🇪🇸 Las Palmas, Spain
Las Palmas is a mid-sized city in Spain. Real-Earth coordinates 28.100°, -15.430°, population 378,495. 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.
Seen on the water near Las Palmas last 30 days, AIS via the Skydex feed
379 vessels on 29 days · 930 sightings (one vessel on one day) · type known for 202 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 Las Palmas within 120 km, heard by the Skydex receiver network
- Gran Canaria Airport (LPA) · 19 km · 3,167 flights in 30 days
- Tenerife Norte Airport (TFN) · 99 km · 695 flights in 30 days
- Tenerife South Airport (TFS) · 112 km · 3,051 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 Las Palmas
Flying conditions in Las Palmas
Sunrise 07:20 · Sunset 18:10 · 10 h 51 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 Las Palmas through the year
November in Las Palmas averages 21.3°C with winds around 15 km/h, and roughly 75% of days are good for flying — about 10 days see rain.
Fewest weather restrictions: July, August, June; March 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 | 17.2°C | 18 km/h | 10 | 74% |
| February | 17.6°C | 17 km/h | 8 | 79% |
| March | 17°C | 20 km/h | 20 | 39% |
| April | 18.2°C | 19 km/h | 15 | 57% |
| May | 19.5°C | 18 km/h | 10 | 82% |
| June | 21°C | 20 km/h | 5 | 93% |
| July | 23.3°C | 20 km/h | 3 | 94% |
| August | 23.8°C | 19 km/h | 4 | 94% |
| September | 22.9°C | 17 km/h | 8 | 83% |
| October | 22.1°C | 15 km/h | 7 | 89% |
| November | 21.3°C | 15 km/h | 10 | 75% |
| December | 18.1°C | 18 km/h | 13 | 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 Las Palmas
- CrimsonOwl12 visited Wings
🛩 Where to fly a drone in Spain →
What you can do here
- Fly Las Palmas in an FPV drone or as a gull, from 28.100°, -15.430° — 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 Las Palmas.