🇿🇦 Johannesburg, South Africa
Johannesburg is a major city of South Africa. Real-Earth coordinates -26.168°, 28.028°, population 3,435,000. 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.
Heard over Johannesburg last 30 days, by the Skydex receiver network
711 aircraft on 17 days · 2,570 sightings (one aircraft on one day) · type known for 662 of them.
Counted from what our volunteers’ antennas received — no other tracker involved. About the network · the stations · add yours
Airports near Johannesburg within 120 km, heard by the Skydex receiver network
- OR Tambo International Airport (JNB) · 22 km · 4,009 flights in 30 days
- Lanseria Airport (HLA) · 27 km · 178 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 Johannesburg
Flying conditions in Johannesburg
Sunrise 05:12 · Sunset 18:31 · 13 h 19 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 Johannesburg through the year
November in Johannesburg averages 18.6°C with winds around 17 km/h, and roughly 55% of days are good for flying — about 17 days see rain.
Fewest weather restrictions: July, August, June; March is the most restricted at 50% usable days. (That's about wind and rain, not comfort — check the temperatures below.)
| Month | Avg temp | Wind | Rain days | Good to fly |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 20.5°C | 14 km/h | 15 | 69% |
| February | 20.2°C | 13 km/h | 17 | 59% |
| March | 17.9°C | 12 km/h | 21 | 50% |
| April | 15.6°C | 13 km/h | 13 | 63% |
| May | 12.8°C | 12 km/h | 2 | 92% |
| June | 10.9°C | 13 km/h | 2 | 95% |
| July | 11.2°C | 13 km/h | 0 | 98% |
| August | 14.4°C | 17 km/h | 1 | 97% |
| September | 17.6°C | 21 km/h | 6 | 77% |
| October | 18.2°C | 19 km/h | 7 | 76% |
| November | 18.6°C | 17 km/h | 17 | 55% |
| December | 20.2°C | 15 km/h | 18 | 56% |
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 Johannesburg
- CosmicBear98 visited Globe
- CrimsonOwl87 visited Globe
- CosmicBear71 visited Wings
- CrimsonOwl49 visited Globe
- QuickCat77 visited Globe
Jason Hodgkiss visited Globe
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What you can do here
- Fly Johannesburg in an FPV drone or as a gull, from -26.168°, 28.028° — 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 Johannesburg.