🇹🇴 Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Nuku'alofa is the capital of Tonga. Real-Earth coordinates -21.139°, -175.221°, population 42,620. 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.
Seen on the water near Nuku'alofa last 30 days, AIS via the Skydex feed
11 vessels on 16 days · 49 sightings (one vessel on one day) · type known for 8 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 Nuku'alofa within 120 km, heard by the Skydex receiver network
- Fua'amotu International Airport (TBU) · 14 km · 35 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 Nuku'alofa
“Pilots” counts signed-in players; “visits” counts sessions, not unique people.
Flying conditions in Nuku'alofa
Sunrise 05:53 · Sunset 18:56 · 13 h 03 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 Nuku'alofa through the year
November in Nuku'alofa averages 24.7°C with winds around 27 km/h, and roughly 18% of days are good for flying — about 24 days see rain.
Fewest weather restrictions: June, September, April; November is the most restricted at 18% usable days. (That's about wind and rain, not comfort — check the temperatures below.)
| Month | Avg temp | Wind | Rain days | Good to fly |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 27.1°C | 20 km/h | 21 | 47% |
| February | 27.5°C | 22 km/h | 26 | 23% |
| March | 27°C | 22 km/h | 22 | 42% |
| April | 26.6°C | 24 km/h | 18 | 55% |
| May | 24.4°C | 29 km/h | 17 | 42% |
| June | 23°C | 26 km/h | 9 | 58% |
| July | 21.7°C | 28 km/h | 10 | 49% |
| August | 22.2°C | 29 km/h | 13 | 44% |
| September | 22.1°C | 28 km/h | 14 | 57% |
| October | 23.5°C | 30 km/h | 19 | 32% |
| November | 24.7°C | 27 km/h | 24 | 18% |
| December | 26.3°C | 23 km/h | 21 | 37% |
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 Nuku'alofa
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What you can do here
- Fly Nuku'alofa in an FPV drone or as a gull, from -21.139°, -175.221° — 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 Nuku'alofa.