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Kimberley airport (South Africa)
Kimberley airport is located near Kimberley, with Ronald’s Vlei at 1mi↑, Kimberley at 5mi↑, Ritchie at 19mi↑, Barkly West at 24mi↑, Koffiefontein at 44mi↑, Warrenton at 48mi↑,→ See also Northernmost airports in South Africa and Southernmost airports in South Africa
→ See also airports in South Africa
aerial view of Kimberley airport
Airport code
- ICAO code : FAKM
- IATA code : KIM
- Local code : -
Elevation : 1204 m = 3950ft
→ See also Highest airports in South Africa and Lowest airports in South Africa
Runways
- runway 02/20 : 3000m = 9843ft
- runway 10/28 : 2439m = 8002ft
→ See also Airports with Longest runways in South Africa
Coming to Kimberley airport
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Aviation weather for Kimberley airport FAKM KIM
METAR for Kimberley airport FAKM KIM
FAKM 051200Z 30021G33KT CAVOK 31/M04 Q1013 NOSIG
Decoded METAR for Kimberley airport FAKM KIM
METAR issued by FAKM on Friday, September 5, 2025 at 12:00 UTC, Warning : this METAR is out of date, issued 2 days and 55 hours and -2842 minutes ago.
CAVOK = Ceiling And Visibility OK, visibility is more than 10 km, no clouds below 5000 ft or below the minimum sector altitude. No cumulonimbus or budding cumulus, regardless of their altitude and no Significant Weather
visibility is greater than 10km = greater than 6mi.
The temperature is 31°C = 88°F, dew point is -4°C = 25°F. The air is very dry : relative air humidity is 10 %.
QNH is 1013hPa = 29.91inHg
Wind 39km/h = 21kt with gusts at 61km/h = 33kt, direction is 300°.
Sky clear.
No significant change forecasted in next 2 hours
TAF for Kimberley airport FAKM KIM
FAKM 050900Z 0510/0518 33015KT CAVOK TX31/0512Z TN22/0518Z TEMPO 0510/0515 32018G30KT
Decoded TAF for Kimberley airport FAKM KIM
TAF issued by FAKM on Friday, September 5, 2025 at 09:00 UTC Warning : this TAF is out of date, issued 2 days and 10 hours and 38 minutes. weather forecast for 8 hours, weather forecast updated every 3 hours.
from Friday, September 5, 2025 à 10:00 heure TU to Friday, September 5, 2025 à 18:00 heure UTC
0510/0518 33015KT CAVOK TX31/0512Z TN22/0518Z
CAVOK = Ceiling And Visibility OK, visibility is more than 10 km, no clouds below 5000 ft or below the minimum sector altitude. No cumulonimbus or budding cumulus, regardless of their altitude and no Significant Weather
wind 15kt = 28km/h, direction is 330°
Visibility is greater than 10km = greater than 6mi.
temporarily from Friday, September 5, 2025 à 10:00 heure TU to Friday, September 5, 2025 à 15:00 heure UTC
TEMPO 0510/0515 32018G30KT
wind 18kt = 33km/h with gusts at 30kt = 56km/h, direction is 320°
NOTAM for Kimberley airport
Around Kimberley airport (South Africa)
near
- Hotels in Ronald’s Vlei
- Station de montagne La Molina at 5125mi↑
- Station de montagne Puigmal 2900 at 5128mi↑
- Station de montagne Le Cambre d'Aze at 5132mi↑
- Station de montagne Capcir at 5135mi↑
- Station de montagne Bolquère Pyrénées 2000 at 5135mi↑
- Station de montagne La Quillane at 5136mi↑
- Station de montagne Font-Romeu at 5136mi↑
- Station de montagne Les Angles at 5139mi↑
- Station de montagne La Rabassa at 5140mi↑
- Station de montagne Formiguères at 5142mi↑
- Station de montagne Porté Puymorens at 5142mi↑
- Station de montagne Puyvalador at 5143mi↑
- for Kimberley airport at 0mi↑
- for John Weston airport at 8mi↑
- for Modderrivier airport at 16mi↑
nearest airports to Kimberley airport (South Africa)
- John Weston airport ( ZA-0045) at 8mi↑
- Modderrivier airport ( ZA-0308) at 16mi↑
- Jacobsdal airport ( ZA-0145) at 22mi↑
- Farm Romance airport ( ZA-0284) at 22mi↑
- Barkly West airport ( ZA-0048) at 23mi↑
- Holpan airport ( ZA-0285) at 31mi↑
- Mokala airport ( ZA-0309) at 40mi↑
- Ulco airport (FAUC ) at 45mi↑NOTAM
- Schmidtsdrif airport ( ZA-0046) at 45mi↑
- Koffyfontein Min airport (FAKV ) at 46mi↑NOTAM
→ See also Former airports in South Africa
Data sources
- Infos générales : AVWX, France FFPLUM
- METAR : AVWX
- TAF : AVWX
- Météo générale : Openweathermap et AVWX
- NOTAM : FAA
- VAC : France DGAC/SIA, Espagne ENAIRE, Belgique SKEYES
- Aerial maps : Google Maps, Microsoft Bing ou OpenStreetMap