Updated 2026-09-24
Can I fly in wind, rain or cold?
Short answer
Wind: most drones here are rated Level 5, about 10.7 m/s (24 mph), and that is a rating for holding position, not for flying home against it. Rain: nothing in this catalog is rated for it, and the honest advice is land. Cold: lithium capacity drops sharply below about 5°C, so expect to lose a quarter or more of your flight time.
What a wind rating is measuring
Beaufort levels are what most makers quote, and Level 5 works out to roughly 10.7 metres per second. The number describes the wind the aircraft can hold position in — not the wind it can make progress into. A 249-gram drone at its rated limit downwind may simply not be able to come back, which is why the standard advice is to fly out into the wind and return with it.
Weight is the wind spec that is not on the box
Two aircraft can share a Level 5 rating and behave completely differently in gusts. A 724-gram Air 3S has nearly three times the mass of a Mini and correspondingly more authority; a 135-gram Neo is rated Level 4 and feels it. If you regularly fly somewhere exposed, weight matters more than the rating.
Rain, in one sentence
None of the consumer drones in this catalog carry an ingress-protection rating, water on the motor bells and the gimbal is exactly as bad as it sounds, and owners who have been caught out report a range of outcomes from a full recovery after drying to a dead aircraft. Land.
Cold, and what to do about it
Lithium polymer packs lose usable capacity as they cool, and a drone that reports 100 per cent on a cold pack can drop alarmingly fast once it is under load. Keep spare batteries in an inside pocket, let the aircraft hover for thirty seconds close to you before climbing so the pack self-warms, and plan on a noticeably shorter flight than the same drone gives you in summer.