Alliance Municipal Airport

KAIA · Nebraska, United States

Climate Alliance Municipal Airport 2020-2024

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

Calculated from historical METAR data of Alliance Municipal Airport (KAIA) between 2020 and 2024.

VFR conditions (%)

Month Average 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020
January 81.4 74 62 85 81 92
February 75.6 73 78 74 74 77
March 76.1 81 65 78 82 72
April 82.6 78 86 88 80 91
May 77.6 75 78 79 82
June 92.8 82 97 96 99
July 88.6 74 94 89 95
August 92.2 93 92 91 100
September 87.2 86 90 93 95
October 82.7 78 88 88 83
November 85.8 81 89 91 95
December 82.0 86 60 90 88
Average 83.2 76.7 78.6 85.4 86.3 89.1

VFR conditions during daylight period

Percentage of observations where the VFR minimums for ceiling and visibility are met: visibility of 5 mi 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 87.7 79 68 91 94 96
February 85.0 75 82 83 86 88
March 85.6 90 81 88 90 77
April 91.6 96 91 93 89 96
May 88.2 84 88 91 91
June 96.7 92 98 99 100
July 93.7 81 98 94 98
August 96.5 96 98 96 100
September 94.1 92 95 99 99
October 90.6 83 96 94 92
November 91.2 87 93 94 98
December 88.2 90 64 97 96
Average 90.5 85.8 85.6 91.4 93.6 94.1

Marginal VFR conditions or better during daylight period

Percentage of observations where the MVFR minimums for ceiling and visibility are met: visibility of 3⅛ mi 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 3.5 2 0 6 6 6
February 4.2 10 3 5 -3 6
March 10.3 12 7 11 11 11
April 15.7 17 16 16 16 16
May 20.1 23 20 20 20
June 28.2 26 29 30 30
July 31.7 30 33 33 33
August 30.8 31 33 33 34
September 26.7 27 29 28 26
October 16.1 17 18 18 16
November 10.8 12 8 14 14
December 5.5 8 0 8 8
Average 16.1 9.9 16.8 17.8 17.9 18.1

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 -11.3 -13 -12 -11 -8 -9
February -11.4 -6 -10 -11 -14 -9
March -6.7 -5 -6 -7 -4 -4
April -2.5 1 -3 -1 -2 -4
May 5.0 7 4 5 6
June 11.2 11 11 13 12
July 14.6 13 15 16 15
August 12.9 13 14 13 13
September 8.3 9 8 9 6
October -1.0 0 0 1 -3
November -6.1 -6 -9 -3 -6
December -10.5 -7 -12 -8 -10
Average -1.9 -6.1 0.9 0.4 1.3 0.6

Average lowest temperature per day

The minimum temperature is typically observed just before sunrise.

Precipitation (%)

Month Average 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020
January 7.9 12 26 8 3 2
February 10.7 15 12 15 10 10
March 7.5 6 14 8 8 5
April 8.3 11 11 7 11 6
May 6.8 6 11 2 5
June 1.8 3 1 1 2
July 1.0 3 1 1 1
August 1.0 1 0 1 0
September 1.8 4 2 1 2
October 4.5 8 1 4 4
November 4.5 9 5 0 1
December 9.2 8 27 5 3
Average 5.7 10.8 8.1 6.4 3.7 3.3

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 10.0 9 8 13 11 11
February 11.0 11 10 13 10 12
March 11.6 11 12 13 11 13
April 12.6 13 12 16 12 12
May 10.4 10 11 11 11
June 9.1 9 9 9 10
July 8.2 7 8 9 8
August 8.7 9 8 9 9
September 9.2 9 9 9 10
October 10.7 10 10 11 11
November 10.5 10 12 12 9
December 11.1 11 13 11 11
Average 10.3 11.0 9.6 11.2 10.3 10.4

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 318° 319° 296° 298° 281°
February 286° 299° 303° 256° 304°
March 298° 290° 320° 291° 279°
April 309° 317° 300° 324° 315°
May 163° 271° 123° 154°
June 137° 225° 135° 275°
July 115° 144° 128° 144°
August 270° 121° 179° 141°
September 310° 160° 285° 293°
October 318° 308° 301° 290°
November 297° 302° 285° 259°
December 298° 306° 254° 297°

Prevailing wind direction

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