Switzerland · elevation 1306 ft AMSL
· 47.4850, 9.5608
Sankt Gallen Altenrhein Airport (St. Gallen) is an airport with the ICAO code LSZR and the IATA code ACH. Country: Switzerland. Nearest settlement listed in the database: St. Gallen. OurAirports classifies it as a medium-sized airport. Its ICAO code starts with the LS prefix, which marks airports in Switzerland. The four-letter code LSZR is used in flight operations and weather reports, while the three-letter IATA code ACH is used for ticketing and baggage handling. The airport reference point sits at 47°29'06"N, 9°33'39"E, at an elevation of 1,306 ft (398 m) above sea level. The applicable time zone is Europe/Zurich.
Aerial imagery showing the runway and apron layout - the zoom is matched to the longest runway.
| Threshold | Course | Length | Width | Surface |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 100° | 1,455 m (4,774 ft) | 30 m (98 ft) | asphalt |
| 28 | 280° | |||
| 10L | 100° | 810 m (2,657 ft) | 20 m (65 ft) | grass |
| 28R | 280° |
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 LSZR for 2023-2025 show - counted hour by hour.
We computed these statistics from 26,289 METAR reports issued by LSZR in 2023-2025. VFR conditions prevailed 75% of the time, MVFR 15% and IFR or LIFR 10%. Best month for VFR flying: June (94% of hours VFR). Most IFR and LIFR hours: December (32%).
Through the day, IFR or LIFR conditions are most frequent around 05:00 UTC (15% of reports at that hour) and least frequent around 16:00 UTC (6%).
Fog (FG) was reported on 34 days a year on average, most often in December. Thunderstorms (TS) occurred on 16 days a year on average, and snowfall on 18.
The wind most often blows from W (270°) - 15% 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 25.0 °C); coldest: January (average low -0.3 °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: W - 15% 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 | 5.5 | -0.3 | 60% | 19% | 4.3 | 0 | 7 |
| February | 7.4 | 1.2 | 57% | 17% | 5 | 0 | 2.3 |
| March | 12.1 | 3.2 | 77% | 6% | 1.7 | 0.3 | 1.3 |
| April | 15.1 | 5.0 | 86% | 2% | 1 | 0.7 | 0.7 |
| May | 18.8 | 9.8 | 86% | 1% | 0 | 0.7 | 0 |
| June | 24.6 | 14.5 | 94% | 2% | 0.3 | 4 | 0 |
| July | 24.6 | 15.8 | 93% | 1% | 0.7 | 6.3 | 0 |
| August | 25.0 | 15.8 | 91% | 1% | 1.3 | 3 | 0 |
| September | 20.5 | 12.1 | 85% | 3% | 2 | 0.7 | 0 |
| October | 15.4 | 8.2 | 66% | 17% | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| November | 8.7 | 2.6 | 58% | 20% | 4.7 | 0 | 3.7 |
| December | 5.1 | 0.5 | 46% | 32% | 8.3 | 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), Sankt Gallen Altenrhein Airport (St. Gallen) has 2 runways: 10/28 - 1,455 m long (4,774 ft), 30 m wide, asphalt surface; 10L/28R - 810 m long (2,657 ft), 20 m wide, grass surface.
The longest of them is 10/28, at 1,455 m.
The airport combines paved and grass surfaces: 1 paved and 1 grass runway each.
The thresholds are oriented as follows: 10/28 on 100° and 280° magnetic, 10L/28R on 100° and 280° 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 10/28 axis, wind from the south (around 190°) or from the north (around 10°) blows perpendicular to the runway and produces the largest crosswind component. Wind from around 100° or 280° 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 Sankt Gallen Altenrhein Airport (St. Gallen) are published under the ICAO code LSZR. 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 LSZR 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 LSZR, check the nearby airports listed below.
Reports always use UTC (the Z suffix). The Europe/Zurich 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 Hohenems-Dornbirn Airfield (LOIH, 15 km), Friedrichshafen Airport (EDNY, 21 km), Sitterdorf Airfield (LSZV, 23 km). When no report is available for LSZR, they usually give the best approximation of conditions in the area.
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The METAR archive for LSZR goes back to 21/07/2001. Pick a date and see every observation from that day.
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