Dharavandhoo Airport (Baa Atoll) (VRMD / DRV)

Runways at VRMD

According to OurAirports data (compiled from AIP and FAA sources), Dharavandhoo Airport (Baa Atoll) has one runway: 11/29 - 1,189 m long (3,901 ft), asphalt surface.

Runway headings and wind

The thresholds are oriented as follows: 11/29 on 110° and 290° 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 11/29 axis, wind from the south (around 200°) or from the north (around 20°) blows perpendicular to the runway and produces the largest crosswind component. Wind from around 110° or 290° 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 VRMD

Weather reports for Dharavandhoo Airport (Baa Atoll) are published under the ICAO code VRMD. 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 VRMD 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 VRMD, check the nearby airports listed below.

Reports always use UTC (the Z suffix). The Indian/Maldives zone stays at GMT+05:00 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 Madivaru Airport (Naifaru) (VRGD, 43 km), Ifuru Airport (Ifuru Island) (VREI, 62 km), Maafaru International Airport (Noonu Atoll) (VRDA, 83 km). When no report is available for VRMD, they usually give the best approximation of conditions in the area.