KBCT Boca Raton

WIND_INFERRED 90%

Runway 5 — favored by the wind (14 kt at 30° true)

Based on wind only — no traffic or ATIS to confirm. No D-ATIS feed here — a voice ATIS/AWOS may exist; check the frequency.

certainty: 90% evidence: WEAK Class D

Wind 030° true at 14 kt · MVFR · 25 min old · from KDJT (18.4 nm away)

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5 99% 6276 ft · 14 kt head, 3 kt x-left

23 <1% 6276 ft · 14 kt TAIL, 3 kt x-right · right traffic

Active NOTAMs affecting runways

LIGHTING RWY 5 until 01-31 22:00Z

RWY 05 RWY END ID LGT U/S

Why — evidence behind this answer

Runway 5

WIND 14 kt headwind, 3 kt left crosswind 25 min ago +2.68

Runway 23

WIND 14 kt TAILWIND, 3 kt right crosswind 25 min ago -25.62

Sources consulted

source	status	age	note
D_ATIS	UNAVAILABLE		No D-ATIS at this field
METAR	OK	25 min	Nearest station KDJT (18.4 nm away)
ADSB	OK	8 min	MODERATE
NOTAM	OK
CIFP	NOT_CONFIGURED		Instrument procedures: phase 4

Recent operations

No operations observed in the last hour.

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KBCT field & runways

Boca Raton, Boca Raton, Florida. Field elevation 13 ft. Class D airspace. Towered. Magnetic variation 5.0°W on record, 7.5°W today.

The FAA's variation of record is the number this field was surveyed against; the second is where north points now, from WMM2025. It is moving 0.082°/year west — about 1° every 12 years — which is why runway numbers eventually stop matching their pavement.

Runway data from the FAA NASR 01 Oct 2026 cycle. Where NASR locates both thresholds, the true heading is the bearing between them rather than NASR's whole-degree alignment. Magnetic is that heading against *today's* declination from WMM2025, not the field's variation of record — so it can differ from the chart by the gap between the two shown above. The number painted on the runway is the one ATC uses.
Runway	True	Magnetic	Number	Length	Surface	Pattern	Notes
23	224.2°	231.7°	matches rule gives runway 24 in ~40 yr	6,276 ft	ASPH	right
5	44.2°	51.7°	matches rule gives runway 6 in ~40 yr	6,276 ft	ASPH	left

What KBCT usually does

Of 2,209 operations this service has observed at KBCT since 2026-08-25:

5 86% 1898 ops
23 14% 311 ops

Observed by this service only — not an FAA statistic, and biased toward the hours and days it has been watching. It is shown because it is the same history the engine learns its local-convention prior from.

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KBCT ☆ Boca Raton