KGLS Scholes Intl At Galveston

PROBABLE 60%

Runway 36 — wind slightly favors it, low confidence

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

certainty: 60% evidence: WEAK Class D

Wind 040° true at 7 kt · VFR · 56 min old · from KHOU (31.8 nm away)

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36 57% 6001 ft · 5 kt head, 4 kt x-right

32 27% 6000 ft · 1 kt head, 7 kt x-right

14 16% 6000 ft · 1 kt TAIL, 7 kt x-left

18 0% 6001 ft · 5 kt TAIL, 4 kt x-left

Why — evidence behind this answer

Runway 36

WIND 5 kt headwind, 4 kt right crosswind 56 min ago +0.78

Runway 32

WIND 1 kt headwind, 7 kt right crosswind 56 min ago +0.04

Runway 14

WIND 1 kt TAILWIND, 7 kt left crosswind 56 min ago -0.52

Runway 18

WIND 5 kt TAILWIND, 4 kt left crosswind 56 min ago -3.88

Sources consulted

source	status	age	note
D_ATIS	UNAVAILABLE		No D-ATIS at this field
METAR	OK	56 min	Nearest station KHOU (31.8 nm away)
ADSB	UNAVAILABLE		No ADS-B track history here yet
NOTAM	OK
CIFP	NOT_CONFIGURED		Instrument procedures: phase 4

Recent operations

No operations observed in the last hour. (No ADS-B track history here yet)

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KGLS field & runways

Scholes Intl At Galveston, Galveston, Texas. Field elevation 6 ft. Class D airspace. Towered. Magnetic variation 2.0°E on record, 1.4°E 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 0.081°/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
14	140.3°	138.8°	matches	6,000 ft	ASPH-CONC	left	ILS
18	180.8°	179.4°	matches	6,001 ft	CONC	left
32	320.3°	318.8°	matches	6,000 ft	ASPH-CONC	left
36	0.8°	359.4°	matches	6,001 ft	CONC	left

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KGLS ☆ Scholes Intl At Galveston