🇿🇦 Welkom, South Africa
Welkom is a mid-sized city in South Africa. Real-Earth coordinates -27.970°, 26.730°, population 431,944. Quiet airspace and open terrain a couple of minutes out — a forgiving place to learn the sticks before you take them somewhere tighter. 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 Welkom last 30 days, by the Skydex receiver network
145 aircraft on 17 days · 453 sightings (one aircraft on one day).
Counted from what our volunteers’ antennas received — no other tracker involved. About the network · the stations · add yours
Activity in Welkom
Flying conditions in Welkom
Sunrise 05:14 · Sunset 18:39 · 13 h 25 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 Welkom through the year
November in Welkom averages 20.7°C with winds around 19 km/h, and roughly 73% of days are good for flying — about 9 days see rain.
Fewest weather restrictions: June, July, May; April is the most restricted at 67% usable days. (That's about wind and rain, not comfort — check the temperatures below.)
| Month | Avg temp | Wind | Rain days | Good to fly |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 23.6°C | 19 km/h | 7 | 85% |
| February | 22.9°C | 17 km/h | 11 | 77% |
| March | 19.9°C | 13 km/h | 11 | 71% |
| April | 16°C | 14 km/h | 15 | 67% |
| May | 12.3°C | 13 km/h | 2 | 92% |
| June | 10.4°C | 14 km/h | 2 | 95% |
| July | 9.9°C | 14 km/h | 1 | 95% |
| August | 13.3°C | 17 km/h | 3 | 90% |
| September | 17.1°C | 21 km/h | 6 | 80% |
| October | 18.9°C | 19 km/h | 5 | 81% |
| November | 20.7°C | 19 km/h | 9 | 73% |
| December | 23.1°C | 19 km/h | 10 | 69% |
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 Welkom
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What you can do here
- Fly Welkom in an FPV drone or as a gull, from -27.970°, 26.730° — 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 Welkom.