🇦🇪 Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Abu Dhabi is the capital of United Arab Emirates. Real-Earth coordinates 24.467°, 54.367°, population 603,492. 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.
Heard over Abu Dhabi last 30 days, by the Skydex receiver network
3,126 aircraft on 31 days · 27,389 sightings (one aircraft on one day) · type known for 3,032 of them.
Counted from what our volunteers’ antennas received — no other tracker involved. About the network · the stations · add yours
Seen on the water near Abu Dhabi last 30 days, AIS via the Skydex feed
315 vessels on 14 days · 866 sightings (one vessel on one day) · type known for 60 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 Abu Dhabi within 120 km, heard by the Skydex receiver network
- Bateen (AZI) · 10 km · 133 flights in 30 days
- Abu Dhabi International Airport (AUH) · 29 km · 8,990 flights in 30 days
- Al Maktoum International Airport (DWC) · 93 km · 713 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 Abu Dhabi
Visitors came from 2 countries this month.
“Pilots” counts signed-in players; “visits” counts sessions, not unique people.
Flying conditions in Abu Dhabi
Sunrise 06:35 · Sunset 17:37 · 11 h 02 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 00:41 UTC and refreshed live in your browser. Weather by Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0).
Flying weather in Abu Dhabi through the year
November in Abu Dhabi averages 26.8°C with winds around 15 km/h, and roughly 100% of days are good for flying — about 0 days see rain.
Fewest weather restrictions: June, November, January; March is the most restricted at 85% usable days. (That's about wind and rain, not comfort — check the temperatures below.)
| Month | Avg temp | Wind | Rain days | Good to fly |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 20.1°C | 17 km/h | 0 | 98% |
| February | 21.9°C | 17 km/h | 2 | 98% |
| March | 24.2°C | 20 km/h | 5 | 85% |
| April | 27.8°C | 19 km/h | 2 | 97% |
| May | 31.6°C | 18 km/h | 0 | 98% |
| June | 33.1°C | 18 km/h | 0 | 100% |
| July | 35.1°C | 19 km/h | 0 | 98% |
| August | 36°C | 22 km/h | 0 | 89% |
| September | 33.9°C | 21 km/h | 0 | 95% |
| October | 31.1°C | 20 km/h | 0 | 92% |
| November | 26.8°C | 15 km/h | 0 | 100% |
| December | 22.5°C | 16 km/h | 1 | 97% |
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 Abu Dhabi
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What you can do here
- Fly Abu Dhabi in an FPV drone or as a gull, from 24.467°, 54.367° — 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 Abu Dhabi.