📍 Friday Harbor⬆ 113 ft1 runways

KFHR · FRD

Friday Harbor Airport

48.52200°N

-123.02400°W

ARR / DAY

▼ 26.7%

DEP / DAY

▼ 16.3%

ON-TIME

—

schedules pending

AVG DELAY

—

7d window

Friday Harbor Airport (KFHR/FRD) is a small international airport located in Friday Harbor, WA, 16 mi east of Saanich. It features 1 runway measuring 3,402 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 18 arrivals and 20 departures per day on average over the last 7 days, served by 9 carriers across 12 routes. Cargo carriers (FedEx, UPS, and similar) operate regularly, accounting for about 4% of observed flights. The most active carrier is Rugby Aviation (SJN). The busiest route is to Bellingham International Airport (KBLI).

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 0 total

NORMAL

Current weather

Latest METAR observation

23m ago

Temp

55°F

Wind

12 kts

140°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

METAR KFHR 102053Z AUTO 14012G26KT 10SM OVC012 13/11 A2997 RMK AO2 PK WND 13026/2047 RAE1959B13E51 SLP150 P0000 60004 T01280111 56004 $

Runways

1 installed

3,402 FT MAX

16/34

3,402 ft × 75

ASP● LITMED

Runway intelligence

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

55% of ops

415 land · 320 TO

45% of ops

335 land · 430 TO

Runway 34 carries 55% of operations (415 landings, 320 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 16 at 45%.

Approach quality

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

34 415 landings

UA 14%

16 335 landings

UA 12%

Approaches to 34 show a 14% unstable-approach rate (60 UA events from 415 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

47.3

flights/day · 1,420 total

Busy hour (local)

9pm

also 7pm · 8pm

Day vs night

43%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 8pm–9pm local, averaging 47.3 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.7× weekday (36.4 vs 53.8 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (27% of 1,213 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-10-29

Type	Freq (MHz)	Hours
CTAF	128.250	—
APCH	118.200	—
APCH	285.650	—
ASOS	135.675	—
OTHER	284.000	—
FHR NDB	284.000	—

Airport operations

ARTCC:: ZSE
Mag var:: 16° E
Fuel:: 100LL

Hourly traffic

Avg movements per hour · local time · last 30 days

Pilot & community notes

1 comment from OurAirports (click to expand)

PilotBobSenior

9/25/2011

Great Yuppy type town

Very nice small airport. Close easy walk to town. Nice shops and restaurants. Try the restaurant down by the ferry dock, my daughter says its great.

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