United Kingdom · elevation 257 ft AMSL
· 53.3494, -2.2795
Manchester Airport is an airport with the ICAO code EGCC and the IATA code MAN. Country: United Kingdom. Nearest settlement listed in the database: Manchester. OurAirports classifies it as a large airport. Its ICAO code starts with the EG prefix, which marks airports in United Kingdom. The four-letter code EGCC is used in flight operations and weather reports, while the three-letter IATA code MAN is used for ticketing and baggage handling. The airport reference point sits at 53°20'58"N, 2°16'46"W, at an elevation of 257 ft (78 m) above sea level. The applicable time zone is Europe/London.
Aerial imagery showing the runway and apron layout - the zoom is matched to the longest runway.
| Threshold | Course | Length | Width | Surface |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 05L | 50° | 3,048 m (10,000 ft) | 45 m (148 ft) | asphalt |
| 23R | 230° | |||
| 05R | 50° | 3,050 m (10,007 ft) | 45 m (148 ft) | asphalt |
| 23L | 230° |
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 EGCC for 2023-2025 show - counted hour by hour.
We computed these statistics from 26,291 METAR reports issued by EGCC in 2023-2025. VFR conditions prevailed 67% of the time, MVFR 26% and IFR or LIFR 7%. Best month for VFR flying: June (78% of hours VFR). Most IFR and LIFR hours: January (12%).
Through the day, IFR or LIFR conditions are most frequent around 05:00 UTC (11% of reports at that hour) and least frequent around 18:00 UTC (3%).
Fog (FG) was reported on 16 days a year on average, most often in January. Thunderstorms (TS) occurred on 1.3 days a year on average, and snowfall on 7.
The wind most often blows from S (180°) - 16% of reports. Calm (0 kt) made up <1% of reports, and gusts of 25 kt or more appeared in 1%. Warmest month: June (average high 20.2 °C); coldest: January (average low 1.5 °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: S - 16% 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 | 7.0 | 1.5 | 55% | 12% | 3 | 0 | 2.7 |
| February | 9.2 | 3.9 | 55% | 5% | 1 | 0 | 0.3 |
| March | 10.9 | 4.0 | 65% | 5% | 0.7 | 0 | 1.7 |
| April | 13.6 | 5.3 | 78% | 3% | 0.7 | 0 | 0 |
| May | 17.8 | 8.9 | 78% | 5% | 0 | 0.3 | 0 |
| June | 20.2 | 11.5 | 78% | 3% | 0.3 | 0.7 | 0 |
| July | 19.9 | 12.5 | 73% | 6% | 1.3 | 0 | 0 |
| August | 20.2 | 12.7 | 78% | 3% | 0.7 | 0 | 0 |
| September | 18.2 | 10.6 | 74% | 7% | 1 | 0.3 | 0 |
| October | 14.2 | 8.7 | 61% | 10% | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| November | 9.9 | 4.7 | 58% | 9% | 3 | 0 | 1.7 |
| December | 9.1 | 4.8 | 51% | 10% | 2 | 0 | 0.7 |
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), Manchester Airport has 2 runways: 05L/23R - 3,048 m long (10,000 ft), 45 m wide, asphalt surface; 05R/23L - 3,050 m long (10,007 ft), 45 m wide, asphalt surface.
The longest of them is 05R/23L, at 3,050 m.
The thresholds are oriented as follows: 05L/23R on 50° and 230° magnetic, 05R/23L on 50° and 230° 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 05L/23R axis, wind from the south-east (around 140°) or from the north-west (around 320°) blows perpendicular to the runway and produces the largest crosswind component. Wind from around 50° or 230° 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 Manchester Airport are published under the ICAO code EGCC. 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 EGCC 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 EGCC, 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 Manchester Barton Aerodrome (Manchester, Greater Manchester) (EGCB, 15 km), Ashcroft Airfield (Winsford, Cheshire) (EGCR, 28 km), Liverpool John Lennon Airport (EGGP, 38 km). When no report is available for EGCC, they usually give the best approximation of conditions in the area.
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