🇵🇪 Chimbote, Peru
Chimbote is a mid-sized city in Peru. Real-Earth coordinates -9.070°, -78.570°, population 349,846. 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 Chimbote
Flying conditions in Chimbote
Sunrise 05:43 · Sunset 18:13 · 12 h 30 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 Chimbote through the year
November in Chimbote averages 19.3°C with winds around 20 km/h, and roughly 100% of days are good for flying — about 0 days see rain.
Conditions stay fairly even here — usable flying days range from 89% in February to 100% in March, so the season matters less than the day.
| Month | Avg temp | Wind | Rain days | Good to fly |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 22.6°C | 18 km/h | 4 | 90% |
| February | 24.9°C | 16 km/h | 4 | 89% |
| March | 24.6°C | 18 km/h | 1 | 100% |
| April | 22.2°C | 19 km/h | 2 | 100% |
| May | 21.2°C | 18 km/h | 0 | 100% |
| June | 21.2°C | 18 km/h | 0 | 100% |
| July | 19.7°C | 17 km/h | 1 | 100% |
| August | 17.4°C | 21 km/h | 0 | 100% |
| September | 17.5°C | 20 km/h | 0 | 100% |
| October | 18.3°C | 21 km/h | 0 | 100% |
| November | 19.3°C | 20 km/h | 0 | 100% |
| December | 20.4°C | 20 km/h | 0 | 98% |
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 Chimbote
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What you can do here
- Fly Chimbote in an FPV drone or as a gull, from -9.070°, -78.570° — 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 Chimbote.