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Goliat (ENUG)

Norway · 71.3000, 22.2500 · Local time: --:--:-- · UTC time: --:--:--

About Goliat

Goliat is an airport with the ICAO code ENUG. Country: Norway. OurAirports classifies it as a heliport. Its ICAO code starts with the EN prefix, which marks airports in Norway. No IATA code is assigned, which is typical for airports without scheduled traffic. The airport reference point sits at 71°18'00"N, 22°15'00"E. The applicable time zone is Arctic/Longyearbyen.

Satellite view of ENUG

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Climate at Goliat - statistics from METAR reports

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

We computed these statistics from 26,055 METAR reports issued by ENUG in 2023-2025. VFR conditions prevailed 59% of the time, MVFR 28% and IFR or LIFR 14%. Best month for VFR flying: August (69% of hours VFR). Most IFR and LIFR hours: July (35%).

Through the day, IFR or LIFR conditions are most frequent around 02:00 UTC (16% of reports at that hour) and least frequent around 11:00 UTC (12%).

Fog (FG) was reported on 23 days a year on average, most often in July. Thunderstorms (TS) occurred on 0 days a year on average, and snowfall on 137.

The wind most often blows from E (90°) - 12% of reports. Calm (0 kt) made up <1% of reports, and gusts of 25 kt or more appeared in 12%. Warmest month: August (average high 15.2 °C); coldest: March (average low -1.9 °C).

Year

Selected period in numbers: 2023-2025

VFR hours
59%
IFR/LIFR hours
14%
Avg high
6.9 °C
Avg low
3.4 °C
Fog days
23
Thunderstorm days
0
Snow days
137
Prevailing wind
E · 12%
Gusts ≥ 25 kt
12%

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 58%, MVFR 29%, IFR 10%, LIFR 3%JanFebruary: VFR 58%, MVFR 30%, IFR 10%, LIFR 2%FebMarch: VFR 55%, MVFR 31%, IFR 10%, LIFR 4%MarApril: VFR 59%, MVFR 29%, IFR 9%, LIFR 3%AprMay: VFR 56%, MVFR 30%, IFR 8%, LIFR 6%MayJune: VFR 56%, MVFR 28%, IFR 11%, LIFR 6%JunJuly: VFR 45%, MVFR 20%, IFR 15%, LIFR 21%JulAugust: VFR 69%, MVFR 20%, IFR 6%, LIFR 5%AugSeptember: VFR 64%, MVFR 25%, IFR 7%, LIFR 4%SeptOctober: VFR 68%, MVFR 29%, IFR 2%, LIFR 1%OctNovember: VFR 56%, MVFR 31%, IFR 10%, LIFR 3%NovDecember: VFR 58%, MVFR 31%, IFR 8%, LIFR 3%Dec
  • VFR 59%
  • MVFR 28%
  • IFR 9%
  • LIFR 5%
Temperature month by month
Chart: average daily high and low temperature in each month−5°0°5°10°15°20°January: -1.1 … 2.7 °C3−1JanFebruary: -0.3 … 3.1 °C30FebMarch: -1.9 … 1.8 °C2−2MarApril: -0.1 … 3.3 °C30AprMay: 3.3 … 7.3 °C73MayJune: 6.5 … 10.0 °C106JunJuly: 9.5 … 13.4 °C1310JulAugust: 11.5 … 15.2 °C1511AugSeptember: 9.0 … 12.0 °C129SeptOctober: 4.2 … 6.9 °C74OctNovember: 0.7 … 4.0 °C41NovDecember: -0.4 … 2.6 °C30Dec

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: 7%NNE: 4%NE: 4%ENE: 6%E: 12%ESE: 4%SE: 6%SSE: 4%S: 6%SSW: 4%SW: 8%WSW: 8%W: 10%WNW: 4%NW: 4%NNW: 3%NNNENEENEEESESESSESSSWSWWSWWWNWNWNNWE 12%

Wind rose

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

Most often: E - 12% 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
January2.7-1.158%13%0024
February3.1-0.358%12%0018
March1.8-1.955%14%0.3023
April3.3-0.159%12%0015
May7.33.356%13%3.707
June10.06.556%17%4.700.7
July13.49.545%35%1000
August15.211.569%11%1.700
September12.09.064%11%200.3
October6.94.268%3%0.709.4
November4.00.756%13%0.3020
December2.6-0.458%10%0020

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.

METAR and TAF for ENUG

Weather reports for Goliat are published under the ICAO code ENUG. 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 ENUG 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 ENUG, check the nearby airports listed below.

Reports always use UTC (the Z suffix). The Arctic/Longyearbyen 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 Hammerfest Airport (ENHF, 86 km), Hasvik Airport (ENHK, 91 km), Honningsvåg Airport, Valan (ENHV, 138 km). When no report is available for ENUG, they usually give the best approximation of conditions in the area.

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