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KMER — Castle
Atwater, CA · field elevation 190 ft · Class D airspace · ATCT
KMER current weather
No recent observation is archived for KMER.
48-hour trend
Eight days of observations, each readable in full — in the EFB →
Calculators: density altitude, pressure altitude, cloud base, crosswind
Forecast
No TAF is issued for KMER — forecasters write them for about 700 US terminals, and this is not one.
MOS model forecasts for KMER — in the EFB →
Airport information
- Coordinates
- 37.38048, -120.56819
- Elevation
- 190 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
- 1315Z / 0259Z
- Tower hours
- 0700-2100
- Magnetic variation
- 15° (2000)
- Fuel
- 100LL,A,A1
- Sectional
- San Francisco
- County
- Merced, CA
Airport diagram
Everything else KMER publishes — in the EFB →
Runways
| Runway | Length (ft) | Width (ft) | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13/31 | 11,802 | 150 | ASPH-CONC | HIGH |
Frequencies
- ATIS
- 124.475
- Tower 0700-2100
- 118.175
- Ground
- 133.575
- CTAF
- 118.175
- UNICOM
- 122.95
- Approach
- 120.95
Published procedures
- 5 approaches — ILS, LG, LOC, RNAV (GPS)
Read the approach plates georeferenced — in the EFB →
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- KMAE Madera Muni32 nm
- KSCK Stockton Metro44 nm
- KTCY Tracy Muni46 nm
- KCPU Calaveras County/Maury Rasmussen Fld46 nm
Elsewhere
- Make a poster of the KMER airport diagram or an approach plate
- Other California 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.