United States · elevation 242 ft AMSL
· 61.5949, -149.0890
Warren "Bud" Woods Palmer Municipal Airport is an airport with the ICAO code PAAQ and the IATA code PAQ. Country: United States. Nearest settlement listed in the database: Palmer. OurAirports classifies it as a medium-sized airport. Its ICAO code starts with the PA prefix, which marks airports in United States. The four-letter code PAAQ is used in flight operations and weather reports, while the three-letter IATA code PAQ is used for ticketing and baggage handling. The airport reference point sits at 61°35'42"N, 149°05'20"W, at an elevation of 242 ft (74 m) above sea level. The applicable time zone is America/Anchorage.
Aerial imagery showing the runway and apron layout - the zoom is matched to the longest runway.
| Threshold | Course | Length | Width | Surface |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 09 | 90° | 1,102 m (3,617 ft) | 23 m (75 ft) | asphalt |
| 27 | 270° | |||
| 16 | 160° | 1,831 m (6,006 ft) | 30 m (100 ft) | asphalt |
| 34 | 340° | |||
| 16S | 160° | 475 m (1,560 ft) | 18 m (60 ft) | unpaved |
| 34S | 340° |
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 PAAQ for 2023-2025 show - counted hour by hour.
We computed these statistics from 26,250 METAR reports issued by PAAQ in 2023-2025. VFR conditions prevailed 88% of the time, MVFR 6% and IFR or LIFR 6%. Best month for VFR flying: June (95% of hours VFR). Most IFR and LIFR hours: November (14%).
Through the day, IFR or LIFR conditions are most frequent around 15:00 UTC (8% of reports at that hour) and least frequent around 02:00 UTC (4%).
Fog (FG) was reported on 23 days a year on average, most often in November. Thunderstorms (TS) occurred on 0 days a year on average, and snowfall on 51.
The wind most often blows from N (0°) - 17% of reports. Calm (0 kt) made up 25% of reports, and gusts of 25 kt or more appeared in 7%. Warmest month: July (average high 19.8 °C); coldest: December (average low -10.6 °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: N - 17% 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 | -2.1 | -8.5 | 88% | 5% | 2.3 | 0 | 6.3 |
| February | -2.3 | -9.4 | 86% | 6% | 1.7 | 0 | 9.3 |
| March | 3.2 | -4.5 | 90% | 5% | 1.3 | 0 | 6 |
| April | 8.2 | -0.2 | 88% | 5% | 0.7 | 0 | 6 |
| May | 14.1 | 5.3 | 93% | 1% | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| June | 18.6 | 9.2 | 95% | <1% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| July | 19.8 | 11.3 | 88% | 4% | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| August | 18.7 | 10.5 | 90% | 3% | 0.7 | 0 | 0 |
| September | 13.5 | 6.5 | 89% | 5% | 1.7 | 0 | 0 |
| October | 7.1 | 0.2 | 85% | 8% | 3.7 | 0 | 3 |
| November | -1.2 | -7.3 | 77% | 14% | 5.7 | 0 | 9 |
| December | -3.9 | -10.6 | 84% | 10% | 4 | 0 | 11 |
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), Warren "Bud" Woods Palmer Municipal Airport has 3 runways: 09/27 - 1,102 m long (3,617 ft), 23 m wide, asphalt surface; 16/34 - 1,831 m long (6,006 ft), 30 m wide, asphalt surface; 16S/34S - 475 m long (1,560 ft), 18 m wide, unpaved surface.
The longest of them is 16/34, at 1,831 m.
The thresholds are oriented as follows: 09/27 on 90° and 270° magnetic, 16/34 on 160° and 340° magnetic, 16S/34S on 160° and 340° 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.
Weather reports for Warren "Bud" Woods Palmer Municipal Airport are published under the ICAO code PAAQ. 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 PAAQ 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 PAAQ, check the nearby airports listed below.
Reports always use UTC (the Z suffix). The America/Anchorage zone is GMT-09:00 in winter and GMT-08:00 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 Wasilla Airport (PAWS, 24 km), Birchwood Airport (PABV, 30 km), Big Lake Airport (PAGQ, 39 km). When no report is available for PAAQ, they usually give the best approximation of conditions in the area.
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