🇵🇭 General Santos, Philippines
General Santos is a mid-sized city in Philippines. Real-Earth coordinates 6.111°, 125.175°, population 950,530. 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 General Santos last 30 days, by the Skydex receiver network
402 aircraft on 31 days · 1,254 sightings (one aircraft on one day) · type known for 399 of them.
Counted from what our volunteers’ antennas received — no other tracker involved. About the network · the stations · add yours
Airports near General Santos within 120 km, heard by the Skydex receiver network
- Tambler Airport (GES) · 11 km · 232 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 General Santos
Flying conditions in General Santos
Sunrise 05:27 · Sunset 17:19 · 11 h 52 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 General Santos through the year
November in General Santos averages 27.8°C with winds around 15 km/h, and roughly 50% of days are good for flying — about 21 days see rain.
Fewest weather restrictions: July, February, January; May is the most restricted at 26% usable days. (That's about wind and rain, not comfort — check the temperatures below.)
| Month | Avg temp | Wind | Rain days | Good to fly |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 27.3°C | 15 km/h | 20 | 50% |
| February | 27.2°C | 16 km/h | 20 | 52% |
| March | 27.8°C | 17 km/h | 18 | 48% |
| April | 28.1°C | 17 km/h | 22 | 43% |
| May | 27.6°C | 13 km/h | 26 | 26% |
| June | 27.2°C | 13 km/h | 24 | 37% |
| July | 27.4°C | 15 km/h | 19 | 62% |
| August | 26.8°C | 13 km/h | 24 | 29% |
| September | 27.2°C | 15 km/h | 21 | 40% |
| October | 27.4°C | 14 km/h | 23 | 44% |
| November | 27.8°C | 15 km/h | 21 | 50% |
| December | 27.1°C | 13 km/h | 22 | 45% |
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 General Santos
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What you can do here
- Fly General Santos in an FPV drone or as a gull, from 6.111°, 125.175° — 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 General Santos.