the year
November in Skopje averages 7.5°C with winds around 7 km/h, and roughly 67% of days are good for flying — about 11 days see rain.
Fewest weather restrictions: July, August, June; November is the most restricted at 67% usable days. (That's about wind and rain, not comfort — check the temperatures below.)
| Month | Avg temp | Wind | Rain days | Good to fly |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 2°C | 7 km/h | 8 | 68% |
| February | 4.5°C | 8 km/h | 6 | 79% |
| March | 9.1°C | 9 km/h | 8 | 77% |
| April | 12.8°C | 10 km/h | 9 | 82% |
| May | 17°C | 10 km/h | 7 | 84% |
| June | 24.9°C | 11 km/h | 5 | 90% |
| July | 26.3°C | 11 km/h | 2 | 97% |
| August | 26.3°C | 12 km/h | 3 | 95% |
| September | 20.8°C | 9 km/h | 7 | 85% |
| October | 12.9°C | 8 km/h | 8 | 81% |
| November | 7.5°C | 7 km/h | 11 | 67% |
| December | 3.6°C | 6 km/h | 9 | 76% |
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 Skopje
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Where to fly a drone near Skopje
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What you can do here
- Fly Skopje in an FPV drone or as a gull, from 42.000°, 21.433° — 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 Skopje.