Live wind and weather at Frankfurt Airport, and how the wind lines up with its four runways: headwind and crosswind for every runway end, with a map of the airfield, Fraport's 5-knot tailwind rule and a way to try your own wind.
Nordbahn 07C/25C (4,000 m) · Südbahn 07R/25L (4,000 m) · Landebahn Nordwest 07L/25R (2,800 m, landings only) · Startbahn West 18 (4,000 m, southbound take-offs only)
Wind and weather come from NOAA METAR reports for Frankfurt (EDDF). The map shows how the wind lines up with each runway; it is not the runway plan, because which runways and which direction are in use is decided by air traffic control (DFS) and depends on upper winds, the forecast, traffic and noise rules as well as the surface wind. Runway coordinates are from OurAirports, the base map is © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), and runway names, lengths and usage are from Wikipedia and Fraport. AeroGaze is an independent site, not affiliated with Fraport or DFS.
Four. Three run east-west in parallel: the Nordbahn (07C/25C, 4,000 m), the Südbahn (07R/25L, 4,000 m) and the Landebahn Nordwest (07L/25R, 2,800 m, landings only). The fourth, the Startbahn West (18, 4,000 m), runs north-south and is used for southbound take-offs only.
That is decided by air traffic control (DFS), not by AeroGaze, so this page doesn't claim to know. Fraport says aircraft take off and land into the wind as far as possible, and that the direction of the parallel runways changes when the tailwind exceeds 5 knots. This page sets today's wind against that number and shows the headwind and crosswind on every runway end.
They name the direction aircraft use on the three parallel runways. Operating direction 25 means flying east to west (heading about 250°), used with westerly winds. Operating direction 07 means west to east (about 70°), used with easterly winds. Fraport puts the long-term split at around 70% westerly and 30% easterly.
The number is the runway's compass heading divided by 10, rounded: 25 is about 250°, 07 about 70°, 18 about 180°. L, C and R (left, centre, right) tell parallel runways apart. Every runway has two ends with numbers 18 apart, such as 07C and 25C.
From the METAR for Frankfurt (EDDF), the standard aviation weather report, via the NOAA Aviation Weather Center. It is issued about every half hour and the report time is shown on the page. Wind directions are true (not magnetic), the same as the runway headings used here.