🇿🇦 Pretoria, South Africa
Pretoria is the capital of South Africa. Real-Earth coordinates -25.705°, 28.227°, population 1,338,000. 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 Pretoria last 30 days, by the Skydex receiver network
713 aircraft on 17 days · 2,566 sightings (one aircraft on one day) · type known for 665 of them.
Counted from what our volunteers’ antennas received — no other tracker involved. About the network · the stations · add yours
Airports near Pretoria within 120 km, heard by the Skydex receiver network
- Lanseria Airport (HLA) · 40 km · 178 flights in 30 days
- OR Tambo International Airport (JNB) · 48 km · 4,009 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 Pretoria
Flying conditions in Pretoria
Sunrise 05:12 · Sunset 18:30 · 13 h 18 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 Pretoria through the year
November in Pretoria averages 20.9°C with winds around 16 km/h, and roughly 65% of days are good for flying — about 13 days see rain.
Fewest weather restrictions: July, August, June; March is the most restricted at 52% usable days. (That's about wind and rain, not comfort — check the temperatures below.)
| Month | Avg temp | Wind | Rain days | Good to fly |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 22.5°C | 14 km/h | 16 | 55% |
| February | 22.4°C | 13 km/h | 14 | 64% |
| March | 20.4°C | 12 km/h | 18 | 52% |
| April | 18°C | 12 km/h | 13 | 62% |
| May | 14.8°C | 11 km/h | 2 | 92% |
| June | 12.7°C | 12 km/h | 2 | 95% |
| July | 13.5°C | 13 km/h | 0 | 100% |
| August | 16.6°C | 15 km/h | 1 | 97% |
| September | 20.2°C | 18 km/h | 4 | 88% |
| October | 20.5°C | 18 km/h | 7 | 81% |
| November | 20.9°C | 16 km/h | 13 | 65% |
| December | 22.4°C | 14 km/h | 16 | 60% |
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 Pretoria
- CosmicWolf17 visited Wings
- CrimsonFalcon0 visited Globe
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What you can do here
- Fly Pretoria in an FPV drone or as a gull, from -25.705°, 28.227° — 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 Pretoria.