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Malabo International Airport (FGSL / SSG)

Equatorial Guinea · elevation 76 ft AMSL · 3.7553, 8.7087 · Local time: --:--:-- · UTC time: --:--:--

About Malabo International Airport

Malabo International Airport is an airport with the ICAO code FGSL and the IATA code SSG. Country: Equatorial Guinea. Nearest settlement listed in the database: Malabo. OurAirports classifies it as a large airport. Its ICAO code starts with the FG prefix, which marks airports in Equatorial Guinea. The four-letter code FGSL is used in flight operations and weather reports, while the three-letter IATA code SSG is used for ticketing and baggage handling. The airport reference point sits at 3°45'19"N, 8°42'31"E, at an elevation of 76 ft (23 m) above sea level. The applicable time zone is Africa/Malabo.

Satellite view of FGSL

Aerial imagery showing the runway and apron layout - the zoom is matched to the longest runway.

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Runways of FGSL

ThresholdCourseLengthWidthSurface
0440°2,940 m (9,647 ft)46 m (151 ft)asphalt
22220°

The course is derived from the runway designator (number × 10), not from a survey - the actual magnetic bearing can differ by a few degrees.

Declared distances (TORA, TODA, ASDA, LDA) are published in the national AIP - they are not part of this table.

Climate at Malabo International Airport - statistics from METAR reports

What the METAR reports from FGSL for 2023-2025 show - counted hour by hour.

We computed these statistics from 20,932 METAR reports issued by FGSL in 2023-2025. VFR conditions prevailed 75% of the time, MVFR 18% and IFR or LIFR 7%. Best month for VFR flying: November (92% of hours VFR). Most IFR and LIFR hours: February (18%).

Through the day, IFR or LIFR conditions are most frequent around 13:00 UTC (13% of reports at that hour) and least frequent around 00:00 UTC (2%).

Fog practically did not occur here. Thunderstorms (TS) occurred on 201 days a year on average, and snowfall practically never.

The wind most often blows from WSW (248°) - 36% of reports. Calm (0 kt) made up 6% of reports, and gusts of 25 kt or more appeared in <1%. Warmest month: February (average high 32.1 °C); coldest: August (average low 23.5 °C).

Year

Selected period in numbers: 2023-2025

VFR hours
75%
IFR/LIFR hours
7%
Avg high
30.3 °C
Avg low
24.1 °C
Fog days
0
Thunderstorm days
201
Snow days
0
Prevailing wind
WSW · 36%
Gusts ≥ 25 kt
<1%

Day counts are for the selected period (for all years - the yearly average).

Flight categories month by month
Bar chart: share of VFR, MVFR, IFR and LIFR hours in each month0%25%50%75%100%January: VFR 45%, MVFR 47%, IFR 7%, LIFR <1%JanFebruary: VFR 46%, MVFR 36%, IFR 18%, LIFR 1%FebMarch: VFR 84%, MVFR 13%, IFR 3%, LIFR <1%MarApril: VFR 90%, MVFR 6%, IFR 4%, LIFR <1%AprMay: VFR 89%, MVFR 7%, IFR 4%, LIFR <1%MayJune: VFR 84%, MVFR 10%, IFR 5%, LIFR <1%JunJuly: VFR 72%, MVFR 17%, IFR 10%, LIFR <1%JulAugust: VFR 69%, MVFR 27%, IFR 4%, LIFR <1%AugSeptember: VFR 71%, MVFR 21%, IFR 8%, LIFR 0%SeptOctober: VFR 82%, MVFR 13%, IFR 5%, LIFR <1%OctNovember: VFR 92%, MVFR 6%, IFR 2%, LIFR <1%NovDecember: VFR 70%, MVFR 25%, IFR 5%, LIFR 0%Dec
  • VFR 75%
  • MVFR 18%
  • IFR 6%
  • LIFR <1%
Temperature month by month
Chart: average daily high and low temperature in each month0°5°10°15°20°25°30°35°January: 24.5 … 31.8 °C3225JanFebruary: 25.3 … 32.1 °C3225FebMarch: 24.8 … 31.8 °C3225MarApril: 24.4 … 31.5 °C3224AprMay: 24.6 … 31.1 °C3125MayJune: 23.9 … 29.7 °C3024JunJuly: 23.8 … 28.8 °C2924JulAugust: 23.5 … 28.4 °C2824AugSeptember: 23.7 … 28.6 °C2924SeptOctober: 23.7 … 29.5 °C3024OctNovember: 23.8 … 30.2 °C3024NovDecember: 24.0 … 31.3 °C3124Dec

