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Vijayawada International Airport (VOBZ / VGA)

India · elevation 82 ft AMSL · 16.5300, 80.8049 · Local time: --:--:-- · UTC time: --:--:--

About Vijayawada International Airport

Vijayawada International Airport is an airport with the ICAO code VOBZ and the IATA code VGA. Country: India. Nearest settlement listed in the database: Vijayawada. OurAirports classifies it as a large airport. Its ICAO code starts with the VO prefix, which marks airports in India. The four-letter code VOBZ is used in flight operations and weather reports, while the three-letter IATA code VGA is used for ticketing and baggage handling. The airport reference point sits at 16°31'48"N, 80°48'18"E, at an elevation of 82 ft (25 m) above sea level. The applicable time zone is Asia/Kolkata.

Satellite view of VOBZ

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

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Runways of VOBZ

ThresholdCourseLengthWidthSurface
0880°3,360 m (11,023 ft)45 m (148 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 Vijayawada International Airport - statistics from METAR reports

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

We computed these statistics from 17,670 METAR reports issued by VOBZ in 2023-2025. VFR conditions prevailed <1% of the time, MVFR 73% and IFR or LIFR 27%. Best month for VFR flying: June (1% of hours VFR). Most IFR and LIFR hours: January (69%).

Through the day, IFR or LIFR conditions are most frequent around 00:00 UTC (60% of reports at that hour) and least frequent around 09:00 UTC (10%).

Fog (FG) was reported on 31 days a year on average, most often in February. Thunderstorms (TS) occurred on 52 days a year on average, and snowfall practically never.

The wind most often blows from W (270°) - 10% of reports. Calm (0 kt) made up 22% of reports, and gusts of 25 kt or more appeared in 1%. Warmest month: April (average high 37.7 °C); coldest: January (average low 20.5 °C).

Year

Selected period in numbers: 2023-2025

VFR hours
<1%
IFR/LIFR hours
27%
Avg high
33.3 °C
Avg low
24.8 °C
Fog days
31
Thunderstorm days
52
Snow days
0
Prevailing wind
W · 10%
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 31%, IFR 49%, LIFR 20%JanFebruary: VFR 0%, MVFR 63%, IFR 22%, LIFR 15%FebMarch: VFR 0%, MVFR 77%, IFR 17%, LIFR 6%MarApril: VFR 0%, MVFR 88%, IFR 11%, LIFR 1%AprMay: VFR 0%, MVFR 91%, IFR 8%, LIFR 1%MayJune: VFR 1%, MVFR 94%, IFR 5%, LIFR <1%JunJuly: VFR 0%, MVFR 90%, IFR 10%, LIFR <1%JulAugust: VFR 0%, MVFR 95%, IFR 5%, LIFR <1%AugSeptember: VFR 0%, MVFR 87%, IFR 12%, LIFR 1%SeptOctober: VFR 0%, MVFR 71%, IFR 27%, LIFR 2%OctNovember: VFR 0%, MVFR 51%, IFR 43%, LIFR 5%NovDecember: VFR 0%, MVFR 37%, IFR 49%, LIFR 15%Dec
  • VFR <1%
  • MVFR 73%
  • IFR 22%
  • LIFR 6%
Temperature month by month
Chart: average daily high and low temperature in each month0°5°10°15°20°25°30°35°40°January: 20.5 … 29.5 °C2921JanFebruary: 22.0 … 32.9 °C3322FebMarch: 24.0 … 35.2 °C3524MarApril: 26.5 … 37.7 °C3826AprMay: 27.4 … 36.7 °C3727MayJune: 27.8 … 36.6 °C3728JunJuly: 26.5 … 32.6 °C3326JulAugust: 26.8 … 33.5 °C3427AugSeptember: 26.1 … 32.8 °C3326SeptOctober: 25.3 … 32.3 °C3225OctNovember: 23.6 … 31.1 °C3124NovDecember: 21.1 … 29.1 °C2921Dec

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

Wind rose

  • 1-10 kt
  • 11-20 kt
  • over 20 kt
  • calm: 22%

Most often: W - 10% 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
January29.520.50%69%9.400
February32.922.00%37%1100
March35.224.00%23%310
April37.726.50%12%0.43.10
May36.727.40%9%0.48.90
June36.627.81%5%07.30
July32.626.50%10%040
August33.526.80%5%05.70
September32.826.10%13%0.7100
October32.325.30%29%0.790
November31.123.60%49%0.31.70
December29.121.10%63%5.20.70

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 VOBZ

According to OurAirports data (compiled from AIP and FAA sources), Vijayawada International Airport has one runway: 08/26 - 3,360 m long (11,023 ft), 45 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 VOBZ

Weather reports for Vijayawada International Airport are published under the ICAO code VOBZ. 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 VOBZ 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 VOBZ, 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 Rajahmundry Airport (Madhurapudi) (VORY, 125 km), Nagarjuna Sagar Airport (VONS, 159 km), Warangal Airport (VOWA, 200 km). When no report is available for VOBZ, they usually give the best approximation of conditions in the area.

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