Brits Airport

FABS · North-West, South Africa

Climate Brits Airport 2020-2024

Climate and trends: average temperature, flight conditions, precipitation, wind speed and direction.

Calculated from historical METAR data of Lanseria International Airport (FALA) between 2020 and 2024.

VFR conditions (%)

Month Average 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020
January 83.1 89 88 80 74 85
February 79.2 86 66 91 73 85
March 84.9 87 84 84 83 84
April 83.5 86 93 74 93 78
May 93.7 97 80 91 97 98
June 93.3 95 93 91 93 93
July 94.2 99 82 97 94 93
August 94.6 93 96 94 92 96
September 92.8 86 92 96 94 88
October 89.4 91 86 95 80 82
November 86.7 88 77 82 82
December 79.8 78 85 79 78
Average 87.9 90.8 85.3 87.7 85.5 86.5

VFR conditions during daylight period

Percentage of observations where the VFR minimums for ceiling and visibility are met: visibility of 8 km or more and a ceiling of 3,000 ft or more. Only observations between sunrise and sunset are taken into account.

Marginal VFR conditions (%)

Month Average 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020
January 97.1 100 99 96 94 98
February 97.6 100 96 100 96 97
March 98.5 100 100 99 97 96
April 97.6 100 100 95 98 95
May 98.7 100 97 97 99 100
June 98.6 100 95 99 99 100
July 99.2 100 95 100 100 100
August 99.8 99 100 100 100 100
September 99.5 100 99 100 100 98
October 98.6 99 97 99 98 98
November 97.7 98 97 97 95
December 96.3 99 97 96 98
Average 98.3 99.7 97.9 98.2 97.7 97.8

Marginal VFR conditions or better during daylight period

Percentage of observations where the MVFR minimums for ceiling and visibility are met: visibility of 5 km or more and a ceiling of 1,000 ft or more. Only observations between sunrise and sunset are taken into account.

Maximum temperatures (°C)

Month Average 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020
January 27.7 28 29 26 27 28
February 27.2 30 26 28 26 28
March 27.0 30 27 26 26 26
April 23.9 24 25 22 26 23
May 22.2 25 21 21 22 22
June 19.7 20 21 19 20 18
July 19.8 21 19 20 18 20
August 22.7 24 22 22 22 22
September 26.8 26 27 27 27 26
October 27.7 28 27 29 26 28
November 27.8 28 25 28 27
December 27.3 28 27 26 27
Average 24.9 25.5 25.0 24.2 24.4 24.4

Average highest temperature per day

The maximum temperature is typically observed some hours after noon.

Minimum temperatures (°C)

Month Average 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020
January 16.6 17 16 17 17 17
February 16.7 17 17 16 17 17
March 15.2 17 15 15 14 15
April 11.5 12 11 11 11 12
May 7.7 9 9 7 7 7
June 4.4 4 5 4 5 3
July 3.9 3 4 5 3 3
August 7.1 7 6 7 7 6
September 10.8 12 10 11 11 11
October 13.6 13 14 15 12 15
November 14.9 16 14 15 15
December 16.5 17 16 15 17
Average 11.4 11.0 11.6 11.4 11.1 11.3

Average lowest temperature per day

The minimum temperature is typically observed just before sunrise.

Precipitation (%)

Month Average 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020
January 2.6 1 1 3 4 4
February 4.4 0 7 2 6 1
March 2.6 0 2 3 3 6
April 2.9 0 1 12 1 5
May 0.6 0 1 1 0 0
June 0.2 0 0 1 0 1
July 0.2 0 1 0 0 0
August 0.0 0 0 0 0 0
September 0.4 2 0 0 0 0
October 1.3 1 4 1 2 0
November 2.5 2 6 2 4
December 5.6 4 7 4 4
Average 1.9 0.4 1.8 2.7 2.0 2.1

Precipitation during daylight period

Percentage of observations with observed rain, drizzle, snow or hail. Only observations between sunrise and sunset are taken into account.

Wind speed (knots)

Month Average 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020
January 6.7 6 6 7 7 7
February 6.3 6 6 6 6 7
March 6.2 6 6 6 6 6
April 5.8 6 6 7 5 6
May 5.2 4 6 6 5 5
June 5.6 6 6 7 6 5
July 5.9 7 7 5 6 6
August 7.4 7 7 8 8 8
September 7.8 9 8 7 8 8
October 8.0 8 8 8 8 8
November 7.9 7 7 9 8
December 7.5 7 7 8 7
Average 6.7 6.6 6.7 6.5 6.9 6.7

Average wind speed

Excluding wind gusts. Only observations between sunrise and sunset are taken into account.

Prevailing wind direction

Month 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020
January 002° 013° 026° 034° 353°
February 320° 042° 020° 066° 036°
March 344° 359° 357° 317° 341°
April 348° 314° 348° 318° 338°
May 331° 333° 333° 292° 304°
June 343° 300° 041° 325° 327°
July 291° 330° 313° 306° 349°
August 323° 339° 316° 334° 310°
September 336° 320° 341° 340° 340°
October 349° 004° 337° 346° 357°
November 343° 343° 327° 335°
December 005° 325° 342° 352°

Prevailing wind direction

Average wind direction, weighed by wind speed. Only observations between sunrise and sunset are taken into account.