🇺🇸 El Paso, United States of America
El Paso is a mid-sized city in United States of America. Real-Earth coordinates 31.782°, -106.512°, population 753,000. 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.
Activity in El Paso
Flying conditions in El Paso
Flying weather in El Paso through the year
November in El Paso averages 13.6°C with winds around 15 km/h, and roughly 87% of days are good for flying — about 4 days see rain.
Fewest weather restrictions: December, August, May; April is the most restricted at 75% usable days. (That's about wind and rain, not comfort — check the temperatures below.)
| Month | Avg temp | Wind | Rain days | Good to fly |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 6.6°C | 15 km/h | 2 | 87% |
| February | 13.3°C | 18 km/h | 1 | 86% |
| March | 16.9°C | 21 km/h | 0 | 77% |
| April | 19.7°C | 22 km/h | 2 | 75% |
| May | 23.8°C | 21 km/h | 2 | 89% |
| June | 29.3°C | 18 km/h | 5 | 88% |
| July | 28.7°C | 17 km/h | 6 | 84% |
| August | 29.5°C | 17 km/h | 2 | 95% |
| September | 25°C | 17 km/h | 4 | 88% |
| October | 21.4°C | 17 km/h | 2 | 89% |
| November | 13.6°C | 15 km/h | 4 | 87% |
| December | 10.9°C | 14 km/h | 0 | 98% |
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 El Paso
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What you can do here
- Fly El Paso in an FPV drone or as a gull, from 31.782°, -106.512° — 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 El Paso.