Kanpur Airport (VECX / KNU)

Runways at VECX

According to OurAirports data (compiled from AIP and FAA sources), Kanpur Airport has one runway: 09/27 - 2,743 m long (9,000 ft), 46 m wide, asphalt surface.

Runway headings and wind

The thresholds are oriented as follows: 09/27 on 90° and 270° 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 09/27 axis, wind from the south (around 180°) or from the north (around 360°) blows perpendicular to the runway and produces the largest crosswind component. Wind from around 90° or 270° 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 VECX

Weather reports for Kanpur Airport are published under the ICAO code VECX. 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 VECX 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 VECX, 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 Kanpur Civil Airport (Old) (VIKA, 6 km), Chaudhary Charan Singh International Airport (Lucknow) (VILK, 62 km), Bakshi Ka Talab Air Force Station (Lucknow) (VIBL, 81 km). When no report is available for VECX, they usually give the best approximation of conditions in the area.