🇺🇸 Rochester, United States of America
Rochester is a mid-sized city in United States of America. Real-Earth coordinates 43.172°, -77.622°, population 755,000. 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 Rochester
Flying conditions in Rochester
Flying weather in Rochester through the year
November in Rochester averages 5.9°C with winds around 24 km/h, and roughly 55% of days are good for flying — about 16 days see rain.
Fewest weather restrictions: September, October, August; January is the most restricted at 10% usable days. (That's about wind and rain, not comfort — check the temperatures below.)
| Month | Avg temp | Wind | Rain days | Good to fly |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | -4.9°C | 28 km/h | 17 | 10% |
| February | -4°C | 24 km/h | 16 | 13% |
| March | 3.7°C | 27 km/h | 12 | 40% |
| April | 8.5°C | 25 km/h | 18 | 50% |
| May | 12.9°C | 21 km/h | 15 | 52% |
| June | 20.1°C | 20 km/h | 14 | 65% |
| July | 23.6°C | 19 km/h | 11 | 65% |
| August | 21.2°C | 17 km/h | 13 | 68% |
| September | 18.3°C | 16 km/h | 9 | 75% |
| October | 12.1°C | 20 km/h | 9 | 73% |
| November | 5.9°C | 24 km/h | 16 | 55% |
| December | -1.4°C | 25 km/h | 17 | 18% |
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 Rochester
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What you can do here
- Fly Rochester in an FPV drone or as a gull, from 43.172°, -77.622° — 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 Rochester.