Romania · elevation 314 ft AMSL
· 44.5718, 26.1033
Henri Coandă International Airport (Bucharest) is an airport with the ICAO code LROP and the IATA code OTP. Country: Romania. Nearest settlement listed in the database: Bucharest. OurAirports classifies it as a large airport. Its ICAO code starts with the LR prefix, which marks airports in Romania. The four-letter code LROP is used in flight operations and weather reports, while the three-letter IATA code OTP is used for ticketing and baggage handling. The airport reference point sits at 44°34'18"N, 26°06'12"E, at an elevation of 314 ft (96 m) above sea level. The applicable time zone is Europe/Bucharest.
Aerial imagery showing the runway and apron layout - the zoom is matched to the longest runway.
| Threshold | Course | Length | Width | Surface |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 08L | 80° | 3,500 m (11,484 ft) | 45 m (148 ft) | asphalt |
| 26R | 260° | |||
| 08R | 80° | 3,500 m (11,484 ft) | 45 m (148 ft) | asphalt |
| 26L | 260° |
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 LROP for 2023-2025 show - counted hour by hour.
We computed these statistics from 26,302 METAR reports issued by LROP in 2023-2025. VFR conditions prevailed 76% of the time, MVFR 12% and IFR or LIFR 12%. Best month for VFR flying: August (99% of hours VFR). Most IFR and LIFR hours: December (43%).
Through the day, IFR or LIFR conditions are most frequent around 05:00 UTC (20% of reports at that hour) and least frequent around 14:00 UTC (7%).
Fog (FG) was reported on 34 days a year on average, most often in December. Thunderstorms (TS) occurred on 23 days a year on average, and snowfall on 14.
The wind most often blows from E (90°) - 13% of reports. Calm (0 kt) made up 2% of reports, and gusts of 25 kt or more appeared in <1%. Warmest month: July (average high 33.1 °C); coldest: February (average low -1.7 °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: E - 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 | 7.7 | -1.4 | 49% | 28% | 7 | 0 | 5.7 |
| February | 8.1 | -1.7 | 60% | 16% | 4.3 | 0 | 3.3 |
| March | 14.8 | 3.1 | 74% | 8% | 1 | 0.3 | 1 |
| April | 18.5 | 6.5 | 84% | 7% | 1.3 | 1.7 | 0.7 |
| May | 22.0 | 10.5 | 91% | 3% | 0.3 | 4.7 | 0 |
| June | 30.0 | 16.6 | 98% | 1% | 0 | 5.7 | 0 |
| July | 33.1 | 18.9 | 98% | <1% | 0 | 7 | 0 |
| August | 32.3 | 18.4 | 99% | <1% | 0 | 2.7 | 0 |
| September | 27.0 | 14.6 | 93% | 2% | 0.3 | 0.7 | 0 |
| October | 20.1 | 7.6 | 86% | 3% | 0.7 | 0 | 0 |
| November | 11.2 | 3.0 | 50% | 29% | 7.7 | 0 | 1.3 |
| December | 6.9 | 0.4 | 32% | 43% | 11 | 0 | 2.3 |
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), Henri Coandă International Airport (Bucharest) has 2 runways: 08L/26R - 3,500 m long (11,484 ft), 45 m wide, asphalt surface; 08R/26L - 3,500 m long (11,484 ft), 45 m wide, asphalt surface.
The longest of them is 08L/26R, at 3,500 m.
The thresholds are oriented as follows: 08L/26R on 80° and 260° magnetic, 08R/26L on 80° and 260° 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 08L/26R axis, wind from the south (around 170°) or from the north (around 350°) blows perpendicular to the runway and produces the largest crosswind component. Wind from around 80° or 260° 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 Henri Coandă International Airport (Bucharest) are published under the ICAO code LROP. 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 LROP 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 LROP, check the nearby airports listed below.
Reports always use UTC (the Z suffix). The Europe/Bucharest zone is GMT+02:00 in winter and GMT+03:00 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 Bucharest Băneasa Aurel Vlaicu International Airport (LRBS, 8 km), Şirna Tăriceni Airfield (LRPH, 25 km), Clinceni Airfield (LRCN, 27 km). When no report is available for LROP, they usually give the best approximation of conditions in the area.
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