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Friday Harbor Airport

48.52200°N
-123.02400°W
ARR / DAY
33
▼ 12.3%
DEP / DAY
34
▼ 8.7%
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 33 arrivals and 34 departures per day on average over the last 7 days, served by 14 carriers across 20 routes. The most active carrier is Kenmore AIR Harbor (KEN). The busiest route is to Boeing Field King County International Airport (KBFI). At the busiest hour of an average day, we calculated that a plane takes off or lands roughly every 360 seconds.

Current weather

Latest METAR observation

2h ago
Temp
57°F
Wind
5 kts
140°
Visib
10+ km
Ceil
—
METAR KFHR 261853Z AUTO 14005KT 10SM FEW030 FEW036 14/09 A3022 RMK AO2 SLP234 T01440089

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

16
58% of ops
737 land · 852 TO
34
42% of ops
536 land · 346 TO
Runway 16 carries 58% of operations (737 landings, 852 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 34 at 42%.

Approach quality

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

16 737 landings
UA 10%
34 536 landings
UA 11%
Approaches to 16 show a 10% unstable-approach rate (77 UA events from 737 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
73.6
flights/day · 2,208 total
Busy hour (local)
9pm
also 7pm · 11pm
Day vs night
41%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 9pm–11pm local, averaging 73.6 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.9× weekday (70.4 vs 78.3 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (26% of 1,791 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11
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

peak 2 PM · 1 movement every 360 s
12a 1a 2a 3a 4a 5a 6a 7a 8a 9a 10a 11a 12p 1p 2p 3p 4p 5p 6p 7p 8p 9p 10p 11p

Pilot & community notes

1 comment from OurAirports (click to expand)

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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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