🇸🇦 Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Riyadh is the capital of Saudi Arabia. Real-Earth coordinates 24.634°, 46.720°, population 4,465,000. 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 Riyadh last 30 days, by the Skydex receiver network
2 aircraft on 2 days.
Counted from what our volunteers’ antennas received — no other tracker involved. About the network · the stations · add yours
Airports near Riyadh within 120 km, heard by the Skydex receiver network
- King Khaled International Airport (RUH) · 36 km · 724 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 Riyadh
Visitors came from 2 countries this month.
“Pilots” counts signed-in players; “visits” counts sessions, not unique people.
Flying conditions in Riyadh
Sunrise 06:06 · Sunset 17:07 · 11 h 01 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 00:41 UTC and refreshed live in your browser. Weather by Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0).
Flying weather in Riyadh through the year
November in Riyadh averages 23.2°C with winds around 11 km/h, and roughly 98% of days are good for flying — about 1 days see rain.
Fewest weather restrictions: May, June, September; August is the most restricted at 85% usable days. (That's about wind and rain, not comfort — check the temperatures below.)
| Month | Avg temp | Wind | Rain days | Good to fly |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 15.5°C | 10 km/h | 2 | 97% |
| February | 19.3°C | 11 km/h | 3 | 93% |
| March | 22°C | 13 km/h | 6 | 87% |
| April | 28.6°C | 13 km/h | 4 | 93% |
| May | 34.8°C | 13 km/h | 0 | 100% |
| June | 37.9°C | 13 km/h | 0 | 100% |
| July | 38.6°C | 16 km/h | 0 | 92% |
| August | 38.1°C | 20 km/h | 0 | 85% |
| September | 34.9°C | 17 km/h | 0 | 100% |
| October | 28.9°C | 15 km/h | 0 | 98% |
| November | 23.2°C | 11 km/h | 1 | 98% |
| December | 17.6°C | 10 km/h | 1 | 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 Riyadh
- BraveCat48 visited Wings
- CrimsonBear3 visited Wings
- PixelOwl35 visited Wings
- SilentWolf10 visited Wings
Yazeed المزيد visited Globe
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What you can do here
- Fly Riyadh in an FPV drone or as a gull, from 24.634°, 46.720° — 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 Riyadh.