Runways at KIOB
According to OurAirports data (compiled from AIP and FAA sources), Mount Sterling Montgomery County Airport has one runway: 03/21 - 1,524 m long (5,000 ft), 23 m wide, asphalt surface.
Mount Sterling Montgomery County Airport (KIOB)
United States · elevation 1019 ft AMSL
· 38.0581, -83.9796
About Mount Sterling Montgomery County Airport
Mount Sterling Montgomery County Airport is an airport with the ICAO code KIOB. Country: United States. Nearest settlement listed in the database: Mount Sterling. OurAirports classifies it as a small airport. Its ICAO code starts with the KI 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 38°03'29"N, 83°58'47"W, at an elevation of 1,019 ft (311 m) above sea level. The applicable time zone is America/New_York.
Satellite view of KIOB
Aerial imagery showing the runway and apron layout - the zoom is matched to the longest runway.
Runways of KIOB
| Threshold | Course | Length | Width | Surface |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 03 | 30° | 1,524 m (5,000 ft) | 23 m (75 ft) | asphalt |
| 21 | 210° |
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.
Climate at Mount Sterling Montgomery County Airport - statistics from METAR reports
What the METAR reports from KIOB for 2023-2025 show - counted hour by hour.
We computed these statistics from 25,998 METAR reports issued by KIOB in 2023-2025. VFR conditions prevailed 80% of the time, MVFR 13% and IFR or LIFR 7%. Best month for VFR flying: August (89% of hours VFR). Most IFR and LIFR hours: January (13%).
Through the day, IFR or LIFR conditions are most frequent around 11:00 UTC (12% of reports at that hour) and least frequent around 22:00 UTC (4%).
Fog practically did not occur here. Thunderstorms (TS) occurred on 0 days a year on average, and snowfall practically never.
The wind most often blows from SW (225°) - 9% of reports. Calm (0 kt) made up 43% of reports, and gusts of 25 kt or more appeared in 1%. Warmest month: July (average high 30.3 °C); coldest: January (average low -2.5 °C).
Year
Selected period in numbers: 2023-2025
- VFR hours
- 80%
- IFR/LIFR hours
- 7%
- Avg high
- 19.6 °C
- Avg low
- 8.6 °C
- Fog days
- 0
- Thunderstorm days
- 0
- Snow days
- 0.3
- Prevailing wind
- SW · 9%
- Gusts ≥ 25 kt
- 1%
Day counts are for the selected period (for all years - the yearly average).
- VFR 80%
- MVFR 13%
- IFR 5%
- LIFR 2%
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: 43%
Most often: SW - 9% 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 | Thunderstorm days | Snow days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 5.3 | -2.5 | 65% | 13% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| February | 11.8 | 0.6 | 75% | 7% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| March | 15.4 | 3.8 | 83% | 6% | 0 | 0 | 0.3 |
| April | 20.3 | 8.5 | 84% | 4% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| May | 23.5 | 12.5 | 84% | 7% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| June | 28.4 | 16.6 | 85% | 5% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| July | 30.3 | 19.5 | 88% | 4% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| August | 29.1 | 17.1 | 89% | 4% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| September | 27.0 | 14.5 | 86% | 7% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| October | 21.0 | 8.3 | 88% | 6% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| November | 14.0 | 4.1 | 73% | 11% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| December | 8.9 | 0.7 | 60% | 11% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Temperatures are averages of daily highs and lows. Day counts are the average per month over the period.
Runway headings and wind
The thresholds are oriented as follows: 03/21 on 30° and 210° 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 03/21 axis, wind from the south-east (around 120°) or from the north-west (around 300°) blows perpendicular to the runway and produces the largest crosswind component. Wind from around 30° or 210° 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 KIOB
Weather reports for Mount Sterling Montgomery County Airport are published under the ICAO code KIOB. 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 KIOB 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 KIOB, check the nearby airports listed below.
Reports always use UTC (the Z suffix). The America/New_York zone is GMT-05:00 in winter and GMT-04:00 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 Morehead-Rowan County Clyde A. Thomas Regional Airport (KSYM, 38 km), Blue Grass Airport (Lexington) (KLEX, 55 km), Central Kentucky Regional Airport (Richmond) (KRGA, 57 km). When no report is available for KIOB, they usually give the best approximation of conditions in the area.
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