Italy · elevation 7 ft AMSL
· 45.5053, 12.3519
Venice Marco Polo Airport is an airport with the ICAO code LIPZ and the IATA code VCE. Country: Italy. Nearest settlement listed in the database: Venice. OurAirports classifies it as a large airport. Its ICAO code starts with the LI prefix, which marks airports in Italy. The four-letter code LIPZ is used in flight operations and weather reports, while the three-letter IATA code VCE is used for ticketing and baggage handling. The airport reference point sits at 45°30'19"N, 12°21'07"E, at an elevation of 7 ft (2 m) above sea level. The applicable time zone is Europe/Rome.
Aerial imagery showing the runway and apron layout - the zoom is matched to the longest runway.
| Threshold | Course | Length | Width | Surface |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 04L | 40° | 2,780 m (9,121 ft) | 45 m (148 ft) | asphalt |
| 22R | 220° | |||
| 04R | 40° | 3,300 m (10,827 ft) | 45 m (148 ft) | asphalt |
| 22L | 220° |
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 LIPZ for 2023-2025 show - counted hour by hour.
We computed these statistics from 26,218 METAR reports issued by LIPZ in 2023-2025. VFR conditions prevailed 79% of the time, MVFR 11% and IFR or LIFR 10%. Best month for VFR flying: August (98% of hours VFR). Most IFR and LIFR hours: February (33%).
Through the day, IFR or LIFR conditions are most frequent around 05:00 UTC (16% of reports at that hour) and least frequent around 16:00 UTC (5%).
Fog (FG) was reported on 37 days a year on average, most often in February. Thunderstorms (TS) occurred on 17 days a year on average, and snowfall on 1.
The wind most often blows from NE (45°) - 13% of reports. Calm (0 kt) made up <1% of reports, and gusts of 25 kt or more appeared in <1%. Warmest month: August (average high 29.3 °C); coldest: January (average low 2.5 °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: NE - 13% 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 | 8.5 | 2.5 | 54% | 24% | 6.3 | 0 | 0 |
| February | 10.3 | 3.4 | 48% | 33% | 9.6 | 0 | 0.3 |
| March | 14.2 | 7.1 | 70% | 12% | 5.3 | 0.7 | 0 |
| April | 17.4 | 9.6 | 88% | 4% | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| May | 21.3 | 14.2 | 92% | 2% | 0.7 | 2 | 0 |
| June | 26.8 | 19.2 | 95% | 1% | 0.3 | 3.7 | 0 |
| July | 29.0 | 20.7 | 98% | <1% | 0 | 3.7 | 0 |
| August | 29.3 | 20.8 | 98% | <1% | 0 | 3.7 | 0 |
| September | 24.9 | 16.9 | 94% | 1% | 1 | 1.7 | 0 |
| October | 19.4 | 12.4 | 71% | 11% | 2.3 | 0 | 0.3 |
| November | 12.8 | 5.0 | 73% | 13% | 4 | 0.3 | 0 |
| December | 9.7 | 2.7 | 63% | 20% | 6.3 | 0 | 0.3 |
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), Venice Marco Polo Airport has 2 runways: 04L/22R - 2,780 m long (9,121 ft), 45 m wide, asphalt surface; 04R/22L - 3,300 m long (10,827 ft), 45 m wide, asphalt surface.
The longest of them is 04R/22L, at 3,300 m.
The thresholds are oriented as follows: 04L/22R on 40° and 220° magnetic, 04R/22L on 40° and 220° 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 04L/22R axis, wind from the south-east (around 130°) or from the north-west (around 310°) blows perpendicular to the runway and produces the largest crosswind component. Wind from around 40° or 220° 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 Venice Marco Polo Airport are published under the ICAO code LIPZ. 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 LIPZ 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 LIPZ, check the nearby airports listed below.
Reports always use UTC (the Z suffix). The Europe/Rome zone is GMT+01:00 in winter and GMT+02:00 in summer - that is the shift to apply to the time in the report to get local time at the airport.
The closest airports in the database, measured in a straight line from the reference point, are Venice-Lido Giovanni Nicelli Airfield (Venezia (VE)) (LIPV, 9 km), Caposile Airfield (San Donà di Piave) (LIKI, 19 km), Treviso Airport (Treviso (TV)) (LIPH, 20 km). When no report is available for LIPZ, they usually give the best approximation of conditions in the area.
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