Airport and station records

The superlatives of the system: the longest runways, the highest and lowest fields, and the stations reporting weather from the edges of the map — including the South Pole.

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United States airports

From the FAA's national facility data. Runway records are limited to paved land airports — the raw data credits some seaplane bases with 26,000-foot "runways", which is a fact about lakes rather than pavement.

Longest paved runways

Highest airports

Lowest airports

Fields below sea level — almost all of them around the Salton Trough and Death Valley.

Weather stations, worldwide

Every station currently reporting a METAR, from more than 200 countries. Tap any report to decode it group by group.

Northernmost reporting right now

Southernmost reporting right now

Highest reporting right now

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