🇰🇷 Daejeon, South Korea
Daejeon is a major city of South Korea. Real-Earth coordinates 36.337°, 127.423°, population 1,468,000. 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 Daejeon last 30 days, by the Skydex receiver network
1,656 aircraft on 31 days · 9,728 sightings (one aircraft on one day) · type known for 1,649 of them.
Counted from what our volunteers’ antennas received — no other tracker involved. About the network · the stations · add yours
Airports near Daejeon within 120 km, heard by the Skydex receiver network
- Cheongju International Airport (CJJ) · 43 km · 1,715 flights in 30 days
- Gunsan Airport (KUV) · 87 km · 77 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 Daejeon
Flying conditions in Daejeon
Sunrise 07:02 · Sunset 17:25 · 10 h 22 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 Daejeon through the year
November in Daejeon averages 8.3°C with winds around 14 km/h, and roughly 85% of days are good for flying — about 7 days see rain.
Fewest weather restrictions: November, April, March; January is the most restricted at 39% usable days. (That's about wind and rain, not comfort — check the temperatures below.)
| Month | Avg temp | Wind | Rain days | Good to fly |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | -1.8°C | 15 km/h | 2 | 39% |
| February | 0°C | 16 km/h | 2 | 57% |
| March | 6.7°C | 16 km/h | 8 | 79% |
| April | 13.2°C | 16 km/h | 8 | 80% |
| May | 18°C | 16 km/h | 10 | 71% |
| June | 23.2°C | 15 km/h | 11 | 72% |
| July | 27°C | 15 km/h | 16 | 49% |
| August | 27.6°C | 13 km/h | 14 | 73% |
| September | 23.8°C | 14 km/h | 14 | 63% |
| October | 15.9°C | 14 km/h | 10 | 74% |
| November | 8.3°C | 14 km/h | 7 | 85% |
| December | 0.7°C | 15 km/h | 3 | 73% |
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 Daejeon
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What you can do here
- Fly Daejeon in an FPV drone or as a gull, from 36.337°, 127.423° — 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 Daejeon.