Rajahmundry Airport (Madhurapudi) (VORY / RJA)

India · elevation 151 ft AMSL · 17.1058, 81.8132 · Local time: --:--:-- · UTC time: --:--:--

About Rajahmundry Airport (Madhurapudi)

Rajahmundry Airport (Madhurapudi) is an airport with the ICAO code VORY and the IATA code RJA. Country: India. Nearest settlement listed in the database: Madhurapudi. OurAirports classifies it as a medium-sized airport. Its ICAO code starts with the VO prefix, which marks airports in India. The four-letter code VORY is used in flight operations and weather reports, while the three-letter IATA code RJA is used for ticketing and baggage handling. The airport reference point sits at 17°06'21"N, 81°48'48"E, at an elevation of 151 ft (46 m) above sea level. The applicable time zone is Asia/Kolkata.

Satellite view of VORY

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

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Runways of VORY

ThresholdCourseLengthWidthSurface
0550°3,165 m (10,384 ft)45 m (148 ft)asphalt
23230°

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 Rajahmundry Airport (Madhurapudi) - statistics from METAR reports

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

We computed these statistics from 18,064 METAR reports issued by VORY in 2023-2025. VFR conditions prevailed <1% of the time, MVFR 68% and IFR or LIFR 32%. Best month for VFR flying: March (3% of hours VFR). Most IFR and LIFR hours: January (80%).

Through the day, IFR or LIFR conditions are most frequent around 01:00 UTC (64% of reports at that hour) and least frequent around 14:00 UTC (19%).

Fog (FG) was reported on 13 days a year on average, most often in February. Thunderstorms (TS) occurred on 72 days a year on average, and snowfall practically never.

The wind most often blows from W (270°) - 12% of reports. Calm (0 kt) made up 9% of reports, and gusts of 25 kt or more appeared in 3%. Warmest month: April (average high 37.2 °C); coldest: January (average low 19.4 °C).

Year

Selected period in numbers: 2023-2025

VFR hours
<1%
IFR/LIFR hours
32%
Avg high
33.5 °C
Avg low
24.2 °C
Fog days
13
Thunderstorm days
72
Snow days
0
Prevailing wind
W · 12%
Gusts ≥ 25 kt
3%

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 20%, IFR 61%, LIFR 20%JanFebruary: VFR 0%, MVFR 54%, IFR 32%, LIFR 14%FebMarch: VFR 3%, MVFR 72%, IFR 19%, LIFR 6%MarApril: VFR 2%, MVFR 84%, IFR 13%, LIFR 2%AprMay: VFR 0%, MVFR 89%, IFR 10%, LIFR 1%MayJune: VFR 0%, MVFR 89%, IFR 10%, LIFR 1%JunJuly: VFR 0%, MVFR 86%, IFR 12%, LIFR 2%JulAugust: VFR <1%, MVFR 88%, IFR 11%, LIFR 1%AugSeptember: VFR 0%, MVFR 80%, IFR 18%, LIFR 2%SeptOctober: VFR 0%, MVFR 72%, IFR 26%, LIFR 2%OctNovember: VFR 0%, MVFR 50%, IFR 47%, LIFR 4%NovDecember: VFR <1%, MVFR 31%, IFR 59%, LIFR 10%Dec
  • VFR <1%
  • MVFR 68%
  • IFR 27%
  • LIFR 5%
Temperature month by month
Chart: average daily high and low temperature in each month0°5°10°15°20°25°30°35°40°January: 19.4 … 30.8 °C3119JanFebruary: 21.3 … 33.3 °C3321FebMarch: 23.4 … 34.9 °C3523MarApril: 26.1 … 37.2 °C3726AprMay: 27.0 … 37.0 °C3727MayJune: 27.8 … 36.4 °C3628JunJuly: 26.4 … 32.0 °C3226JulAugust: 26.4 … 33.0 °C3326AugSeptember: 26.1 … 32.7 °C3326SeptOctober: 25.0 … 33.6 °C3425OctNovember: 22.2 … 32.2 °C3222NovDecember: 19.9 … 30.1 °C3020Dec

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: 4%NNE: 8%NE: 5%ENE: 5%E: 10%ESE: 6%SE: 3%SSE: 3%S: 5%SSW: 7%SW: 9%WSW: 9%W: 12%WNW: 3%NW: 2%NNW: 1%NNNENEENEEESESESSESSSWSWWSWWWNWNWNNWW 12%

Wind rose

  • 1-10 kt
  • 11-20 kt
  • over 20 kt
  • calm: 9%

Most often: W - 12% 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
January30.819.40%80%4.400
February33.321.30%46%5.300
March34.923.43%25%0.71.70
April37.226.12%15%0.45.80
May37.027.00%11%0.3110
June36.427.80%11%09.30
July32.026.40%14%06.30
August33.026.4<1%12%0.3110
September32.726.10%20%0130
October33.625.00%28%09.70
November32.222.20%50%1.33.30
December30.119.9<1%69%0.30.30

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 VORY

According to OurAirports data (compiled from AIP and FAA sources), Rajahmundry Airport (Madhurapudi) has one runway: 05/23 - 3,165 m long (10,384 ft), 45 m wide, asphalt surface.

Runway headings and wind

The thresholds are oriented as follows: 05/23 on 50° and 230° 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 05/23 axis, wind from the south-east (around 140°) or from the north-west (around 320°) blows perpendicular to the runway and produces the largest crosswind component. Wind from around 50° or 230° 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 VORY

Weather reports for Rajahmundry Airport (Madhurapudi) are published under the ICAO code VORY. 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 VORY 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 VORY, 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 Vijayawada International Airport (VOBZ, 125 km), INS Dega Airport (visakhapatnam international airport) (VOVZ, 165 km), Alluri Sitarama Raju International Airport (Vizag) (Visakhapatnam) (VOVI, 203 km). When no report is available for VORY, they usually give the best approximation of conditions in the area.

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