RAF Honington (Bury Saint Edmunds, Suffolk) (EGXH / BEQ)

Runways at EGXH

According to OurAirports data (compiled from AIP and FAA sources), RAF Honington (Bury Saint Edmunds, Suffolk) has one runway: 09/27 - 2,747 m long (9,012 ft), 61 m wide, asphalt surface.

Runway headings and wind

The thresholds are oriented as follows: 09/27 on 90° and 270° 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 09/27 axis, wind from the south (around 180°) or from the north (around 360°) blows perpendicular to the runway and produces the largest crosswind component. Wind from around 90° or 270° acts along the runway, as a headwind or a tailwind. The decoder on this page computes those components automatically from the current METAR.

METAR and TAF for EGXH

Weather reports for RAF Honington (Bury Saint Edmunds, Suffolk) are published under the ICAO code EGXH. 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 EGXH 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 EGXH, 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 RAF Lakenheath (Brandon, Suffolk) (EGUL, 16 km), RAF Mildenhall (Bury Saint Edmunds, Suffolk) (EGUN, 20 km), Old Buckenham Airfield (Old Buckenham, Norfolk) (EGSV, 26 km). When no report is available for EGXH, they usually give the best approximation of conditions in the area.