Al Ghaydah International Airport (OYGD / AAY)

Runways at OYGD

According to OurAirports data (compiled from AIP and FAA sources), Al Ghaydah International Airport has one runway: 08/26 - 2,700 m long (8,858 ft), 45 m wide, asphalt surface.

Runway headings and wind

The thresholds are oriented as follows: 08/26 on 80° and 260° 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.

METAR and TAF for OYGD

Weather reports for Al Ghaydah International Airport are published under the ICAO code OYGD. 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 OYGD 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 OYGD, check the nearby airports listed below.

Reports always use UTC (the Z suffix). The Asia/Aden zone stays at GMT+03:00 year-round, so converting to local time is always the same shift.

The closest airports in the database, measured in a straight line from the reference point, are Qishn Airport (OYQN, 101 km), Salalah International Airport (OOSA, 225 km), Thumrait Air Base (OOTH, 256 km). When no report is available for OYGD, they usually give the best approximation of conditions in the area.