United Kingdom · elevation 92 ft AMSL
· 54.2041, -1.3803
RAF Topcliffe (Thirsk, North Yorkshire) is an airport with the ICAO code EGXZ. Country: United Kingdom. Nearest settlement listed in the database: Thirsk, North Yorkshire. OurAirports classifies it as a medium-sized airport. 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 54°12'15"N, 1°22'49"W, at an elevation of 92 ft (28 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 02 | 20° | 1,813 m (5,948 ft) | 45 m (148 ft) | asphalt |
| 20 | 200° | |||
| 13 | 130° | 1,246 m (4,088 ft) | 45 m (148 ft) | asphalt |
| 31 | 310° |
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 EGXZ for 2023-2025 show - counted hour by hour.
We computed these statistics from 26,190 METAR reports issued by EGXZ in 2023-2025. VFR conditions prevailed 60% of the time, MVFR 26% and IFR or LIFR 14%. Best month for VFR flying: June (77% of hours VFR). Most IFR and LIFR hours: December (21%).
Through the day, IFR or LIFR conditions are most frequent around 04:00 UTC (21% of reports at that hour) and least frequent around 17:00 UTC (7%).
Fog (FG) was reported on 54 days a year on average, most often in October. Thunderstorms (TS) occurred on 0 days a year on average, and snowfall on 5.7.
The wind most often blows from SE (135°) - 10% of reports. Calm (0 kt) made up 1% of reports, and gusts of 25 kt or more appeared in 2%. Warmest month: July (average high 20.9 °C); coldest: January (average low 0.2 °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: SE - 10% 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 | 6.9 | 0.2 | 54% | 17% | 5.3 | 0 | 0.7 |
| February | 9.2 | 2.8 | 48% | 12% | 3.3 | 0 | 1.3 |
| March | 10.8 | 2.6 | 52% | 14% | 4 | 0 | 2 |
| April | 13.4 | 4.0 | 66% | 11% | 3.7 | 0 | 0 |
| May | 17.3 | 7.6 | 64% | 13% | 3.3 | 0 | 0 |
| June | 20.5 | 10.0 | 77% | 3% | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| July | 20.9 | 11.7 | 73% | 11% | 4.7 | 0 | 0 |
| August | 20.8 | 11.4 | 76% | 6% | 2.7 | 0 | 0 |
| September | 18.4 | 9.5 | 60% | 18% | 6 | 0 | 0 |
| October | 14.3 | 7.2 | 54% | 19% | 7.3 | 0 | 0 |
| November | 9.9 | 3.4 | 52% | 18% | 6.4 | 0 | 1 |
| December | 8.9 | 4.0 | 44% | 21% | 6 | 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), RAF Topcliffe (Thirsk, North Yorkshire) has 2 runways: 02/20 - 1,813 m long (5,948 ft), 45 m wide, asphalt surface; 13/31 - 1,246 m long (4,088 ft), 45 m wide, asphalt surface.
The longest of them is 02/20, at 1,813 m.
The thresholds are oriented as follows: 02/20 on 20° and 200° magnetic, 13/31 on 130° and 310° 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 02/20 axis, wind from the east (around 110°) or from the west (around 290°) blows perpendicular to the runway and produces the largest crosswind component. Wind from around 20° or 200° 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 RAF Topcliffe (Thirsk, North Yorkshire) are published under the ICAO code EGXZ. 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 EGXZ 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 EGXZ, 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 Bagby Thirsk Airfield (Thirsk, North Yorkshire) (EGNG, 6 km), RAF Leeming (Northallerton, North Yorkshire) (EGXE, 15 km), Rufforth West Airfield (York, North Yorkshire) (EGYJ, 31 km). When no report is available for EGXZ, they usually give the best approximation of conditions in the area.
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