🇦🇪 Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Dubai is a major city of United Arab Emirates. Real-Earth coordinates 25.215°, 55.287°, population 1,379,000. 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 Dubai last 30 days, by the Skydex receiver network
3,077 aircraft on 31 days · 27,419 sightings (one aircraft on one day) · type known for 3,049 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 Dubai last 30 days, AIS via the Skydex feed
315 vessels on 14 days · 867 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 Dubai within 120 km, heard by the Skydex receiver network
- Dubai International Airport (DXB) · 9 km · 13,652 flights in 30 days
- Sharjah International Airport (SHJ) · 26 km · 3,330 flights in 30 days
- Al Maktoum International Airport (DWC) · 38 km · 713 flights in 30 days
- Ras Al Khaimah International Airport (RKT) · 79 km · 118 flights in 30 days
- Fujairah International Airport (FJR) · 105 km · 3 flights in 30 days
- Abu Dhabi International Airport (AUH) · 108 km · 8,990 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 Dubai
Visitors came from 4 countries this month.
“Pilots” counts signed-in players; “visits” counts sessions, not unique people.
Flying conditions in Dubai
Sunrise 06:32 · Sunset 17:32 · 10 h 60 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 Dubai through the year
November in Dubai averages 26.2°C with winds around 15 km/h, and roughly 100% of days are good for flying — about 0 days see rain.
Fewest weather restrictions: February, May, June; 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 | 19.9°C | 16 km/h | 1 | 97% |
| February | 21.8°C | 16 km/h | 2 | 100% |
| March | 24.2°C | 19 km/h | 6 | 85% |
| April | 27.2°C | 17 km/h | 1 | 97% |
| May | 31.2°C | 17 km/h | 0 | 100% |
| June | 33.1°C | 17 km/h | 0 | 100% |
| July | 35.3°C | 18 km/h | 0 | 98% |
| August | 35.8°C | 22 km/h | 0 | 92% |
| September | 33.2°C | 20 km/h | 0 | 97% |
| October | 30.6°C | 19 km/h | 0 | 100% |
| November | 26.2°C | 15 km/h | 0 | 100% |
| December | 22.1°C | 15 km/h | 1 | 95% |
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 Dubai
Quoc visited Wings
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What you can do here
- Fly Dubai in an FPV drone or as a gull, from 25.215°, 55.287° — 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 Dubai.