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Dehradun Jolly Grant Airport (Dehradun (Jauligrant)) (VIDN / DED)

India · elevation 1831 ft AMSL · 30.1892, 78.1767 · Local time: --:--:-- · UTC time: --:--:--

About Dehradun Jolly Grant Airport (Dehradun (Jauligrant))

Dehradun Jolly Grant Airport (Dehradun (Jauligrant)) is an airport with the ICAO code VIDN and the IATA code DED. Country: India. Nearest settlement listed in the database: Dehradun (Jauligrant). OurAirports classifies it as a medium-sized airport. Its ICAO code starts with the VI prefix, which marks airports in India. The four-letter code VIDN is used in flight operations and weather reports, while the three-letter IATA code DED is used for ticketing and baggage handling. The airport reference point sits at 30°11'21"N, 78°10'36"E, at an elevation of 1,831 ft (558 m) above sea level. The applicable time zone is Asia/Kolkata.

Satellite view of VIDN

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

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Runways of VIDN

ThresholdCourseLengthWidthSurface
0880°2,134 m (7,000 ft)46 m (150 ft)asphalt
26260°

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 Dehradun Jolly Grant Airport (Dehradun (Jauligrant)) - statistics from METAR reports

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

We computed these statistics from 10,467 METAR reports issued by VIDN in 2023-2025. VFR conditions prevailed 0% of the time, MVFR 41% and IFR or LIFR 59%. Best month for VFR flying: January (0% of hours VFR). Most IFR and LIFR hours: January (79%).

Through the day, IFR or LIFR conditions are most frequent around 15:00 UTC (95% of reports at that hour) and least frequent around 08:00 UTC (46%).

Fog (FG) was reported on 8.4 days a year on average, most often in January. Thunderstorms (TS) occurred on 41 days a year on average, and snowfall practically never.

The wind most often blows from W (270°) - 11% of reports. Calm (0 kt) made up <1% of reports, and gusts of 25 kt or more appeared in <1%. Warmest month: June (average high 35.3 °C); coldest: January (average low 6.6 °C).

Year

Selected period in numbers: 2023-2025

VFR hours
0%
IFR/LIFR hours
59%
Avg high
27.7 °C
Avg low
16.3 °C
Fog days
8.4
Thunderstorm days
41
Snow days
0
Prevailing wind
W · 11%
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 0%, MVFR 21%, IFR 67%, LIFR 12%JanFebruary: VFR 0%, MVFR 49%, IFR 50%, LIFR <1%FebMarch: VFR 0%, MVFR 69%, IFR 31%, LIFR <1%MarApril: VFR 0%, MVFR 80%, IFR 20%, LIFR 0%AprMay: VFR 0%, MVFR 41%, IFR 59%, LIFR 0%MayJune: VFR 0%, MVFR 49%, IFR 50%, LIFR 1%JunJuly: VFR 0%, MVFR 31%, IFR 67%, LIFR 2%JulAugust: VFR 0%, MVFR 27%, IFR 69%, LIFR 4%AugSeptember: VFR 0%, MVFR 37%, IFR 63%, LIFR 0%SeptOctober: VFR 0%, MVFR 34%, IFR 66%, LIFR 0%OctNovember: VFR 0%, MVFR 24%, IFR 74%, LIFR 2%NovDecember: VFR 0%, MVFR 30%, IFR 67%, LIFR 3%Dec
  • VFR 0%
  • MVFR 41%
  • IFR 57%
  • LIFR 2%
Temperature month by month
Chart: average daily high and low temperature in each month0°5°10°15°20°25°30°35°40°January: 6.6 … 18.9 °C197JanFebruary: 8.8 … 21.9 °C229FebMarch: 12.5 … 26.5 °C2713MarApril: 16.6 … 31.4 °C3117AprMay: 20.7 … 33.7 °C3421MayJune: 23.4 … 35.3 °C3523JunJuly: 24.2 … 30.2 °C3024JulAugust: 23.8 … 30.1 °C3024AugSeptember: 22.5 … 30.1 °C3023SeptOctober: 16.8 … 29.0 °C2917OctNovember: 12.3 … 25.2 °C2512NovDecember: 7.5 … 20.8 °C217Dec

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 directions5%10%15%N: 7%NNE: 9%NE: 10%ENE: 4%E: 2%ESE: 2%SE: 3%SSE: 4%S: 7%SSW: 7%SW: 8%WSW: 10%W: 11%WNW: 5%NW: 6%NNW: 4%NNNENEENEEESESESSESSSWSWWSWWWNWNWNNWW 11%

Wind rose

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

Most often: W - 11% 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
January18.96.60%79%6.700
February21.98.80%51%0.510
March26.512.50%31%01.50
April31.416.60%20%02.40
May33.720.70%59%02.70
June35.323.40%51%06.30
July30.224.20%69%09.50
August30.123.80%73%080
September30.122.50%63%08.30
October29.016.80%66%00.40
November25.212.30%76%000
December20.87.50%70%1.20.60

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 VIDN

According to OurAirports data (compiled from AIP and FAA sources), Dehradun Jolly Grant Airport (Dehradun (Jauligrant)) has one runway: 08/26 - 2,134 m long (7,000 ft), 46 m wide, asphalt surface.

Runway headings and wind

The thresholds are oriented as follows: 08/26 on 80° and 260° 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 08/26 axis, wind from the south (around 170°) or from the north (around 350°) blows perpendicular to the runway and produces the largest crosswind component. Wind from around 80° or 260° 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 VIDN

Weather reports for Dehradun Jolly Grant Airport (Dehradun (Jauligrant)) are published under the ICAO code VIDN. 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 VIDN 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 VIDN, check the nearby airports listed below.

Reports always use UTC (the Z suffix). The Asia/Kolkata zone stays at GMT+05:30 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 Sarsawa Air Force Station (Sherpur Naqeebpur) (VISP, 76 km), Ambala Air Force Station (VIAM, 132 km), Shaheed Bhagat Singh International Airport (Chandigarh) (VICG, 144 km). When no report is available for VIDN, they usually give the best approximation of conditions in the area.

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