The top of each bar is the average daily high, the bottom the average daily low (usually around dawn), in °C.

Wind rose: how often the wind blows from each of 16 directions10%20%30%40%N: 1%NNE: <1%NE: 1%ENE: 2%E: 2%ESE: 1%SE: <1%SSE: <1%S: 1%SSW: 2%SW: 9%WSW: 36%W: 24%WNW: 3%NW: 1%NNW: 1%NNNENEENEEESESESSESSSWSWWSWWWNWNWNNWWSW 36%

Wind rose

  • 1-10 kt
  • 11-20 kt
  • over 20 kt
  • calm: 6%

Most often: WSW - 36% of reports. Each petal shows the direction the wind blows from (as in METAR) - the longer it is, the more often. Colour shows wind speed.

Month by month

MonthAvg high °CAvg low °CVFRIFR/LIFRFog daysThunderstorm daysSnow days
January31.824.545%7%04.60
February32.125.346%18%07.90
March31.824.884%3%0230
April31.524.490%4%0210
May31.124.689%4%0250
June29.723.984%5%0240
July28.823.872%11%0120
August28.423.569%5%04.20
September28.623.771%8%0160
October29.523.782%5%0260
November30.223.892%2%0240
December31.324.070%5%0140

Temperatures are averages of daily highs and lows. Day counts are the average per month over the period.

More in the METAR Academy: VFR, MVFR, IFR, LIFR flight categories, fog in METAR

Source: routine METAR reports from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet archive (Iowa State University), 2023-2025. Flight categories use the FAA thresholds, widely used as a convention. A day counts when it has at least 12 reports. These are statistics of past conditions - not a forecast or a substitute for a pre-flight briefing.

Runways at FGSL

According to OurAirports data (compiled from AIP and FAA sources), Malabo International Airport has one runway: 04/22 - 2,940 m long (9,647 ft), 46 m wide, asphalt surface.

Runway headings and wind

The thresholds are oriented as follows: 04/22 on 40° and 220° magnetic. A threshold designator is its magnetic heading divided by ten (ICAO Annex 14), so the runway axis can be read straight off the numbers.

For the 04/22 axis, wind from the south-east (around 130°) or from the north-west (around 310°) blows perpendicular to the runway and produces the largest crosswind component. Wind from around 40° or 220° acts along the runway, as a headwind or a tailwind. The decoder on this page computes those components automatically from the current METAR.

METAR and TAF for FGSL

Weather reports for Malabo International Airport are published under the ICAO code FGSL. A METAR is an observation of current conditions, usually issued every 30 or 60 minutes; a TAF is a forecast for the airport area, typically covering 9 to 30 hours.

The decoder breaks the FGSL report down into its parts: wind direction and speed including gusts and variability, visibility (including CAVOK and directional minimum visibility), weather phenomena by WMO code, cloud layers with their bases, temperature and dew point, QNH pressure, and the resulting flight category - VFR, MVFR, IFR or LIFR - using FAA thresholds.

Not every airport issues its own reports; many smaller airfields have no weather station. If no current data is available for FGSL, check the nearby airports listed below.

Reports always use UTC (the Z suffix). The Africa/Malabo zone stays at GMT+01:00 year-round, so converting to local time is always the same shift.

The closest airports in the database, measured in a straight line from the reference point, are Tiko Airport (FKKC, 81 km), Douala International Airport (FKKD, 116 km), Eket Airport (DNEK, 130 km). When no report is available for FGSL, they usually give the best approximation of conditions in the area.

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