Kingscote Airport

YKSC · South Australia, Australia

METAR YKSC · Kingscote Airport

29 March 12:00 LT
39m
The METAR station used is 125 km away from the airport
Compass
Wind direction of Wind direction 240° Kingscote Airport 1/19
Wind: 9 kt, 3 beaufort

7 kt

6 kt
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CAVOK
METAR YPAD 290130Z 24009KT CAVOK 24/13 Q1022

METAR Kingscote Airport - YKSC/KGC

Kingscote Airport is a midsized airport in South Australia, Australia. The airport is located at latitude -35.71434 and longitude 137.52290. The airport has 3 runways: 1/19, 15/33 and 6/24. The ICAO airport code of this field is YKSC. The airport's IATA code is KGC. The airport is in the Melbourne FIR.

This aviation weather observation was made for Adelaide International Airport on March 29, 2024 12:00, local time.

Airport observations

The wind is from direction 240° with a speed of 9 kt.

The weather is CAVOK. That means there are no clouds below 5,000 ft or the MSA (minimum safe altitude), whichever is higher. This also means that no cumulonimbus or towering cumulus clouds have been observed and the visibility is 10 km or more or more. Furthermore, there can't be fog, precipitation nor other significant weather.

The temperature and wind chill are 24 °C. The dew point is 13 °C, the relative humidity is 50%. The air pressure at sea level is 1022 hPa (QNH).

Daylight period

Today the sun rises at 07:30 and sets at 19:18. This applies to Kingscote Airport, the universal daylight period may be different. The difference between the local time and UTC is +10 hour 30 minutes. Currently, there is no daylight saving time in effect.

Companies

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Experiences

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Runways

Id Heading Crosswind Headwind Crosswind %
1/19 021°-201° 6 kt 7 kt 63 %
15/33 157°-337° 9 kt 1 kt 99 %
6/24 066°-246° 9 kt 10 %

The direction with the greatest headwind component is highlighted and used for crosswind calculation. This does not necessarily mean this direction is in use.

Temperature & Weather

Temperature 24 °C
Dewpoint 13 °C
Rel. humidity 50%
Kp-index 1 (0-9)

Daylight period

Sunrise
07:26
Midday
13:20
Sunset
19:14 (6:35h)

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