United States · elevation 5512 ft AMSL
· 39.7842, -104.5376
Colorado Air and Space Port (Denver) is an airport with the ICAO code KCFO. Country: United States. Nearest settlement listed in the database: Denver. OurAirports classifies it as a small airport. Its ICAO code starts with the KC prefix, which marks airports in United States. No IATA code is assigned, which is typical for airports without scheduled traffic. The airport reference point sits at 39°47'03"N, 104°32'16"W, at an elevation of 5,512 ft (1,680 m) above sea level. The applicable time zone is America/Denver.
Aerial imagery showing the runway and apron layout - the zoom is matched to the longest runway.
| Threshold | Course | Length | Width | Surface |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 08 | 80° | 2,439 m (8,002 ft) | 30 m (100 ft) | asphalt |
| 26 | 260° | |||
| 17 | 170° | 2,438 m (8,000 ft) | 30 m (100 ft) | asphalt |
| 35 | 350° |
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 KCFO for 2023-2025 show - counted hour by hour.
We computed these statistics from 20,852 METAR reports issued by KCFO in 2023-2025. VFR conditions prevailed 90% of the time, MVFR 4% and IFR or LIFR 6%. Best month for VFR flying: September (96% of hours VFR). Most IFR and LIFR hours: April (11%).
Through the day, IFR or LIFR conditions are most frequent around 14:00 UTC (9% of reports at that hour) and least frequent around 21:00 UTC (3%).
Fog (FG) was reported on 9.6 days a year on average, most often in March. Thunderstorms (TS) occurred on 7.7 days a year on average, and snowfall on 28.
The wind most often blows from S (180°) - 14% of reports. Calm (0 kt) made up 10% of reports, and gusts of 25 kt or more appeared in 3%. Warmest month: July (average high 32.5 °C); coldest: January (average low -7.2 °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: S - 14% 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 | 4.2 | -7.2 | 83% | 10% | 1.5 | 0 | 7.7 |
| February | 8.3 | -4.3 | 87% | 10% | 1.1 | 0 | 4.6 |
| March | 13.4 | -0.5 | 85% | 9% | 1.5 | 0.4 | 3.4 |
| April | 18.6 | 3.2 | 83% | 11% | 1.1 | 1.1 | 3.9 |
| May | 22.2 | 8.8 | 85% | 8% | 0.7 | 2.1 | 0.4 |
| June | 29.0 | 14.1 | 91% | 4% | 0 | 1.8 | 0 |
| July | 32.5 | 17.0 | 96% | 3% | 0.7 | 1 | 0 |
| August | 31.8 | 17.1 | 94% | 3% | 1.3 | 0.3 | 0 |
| September | 28.8 | 12.9 | 96% | 2% | 0 | 1 | 0.3 |
| October | 22.7 | 7.7 | 93% | 3% | 0.8 | 0 | 0.8 |
| November | 12.7 | 0.1 | 91% | 5% | 0.5 | 0 | 4.3 |
| December | 12.8 | -1.3 | 95% | 3% | 0.4 | 0 | 2.1 |
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), Colorado Air and Space Port (Denver) has 2 runways: 08/26 - 2,439 m long (8,002 ft), 30 m wide, asphalt surface; 17/35 - 2,438 m long (8,000 ft), 30 m wide, asphalt surface.
The longest of them is 08/26, at 2,439 m.
The thresholds are oriented as follows: 08/26 on 80° and 260° magnetic, 17/35 on 170° and 350° 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 08/26 axis, wind from the south (around 170°) or from the north (around 350°) blows perpendicular to the runway and produces the largest crosswind component. Wind from around 80° or 260° 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 Colorado Air and Space Port (Denver) are published under the ICAO code KCFO. 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 KCFO 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 KCFO, check the nearby airports listed below.
Reports always use UTC (the Z suffix). The America/Denver zone is GMT-07:00 in winter and GMT-06:00 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 Denver International Airport (KDEN, 14 km), Buckley Space Force Base (Aurora) (KBKF, 20 km), Centennial Airport (Denver) (KAPA, 36 km). When no report is available for KCFO, they usually give the best approximation of conditions in the area.
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