Bultfontein Airport

FABU · Orange Free State, South Africa

Climate Bultfontein Airport 2020-2024

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

Calculated from historical METAR data of Bram Fischer International Airport (FABL) between 2020 and 2024.

VFR conditions (%)

Month Average 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020
January 90.4 97 89 90 72 92
February 88.9 95 75 96 86 90
March 90.6 95 85 88 89 89
April 89.3 87 94 84 97 84
May 94.7 100 80 96 97 98
June 93.8 90 87 91 96 97
July 95.1 97 88 94 94 95
August 94.8 100 85 94 92 96
September 93.0 92 73 95 99 92
October 94.7 98 87 94 91 97
November 94.1 93 86 94 93
December 89.9 84 89 85 93
Average 92.5 95.1 85.0 91.5 90.3 92.9

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 97.0 100 94 97 95 97
February 96.4 99 92 99 93 98
March 96.4 98 95 94 94 98
April 96.4 99 96 93 99 94
May 98.0 100 93 99 98 99
June 97.6 100 93 97 98 98
July 97.8 99 95 97 97 98
August 96.5 100 86 98 95 98
September 96.1 99 79 96 99 98
October 97.7 100 93 97 97 99
November 98.1 94 99 99 98
December 97.3 98 97 95 97
Average 97.2 99.4 92.2 96.8 96.4 97.6

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 29.7 30 31 28 27 30
February 28.5 31 28 29 28 28
March 27.6 31 28 25 27 26
April 23.8 24 25 22 26 22
May 21.7 25 21 21 21 21
June 18.7 18 18 19 19 18
July 18.5 18 18 19 17 19
August 20.9 23 22 21 20 20
September 25.2 23 25 26 26 24
October 27.4 27 28 29 25 29
November 29.0 31 26 28 28
December 29.2 30 28 26 29
Average 24.9 25.1 25.3 24.2 24.1 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 15.4 16 14 14 16 16
February 14.8 14 15 14 14 16
March 12.3 13 12 12 11 13
April 8.3 9 6 7 8 9
May 3.1 4 4 3 1 2
June -1.1 1 -1 -1 -1 -3
July -3.9 -4 -1 0 -4 -3
August 0.5 1 0 1 1 -2
September 5.6 6 4 7 7 5
October 9.5 9 9 12 8 10
November 11.9 13 11 10 13
December 14.1 15 13 13 15
Average 7.5 6.7 7.4 7.4 6.8 7.4

Average lowest temperature per day

The minimum temperature is typically observed just before sunrise.

Precipitation (%)

Month Average 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020
January 3.4 1 0 5 9 4
February 4.4 1 6 0 7 6
March 2.9 1 2 6 4 3
April 3.2 4 0 7 1 5
May 1.3 0 4 3 0 0
June 0.4 2 0 1 0 0
July 0.1 0 0 0 0 0
August 0.6 0 0 0 4 0
September 0.3 1 1 1 1 0
October 1.4 0 2 1 3 3
November 1.5 0 3 3 4
December 3.7 4 3 8 4
Average 2.0 0.8 1.5 2.4 3.4 2.5

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 7.3 7 6 6 7 8
February 6.7 7 6 6 6 6
March 6.7 8 7 6 7 7
April 5.9 7 5 6 6 6
May 4.9 4 5 5 6 4
June 5.6 6 5 5 7 5
July 6.0 6 6 5 7 6
August 6.9 8 4 7 8 7
September 7.5 8 5 7 10 8
October 7.7 7 6 8 9 8
November 8.7 6 9 9 9
December 8.8 9 8 9 8
Average 6.9 6.9 5.8 6.4 7.5 7.0

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 342° 005° 009° 023° 357°
February 325° 009° 340° 351° 006°
March 330° 002° 359° 319° 348°
April 354° 325° 351° 286° 345°
May 313° 355° 309° 297° 277°
June 345° 330° 352° 318° 314°
July 306° 318° 348° 316° 316°
August 316° 348° 310° 321° 299°
September 304° 307° 324° 332° 330°
October 305° 325° 334° 321° 327°
November 350° 345° 307° 328°
December 345° 340° 353° 335°

Prevailing wind direction

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