Drone Flight Calculator
How long your drone will really fly today. Pick your drone, enter the weather, and get the rated flight time adjusted for wind, temperature, altitude and terrain.
How long your drone will really fly today. Pick your drone, enter the weather, and get the rated flight time adjusted for wind, temperature, altitude and terrain.
Height above your takeoff point, not altitude above sea level. Wind, turbulence, and temperature adjustments use this height above the ground. Launching from elevated terrain (e.g. Denver or alpine sites)? The thinner air at your launch elevation is not modelled here — discount the estimate with the altitude adjustment guide.
Ceiling for the DJI Mini 4 Pro: 120 m (safety-profile limit)
Open flat terrain with minimal obstacles
Conservative limits for altitude, distance, wind, battery reserve and temperature. The calculator and mission planner warn when you exceed them.
Using current time for real-time atmospheric conditions
Automatically detect and warn about temperature inversions during nighttime flights
Rated flight time from the manufacturer, adjusted for the conditions you entered. Conditions change constantly — treat this as one input to your flight planning, not the only one.
Your ground-level weather carried up to the height you entered, using the ISA standard atmosphere.
Light breeze
12.0 mph at ground level
Temperature
17.8°C
Humidity
75%
Air density
1.202kg/m³
Dew point
13.3°C
Close to standard sea-level air (98% of ISA sea-level density). Pressure 1010 hPa (sea-level standard 1013.25 hPa).
The dew point (13.3 °C) is high enough for moisture to condense on a cold airframe, camera glass or electronics. Let the drone acclimatise before take-off and check the lens between flights.
Flight time depends mainly on battery temperature, wind, and air density. Every figure below comes from the same physics model this calculator uses — select a drone and enter your conditions for a flight-specific estimate. More flight-time questions in the FAQ
The calculator tells you how long you can fly. The mission planner tells you whether a specific route, out and back, fits inside that time.
Rated specs for every drone and brand the calculator knows — pick one to see its modelled flight time.
The environmental factors the calculator models, and how much each one costs you in flight time.
Drones up to 25 kg, ranked by the manufacturer's rated figures.