🇿🇦 Durban, South Africa
Durban is a major city of South Africa. Real-Earth coordinates -29.861°, 31.011°, population 2,729,000. A river or a coast to follow, tall enough buildings to make a proximity line interesting, and open airspace once you clear the centre. 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 Durban last 30 days, AIS via the Skydex feed
312 vessels on 30 days · 1,994 sightings (one vessel on one day) · type known for 269 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 Durban within 120 km, heard by the Skydex receiver network
- King Shaka International Airport (DUR) · 29 km · 718 flights in 30 days
- Pietermaritzburg Airport (PZB) · 64 km · 50 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 Durban
Flying conditions in Durban
Sunrise 04:54 · Sunset 18:25 · 13 h 32 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 Durban through the year
November in Durban averages 21.9°C with winds around 21 km/h, and roughly 63% of days are good for flying — about 11 days see rain.
Fewest weather restrictions: June, May, July; February is the most restricted at 54% usable days. (That's about wind and rain, not comfort — check the temperatures below.)
| Month | Avg temp | Wind | Rain days | Good to fly |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 25°C | 20 km/h | 13 | 63% |
| February | 25°C | 19 km/h | 16 | 54% |
| March | 24.2°C | 18 km/h | 12 | 73% |
| April | 22°C | 17 km/h | 13 | 73% |
| May | 19.6°C | 16 km/h | 5 | 87% |
| June | 18.3°C | 16 km/h | 3 | 92% |
| July | 17.1°C | 17 km/h | 5 | 86% |
| August | 19.2°C | 21 km/h | 2 | 84% |
| September | 19.2°C | 21 km/h | 13 | 63% |
| October | 19.9°C | 22 km/h | 11 | 58% |
| November | 21.9°C | 21 km/h | 11 | 63% |
| December | 23.9°C | 20 km/h | 15 | 65% |
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 Durban
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What you can do here
- Fly Durban in an FPV drone or as a gull, from -29.861°, 31.011° — 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 Durban.