Hashimara Air Force Station (Jalpaiguri) (VEHX)

Runways at VEHX

According to OurAirports data (compiled from AIP and FAA sources), Hashimara Air Force Station (Jalpaiguri) has one runway: 11R/29L - 2,743 m long (9,000 ft), 45 m wide, asphalt surface.

Runway headings and wind

The thresholds are oriented as follows: 11R/29L on 110° and 290° 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 11R/29L axis, wind from the south (around 200°) or from the north (around 20°) blows perpendicular to the runway and produces the largest crosswind component. Wind from around 110° or 290° 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 VEHX

Weather reports for Hashimara Air Force Station (Jalpaiguri) are published under the ICAO code VEHX. 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 VEHX 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 VEHX, 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 Cooch Behar Airport (VECO, 42 km), Paro International Airport (VQPR, 79 km), Rupsi Airport (VERU, 82 km). When no report is available for VEHX, they usually give the best approximation of conditions in the area.