🇿🇦 Cape Town, South Africa
Cape Town is the capital of South Africa. Real-Earth coordinates -33.918°, 18.433°, population 3,215,000. 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.
Seen on the water near Cape Town last 30 days, AIS via the Skydex feed
328 vessels on 30 days · 1,765 sightings (one vessel on one day) · type known for 236 of them.
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
Airports near Cape Town within 120 km, heard by the Skydex receiver network
- Cape Town International Airport (CPT) · 16 km · 1,478 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 Cape Town
Flying conditions in Cape Town
Sunrise 05:37 · Sunset 19:23 · 13 h 47 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 Cape Town through the year
November in Cape Town averages 20.6°C with winds around 26 km/h, and roughly 72% of days are good for flying — about 3 days see rain.
Fewest weather restrictions: March, May, December; August is the most restricted at 68% usable days. (That's about wind and rain, not comfort — check the temperatures below.)
| Month | Avg temp | Wind | Rain days | Good to fly |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 22.3°C | 22 km/h | 2 | 81% |
| February | 22.6°C | 22 km/h | 2 | 82% |
| March | 21.9°C | 20 km/h | 4 | 90% |
| April | 18.8°C | 17 km/h | 6 | 80% |
| May | 15.5°C | 17 km/h | 7 | 84% |
| June | 13.5°C | 17 km/h | 12 | 68% |
| July | 12.2°C | 16 km/h | 9 | 75% |
| August | 12.4°C | 21 km/h | 13 | 68% |
| September | 14.7°C | 21 km/h | 4 | 83% |
| October | 17.9°C | 23 km/h | 4 | 77% |
| November | 20.6°C | 26 km/h | 3 | 72% |
| December | 21.4°C | 23 km/h | 5 | 84% |
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 Cape Town
- CrimsonCat19 visited Wings
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Paganthal visited Terra
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Where to fly a drone near Cape Town
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What you can do here
- Fly Cape Town in an FPV drone or as a gull, from -33.918°, 18.433° — 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 Cape Town.