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Ensenada International Airport / El Cipres Air Base

31.79530°N
-116.60300°W
ARR / DAY
1
▲ 150.0%
DEP / DAY
2
▲ 83.3%
ON-TIME
—
schedules pending
AVG DELAY
—
7d window

Ensenada International Airport / El Cipres Air Base (MMES/ESE) is a small international airport located in Ensenada, Mexico. It features 1 runway measuring 4,892 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 1 arrivals and 2 departures per day on average over the last 7 days, served by 8 carriers across 8 routes. The most active carrier is XBI (XBI). The busiest route is to On the Rocks Airport (1CA6).

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 0 total

NORMAL
↻
Go-arounds
0
✕
Rejected takeoffs
0
△
Unstable approaches
0
↺
Return to field
0

Current weather

From MMTJ, 56 mi away (MMES does not publish METAR)

41m ago
Temp
66°F
Wind
0 kts
0°
Visib
10+ km
Ceil
—
MMTJ 161143Z 00000KT 10SM SKC 19/08 A2995 RMK SLP143 57001 972 HZY

Runways

1 installed

4,892 FT MAX
11/29
4,892 ft × 115
ASP● LIT

Runway intelligence

Which runway carries the operations, observed over the last 30 days

11
83% of ops
19 land · 3 TO
29
17% of ops
4 land · 9 TO
Runway 11 carries 83% of operations (19 landings, 3 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 29 at 17%.

Approach quality

Per-runway unstable-approach, go-around, and long-rollout rates

11 19 landings
UA 0%
29 4 landings
UA 0%
Approaches to 11 show a 0% unstable-approach rate (0 UA events from 19 landings).Phase B will add wind-correlation: which crosswind band produces most UA events.

Traffic behavior

When the field is busy: hourly + weekday vs weekend

Daily avg
1.8
flights/day · 54 total
Busy hour (local)
10pm
also 9pm · 8pm
Day vs night
33%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 8pm–10pm local, averaging 1.8 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.6× weekday (1.2 vs 2.1 daily).

Aircraft character

What's actually flying here: top types over the last 30 days

6 · 14%
4 · 10%
4 · 10%
3 · 7%
3 · 7%
3 · 7%
Activity is led by (14% of 42 flights). Top three types: , , .

Pilot & community notes

3 comments from OurAirports (click to expand)

3
I_Am_So_Handsome
1/7/2026
Renew the comments
Ensenada International Airport functions primarily as a military air force base (Air Force Base No. 3) for the Mexican Air Force, but it also handles general and private aviation activities. It does not have scheduled commercial flights.
KPC6NDB
6/24/2017
NDB AN BOING 245 kHz Decommissioned
Decommissioned Apr 2007.
KPC6NDB
6/24/2017
NDB DEORO 210 kHz Decommissioned
Decommissioned Feb 2009.
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