RAF Boulmer (Alnwick, Northumberland) (EGQM)

United Kingdom · elevation 77 ft AMSL · 55.4203, -1.5997 · Local time: --:--:-- · UTC time: --:--:--

About RAF Boulmer (Alnwick, Northumberland)

RAF Boulmer (Alnwick, Northumberland) is an airport with the ICAO code EGQM. Country: United Kingdom. Nearest settlement listed in the database: Alnwick, Northumberland. OurAirports classifies it as a heliport. Its ICAO code starts with the EG prefix, which marks airports in United Kingdom. No IATA code is assigned, which is typical for airports without scheduled traffic. The airport reference point sits at 55°25'13"N, 1°35'59"W, at an elevation of 77 ft (23 m) above sea level. The applicable time zone is Europe/London.

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Climate at RAF Boulmer (Alnwick, Northumberland) - statistics from METAR reports

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

We computed these statistics from 26,288 METAR reports issued by EGQM in 2023-2025. VFR conditions prevailed 63% of the time, MVFR 23% and IFR or LIFR 14%. Best month for VFR flying: August (75% of hours VFR). Most IFR and LIFR hours: May (25%).

Through the day, IFR or LIFR conditions are most frequent around 06:00 UTC (16% of reports at that hour) and least frequent around 15:00 UTC (11%).

Fog (FG) was reported on 27 days a year on average, most often in May. Thunderstorms (TS) occurred on 0 days a year on average, and snowfall on 5.3.

The wind most often blows from W (270°) - 12% of reports. Calm (0 kt) made up 1% of reports, and gusts of 25 kt or more appeared in 4%. Warmest month: August (average high 19.0 °C); coldest: January (average low 2.2 °C).

Year

Period

Selected period in numbers: 2023-2025

VFR hours: 63%
IFR/LIFR hours: 14%
Avg high: 12.9 °C
Avg low: 7.1 °C
Fog days: 27
Thunderstorm days: 0
Snow days: 5.3
Prevailing wind: W · 12%
Gusts ≥ 25 kt: 4%

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

Flight categories month by month

VFR 63%
MVFR 23%
IFR 7%
LIFR 7%

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: W - 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

Month	Avg high °C	Avg low °C	VFR	IFR/LIFR	Fog days	Snow days
January	7.2	2.2	70%	8%	1	2
February	9.0	3.8	60%	10%	1.7	0
March	9.5	3.6	58%	17%	2	0.3
April	10.9	4.9	60%	16%	2.7	0
May	14.2	8.3	54%	25%	6.7	0
June	17.7	10.3	72%	6%	1.3	0
July	18.3	11.9	68%	15%	3.3	0
August	19.0	11.9	75%	7%	0.3	0
September	16.4	10.2	67%	16%	2.7	0
October	13.6	8.1	60%	19%	3.3	0
November	9.9	4.9	56%	16%	2	2.3
December	9.1	4.7	54%	12%	0.3	0.7

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

METAR and TAF for EGQM

Weather reports for RAF Boulmer (Alnwick, Northumberland) are published under the ICAO code EGQM. 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 EGQM 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 EGQM, check the nearby airports listed below.

Reports always use UTC (the Z suffix). The Europe/London zone is GMT+00:00 in winter and GMT+01:00 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 Newcastle International Airport (Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear) (EGNT, 43 km), RAF Spadeadam (EGOM, 73 km), Carlisle Lake District Airport (Carlisle, Cumbria) (EGNC, 94 km). When no report is available for EGQM, they usually give the best approximation of conditions in the area.

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