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London helicopter weather
Wind and gusts in knots, visibility and cloud at the heliport, with the next twelve hours and a seven-day outlook.
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Next 12 hours: wind and gusts, knots
Bar is mean wind; the dark line is gusts. Hours are London time.
Seven days
Forecast from Open-Meteo, updated hourly. Pilots use official aviation forecasts (TAFs and METARs) and the operator's own minima. Helicopter flights in the London control zones also need visibility and cloud above the minima in the UK AIP.
Why weather matters for helicopters
Helicopters are limited by visibility and cloud base more than by wind. Under the UK rules for the London control zones, Special VFR flights along the routes need at least 1 km flight visibility today, and the CAA has decided to raise the minimum for the Restricted Area to 3,000 m visibility and a 1,000 ft cloud ceiling from the November 2026 AIRAC cycle. Read the change.
Sources and checks
Facts on this page come from these sources, last checked 2026-11-03. Where a source could not be reached or did not say, we left the fact out.
- Open-Meteo open-meteo.com
- CAA CAP 3147 caa.co.uk