AWG-1 Helipad (Buren) (EHMA)

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About AWG-1 Helipad (Buren)

AWG-1 Helipad (Buren) is an airport with the ICAO code EHMA. Country: Netherlands. Nearest settlement listed in the database: Buren. OurAirports classifies it as a heliport. Its ICAO code starts with the EH prefix, which marks airports in Netherlands. No IATA code is assigned, which is typical for airports without scheduled traffic. The airport reference point sits at 53°29'28"N, 5°56'29"E. The applicable time zone is Europe/Amsterdam.

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Climate at AWG-1 Helipad (Buren) - statistics from METAR reports

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

We computed these statistics from 24,413 METAR reports issued by EHMA in 2023-2025. VFR conditions prevailed 66% of the time, MVFR 21% and IFR or LIFR 12%. Best month for VFR flying: September (85% of hours VFR). Most IFR and LIFR hours: December (33%).

Through the day, IFR or LIFR conditions are most frequent around 05:00 UTC (15% of reports at that hour) and least frequent around 15:00 UTC (10%).

Fog (FG) was reported on 11 days a year on average, most often in November. Thunderstorms (TS) occurred on 12 days a year on average, and snowfall on 7.7.

The wind most often blows from SSW (203°) - 11% 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 20.0 °C); coldest: January (average low 3.6 °C).

Year

Period

Selected period in numbers: 2023-2025

VFR hours: 66%
IFR/LIFR hours: 12%
Avg high: 13.4 °C
Avg low: 10.3 °C
Fog days: 11
Thunderstorm days: 12
Snow days: 7.7
Prevailing wind: SSW · 11%
Gusts ≥ 25 kt: 1%

Day counts are for the selected period (for all years - the yearly average).

Flight categories month by month

VFR 66%
MVFR 21%
IFR 6%
LIFR 6%

Temperature month by month

The top of each bar is the average daily high, the bottom the average daily low (usually around dawn), in °C.

Wind rose

1-10 kt
11-20 kt
over 20 kt
calm: <1%

Most often: SSW - 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 by month

Month	Avg high °C	Avg low °C	VFR	IFR/LIFR	Fog days	Thunderstorm days	Snow days
January	6.6	3.6	50%	21%	0.7	0	3.2
February	7.2	4.4	46%	21%	1.3	0	1.3
March	8.9	5.5	61%	15%	1.5	0	1.5
April	11.2	8.0	73%	10%	1.2	0	0
May	14.3	11.3	69%	12%	1	1.3	0
June	17.6	14.3	80%	4%	0.3	0.7	0
July	19.2	16.2	75%	4%	0	3.3	0
August	20.0	16.6	83%	2%	0.7	2.7	0
September	18.8	15.2	85%	4%	1	2.7	0
October	14.4	11.4	63%	13%	1.7	0	0
November	10.3	7.0	58%	20%	2.1	1.4	1.7
December	8.7	5.6	35%	33%	0	0	0

Temperatures are averages of daily highs and lows. Day counts are the average per month over the period.

METAR and TAF for EHMA

Weather reports for AWG-1 Helipad (Buren) are published under the ICAO code EHMA. 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 EHMA 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 EHMA, check the nearby airports listed below.

Reports always use UTC (the Z suffix). The Europe/Amsterdam 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 Ameland Airport Ballum (EHAL, 18 km), Leeuwarden Air Base (EHLW, 32 km), Drachten Airfield (EHDR, 43 km). When no report is available for EHMA, they usually give the best approximation of conditions in the area.

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