India · elevation 15 ft AMSL
· 17.7235, 83.2277
INS Dega Airport (visakhapatnam international airport) is an airport with the ICAO code VOVZ. Country: India. Nearest settlement listed in the database: Visakhapatnam. OurAirports classifies it as a medium-sized airport. Its ICAO code starts with the VO prefix, which marks airports in India. No IATA code is assigned, which is typical for airports without scheduled traffic. The airport reference point sits at 17°43'25"N, 83°13'40"E, at an elevation of 15 ft (5 m) above sea level. The applicable time zone is Asia/Kolkata.
Aerial imagery showing the runway and apron layout - the zoom is matched to the longest runway.
| Threshold | Course | Length | Width | Surface |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 05 | 50° | 1,829 m (6,000 ft) | 46 m (150 ft) | asphalt |
| 23 | 230° | |||
| 10 | 100° | 3,050 m (10,007 ft) | 45 m (148 ft) | asphalt |
| 28 | 280° |
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.
What the METAR reports from VOVZ for 2023-2025 show - counted hour by hour.
We computed these statistics from 23,908 METAR reports issued by VOVZ in 2023-2025. VFR conditions prevailed <1% of the time, MVFR 22% and IFR or LIFR 78%. Best month for VFR flying: July (<1% of hours VFR). Most IFR and LIFR hours: December (96%).
Through the day, IFR or LIFR conditions are most frequent around 00:00 UTC (98% of reports at that hour) and least frequent around 09:00 UTC (48%).
Fog (FG) was reported on 17 days a year on average, most often in January. Thunderstorms (TS) occurred on 90 days a year on average, and snowfall practically never.
The wind most often blows from SW (225°) - 11% of reports. Calm (0 kt) made up <1% of reports, and gusts of 25 kt or more appeared in <1%. Warmest month: April (average high 35.1 °C); coldest: January (average low 18.9 °C).
Day counts are for the selected period (for all years - the yearly average).
The top of each bar is the average daily high, the bottom the average daily low (usually around dawn), in °C.
Most often: SW - 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 | Avg high °C | Avg low °C | VFR | IFR/LIFR | Fog days | Thunderstorm days | Snow days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 28.6 | 18.9 | 0% | 95% | 7.8 | 0 | 0 |
| February | 31.3 | 21.4 | 0% | 87% | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| March | 33.3 | 23.2 | 0% | 75% | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| April | 35.1 | 26.0 | 0% | 70% | 0 | 6.8 | 0 |
| May | 34.5 | 27.0 | 0% | 66% | 0 | 15 | 0 |
| June | 34.5 | 27.5 | 0% | 70% | 0 | 11 | 0 |
| July | 32.7 | 26.6 | <1% | 53% | 0 | 8 | 0 |
| August | 32.7 | 26.7 | 0% | 71% | 0 | 12 | 0 |
| September | 32.2 | 26.0 | 0% | 77% | 0 | 18 | 0 |
| October | 32.4 | 25.2 | 0% | 81% | 0 | 13 | 0 |
| November | 30.9 | 23.1 | 0% | 88% | 0.7 | 1.7 | 0 |
| December | 27.9 | 19.9 | 0% | 96% | 3.7 | 1 | 0 |
Temperatures are averages of daily highs and lows. Day counts are the average per month over the period.
According to OurAirports data (compiled from AIP and FAA sources), INS Dega Airport (visakhapatnam international airport) has 2 runways: 05/23 - 1,829 m long (6,000 ft), 46 m wide, asphalt surface; 10/28 - 3,050 m long (10,007 ft), 45 m wide, asphalt surface.
The longest of them is 10/28, at 3,050 m.
The thresholds are oriented as follows: 05/23 on 50° and 230° magnetic, 10/28 on 100° and 280° 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.
Weather reports for INS Dega Airport (visakhapatnam international airport) are published under the ICAO code VOVZ. 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 VOVZ 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 VOVZ, 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 Alluri Sitarama Raju International Airport (Vizag) (Visakhapatnam) (VOVI, 40 km), Jeypore Airport (VEJP, 147 km), Rajahmundry Airport (Madhurapudi) (VORY, 165 km). When no report is available for VOVZ, they usually give the best approximation of conditions in the area.
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