Haapavesi Airfield (EFHP)

Runways at EFHP

According to OurAirports data (compiled from AIP and FAA sources), Haapavesi Airfield has one runway: 12/30 - 770 m long (2,526 ft), 15 m wide, unpaved surface.

Runway headings and wind

The thresholds are oriented as follows: 12/30 on 120° and 300° 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 12/30 axis, wind from the south-west (around 210°) or from the north-east (around 30°) blows perpendicular to the runway and produces the largest crosswind component. Wind from around 120° or 300° 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 EFHP

Weather reports for Haapavesi Airfield are published under the ICAO code EFHP. 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 EFHP 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 EFHP, check the nearby airports listed below.

Reports always use UTC (the Z suffix). The Europe/Helsinki zone is GMT+02:00 in winter and GMT+03:00 in summer - that is the shift to apply to the time in the report to get local time at the airport.

The closest airports in the database, measured in a straight line from the reference point, are Kärsämäki Airfield (EFKR, 18 km), Ylivieska Airfield (EFYL, 38 km), Pyhäsalmi Airfield (Pyhäjärvi) (EFPY, 47 km). When no report is available for EFHP, they usually give the best approximation of conditions in the area.