🇹🇿 Zanzibar, Tanzania
Zanzibar is a mid-sized city in Tanzania. Real-Earth coordinates -6.160°, 39.200°, population 403,658. 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.
Airports near Zanzibar within 120 km, heard by the Skydex receiver network
- Zanzibar Airport (ZNZ) · 7 km · 72 flights in 30 days
- Mwalimu Julius K. Nyerere International Airport (DAR) · 80 km · 119 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 Zanzibar
“Pilots” counts signed-in players; “visits” counts sessions, not unique people.
Flying conditions in Zanzibar
Sunrise 05:55 · Sunset 18:18 · 12 h 23 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 01:44 UTC and refreshed live in your browser. Weather by Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0).
Flying weather in Zanzibar through the year
November in Zanzibar averages 27.5°C with winds around 18 km/h, and roughly 62% of days are good for flying — about 23 days see rain.
Fewest weather restrictions: January, August, July; April is the most restricted at 17% usable days. (That's about wind and rain, not comfort — check the temperatures below.)
| Month | Avg temp | Wind | Rain days | Good to fly |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 28.4°C | 23 km/h | 10 | 81% |
| February | 28.8°C | 22 km/h | 15 | 70% |
| March | 27.7°C | 17 km/h | 23 | 44% |
| April | 26.2°C | 18 km/h | 30 | 17% |
| May | 25.9°C | 20 km/h | 27 | 21% |
| June | 24.9°C | 22 km/h | 25 | 50% |
| July | 24.6°C | 21 km/h | 14 | 71% |
| August | 24.9°C | 21 km/h | 15 | 81% |
| September | 25.4°C | 19 km/h | 18 | 70% |
| October | 26.3°C | 19 km/h | 22 | 60% |
| November | 27.5°C | 18 km/h | 23 | 62% |
| December | 27.7°C | 18 km/h | 22 | 53% |
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 Zanzibar
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What you can do here
- Fly Zanzibar in an FPV drone or as a gull, from -6.160°, 39.200° — 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 Zanzibar.