KEFD — Ellington
Houston, TX · field elevation 33 ft · Class D airspace · ATCT
KEFD current weather
VFR ceiling above 3,000 ft and visibility better than 5 statute miles
METAR KEFD 111154Z 00000KT 10SM FEW020 25/24 A3007
- Wind
- calm
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Sky
- few, no ceiling
- Temperature
- 25 °C / dewpoint 24 °C
- Altimeter
- 30.07 inHg
- Density altitude
- 1,043 ft · pressure altitude -117 ft
- Observed
- 19 minutes ago
48-hour trend
Eight days of observations, each readable in full — in the EFB →
Calculators: density altitude, pressure altitude, cloud base, crosswind
Weather cameras
4 within 20 nm, closest 18 nm. Last image 5 min ago.
View them, and the last eight hours — in the EFB →
Pilot reports
1 within 50 nm in the last six hours, 1,200–1,200 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 KEFD 110400Z 1104/1210 14006KT 9999 SCT030 BKN040 QNH3000INS BECMG 1120/1121 18006KT 9999 VCSH BKN025 OVC045 QNH3001INS BECMG 1200/1201 18006KT 9999 -SHRA FEW030 BKN085 QNH3000INS BECMG 1202/1203 17006KT 9999 NSW SCT120 BKN160 QNH3001INS TX30/1117Z TN26/1111Z
Learn: reading a TAF, the weather course
Airport information
- Coordinates
- 29.60733, -95.15875
- Elevation
- 33 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
- 1146Z / 0105Z
- Tower hours
- Continuous (24 hours)
- Magnetic variation
- 5° (2000)
- Fuel
- 100LL,A
- Sectional
- Houston
- County
- Harris, TX
Airport diagram
Everything else KEFD publishes — in the EFB →
Runways
| Runway | Length (ft) | Width (ft) | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17R/35L | 9,001 | 150 | CONC | HIGH |
| 04/22 | 8,001 | 150 | CONC | HIGH |
| 17L/35R | 4,609 | 75 | CONC | — |
Frequencies
- ATIS
- 135.575
- Tower Continuous (24 hours)
- 126.05
- Ground
- 121.6
- UNICOM
- 122.95
- Approach
- 134.45
Published procedures
- 13 approaches — ILS, LG, LOC, LS, RNAV (GPS)
- 17 departures published
- 8 arrivals published
Read the approach plates georeferenced — in the EFB →
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- KGLS Scholes Intl At Galveston26 nm
- KSGR Sugar Land Rgnl26 nm
Elsewhere
- Make a poster of the KEFD airport diagram or an approach plate
- Other Texas 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.