Iowa City Municipal Airport satellite view

📍 Iowa City⬆ 668 ft2 runways

KIOW · IOW

Iowa City Municipal Airport

41.63920°N

-91.54650°W

ARR / DAY

▲ 5.3%

DEP / DAY

▼ 13.0%

Iowa City Municipal Airport (KIOW/IOW) is a small general aviation airport located in Iowa City, IA, 26 mi south of Cedar Rapids. It features 2 runways with the longest being 5,002 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 14 arrivals and 15 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 0 total

NORMAL

Current weather

Latest METAR observation

2h ago

Temp

61°F

Wind

3 kts

0°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

METAR KIOW 270752Z AUTO VRB03KT 10SM OVC080 16/13 A3010 RMK AO2 SLP191 T01560128

Runways

2 installed

5,002 FT MAX

Runway intelligence

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

44% of ops

272 land · 268 TO

33% of ops

203 land · 210 TO

15% of ops

92 land · 77 TO

8% of ops

48 land · 41 TO

Runway 25 carries 44% of operations (272 landings, 268 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 07 at 33%.

Approach quality

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

25 272 landings

UA 3%

07 203 landings

UA 5%

12 92 landings

UA 3%

30 48 landings

UA 4%

Approaches to 25 show a 3% unstable-approach rate (7 UA events from 272 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

28.4

flights/day · 852 total

Busy hour (local)

7pm

also 9pm · 10pm

Day vs night

56%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 7pm–10pm local, averaging 28.4 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.3× weekday (35.8 vs 27.0 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (27% of 623 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11

Type	Freq (MHz)	Hours
CTAF	122.800	—
APCH	119.700	—
APCH	134.050	—
APCH	266.800	—
UNICOM	122.800	—
ASOS	128.075	—
CD/P	119.050	—
OTHER	119.050	—
IOWA CIT	122.300	—
OTHER	122.300	—
CEDAR RA	132.800	—
OTHER	132.800	—
CEDAR RA	328.400	—
OTHER	328.400	—

Airport operations

ARTCC:: ZAU
Mag var:: 1° W
Fuel:: 100LL

Hourly traffic

Avg movements per hour · local time · last 30 days

Pilot & community notes

2 comments from OurAirports (click to expand)

david

7/18/2007

re: Alexis Park Inn

I've never been to the airport, but I remember Jay well from the aviation Usenet groups -- he seems like a good guy, and I'm glad to hear that the hotel is still working out well.

Crash7