KCHO — Charlottesville-Albemarle
Charlottesville, VA · field elevation 640 ft · Class D airspace · ATCT
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KCHO current weather
VFR ceiling above 3,000 ft and visibility better than 5 statute miles
METAR KCHO 111153Z 00000KT 10SM CLR 22/21 A2998 RMK AO2 SLP146 60002 7//// T02220206 10239 20206 58001
- Wind
- calm
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Sky
- clear below 12,000 ft
- Temperature
- 22 °C / dewpoint 21 °C
- Altimeter
- 29.98 inHg
- Density altitude
- 1,572 ft · pressure altitude 580 ft
- Observed
- 21 minutes ago
48-hour trend
Eight days of observations, each readable in full — in the EFB →
Calculators: density altitude, pressure altitude, cloud base, crosswind
Pilot reports
1 within 50 nm in the last six hours, 36,000–36,000 ft.
Read them where they were filed — in the EFB →
Forecast
MOS guidance beside this TAF, both drawn along your route — in the EFB →
TAF KCHO 111139Z 1112/1212 VRB03KT P6SM OVC150 FM111600 25007KT P6SM SCT060 BKN200 PROB30 1119/1122 4SM -TSRA OVC040CB FM120200 22004KT 6SM -SHRA BKN040 OVC100 PROB30 1202/1205 4SM -TSRA OVC040CB FM120600 28003KT P6SM BKN050 OVC110
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Airport information
- Coordinates
- 38.13964, -78.45234
- Elevation
- 640 ft MSL
- Surface airspace
-
Class D
Two-way radio communication must be established before you enter, while the tower is open.
The same callsign rule as Class C. When the tower closes the airspace usually reverts to Class E, or to Class G where no surface area is charted — the Chart Supplement entry says which, and the hours are on the sectional. A surface area normally extends to 2,500 ft above the field, with the ceiling charted in a dashed blue box as a number in hundreds of feet.
- Sunrise / sunset
- 1025Z / 0012Z
- Tower hours
- 0600-2300
- Magnetic variation
- -8° (1985)
- Fuel
- 100LL,A
- Sectional
- Washington
- County
- Albemarle, VA
Airport diagram
Everything else KCHO publishes — in the EFB →
Runways
| Runway | Length (ft) | Width (ft) | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 03/21 | 6,801 | 150 | ASPH | HIGH |
Frequencies
- ATIS
- 118.425
- Tower 0600-2300
- 124.5
- Ground
- 121.9
- CTAF
- 124.5
- UNICOM
- 122.95
- Approach
- 120.525
- Approach
- 132.85
Published procedures
- 5 approaches — ILS, LD, LOC, RNAV (GPS)
Read the approach plates georeferenced — in the EFB →
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Elsewhere
- Make a poster of the KCHO airport diagram or an approach plate
- Other Virginia airports
- How to read a METAR
- What VFR, MVFR, IFR and LIFR actually mean
- Live records — the strongest winds and lowest ceilings in the country right now
Weather from METAR and TAF, National Weather Service Aviation Weather Center. Airport, runway, frequency and procedure data from the FAA NASR 28-day cycle; charts from the FAA d-TPP. Advisory only — this is not a weather briefing.