Mount Darwin Airport (FVMD)

Runways at FVMD

According to OurAirports data (compiled from AIP and FAA sources), Mount Darwin Airport has one runway: 10/28 - 1,113 m long (3,650 ft), 18 m wide, asphalt surface.

Runway headings and wind

The thresholds are oriented as follows: 10/28 on 100° and 280° 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 10/28 axis, wind from the south (around 190°) or from the north (around 10°) blows perpendicular to the runway and produces the largest crosswind component. Wind from around 100° or 280° 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 FVMD

Weather reports for Mount Darwin Airport are published under the ICAO code FVMD. 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 FVMD 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 FVMD, check the nearby airports listed below.

Reports always use UTC (the Z suffix). The Africa/Harare zone stays at GMT+02:00 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 Braebourne Airport (FVAE, 37 km), Centenary Airport (FVCN, 47 km), Dawsons Airport (Mvurwi) (FVDA, 75 km). When no report is available for FVMD, they usually give the best approximation of conditions in the area.