📍 Santa Ynez⬆ 674 ft1 runways

KIZA · SQA

Santa Ynez Airport

34.60680°N

-120.07600°W

ARR / DAY

▼ 11.1%

DEP / DAY

▼ 32.4%

Santa Ynez Airport (KIZA/SQA) is a small general aviation airport located in Santa Ynez, CA, 31 mi south east of Santa Maria. It features 1 runway measuring 2,804 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 10 arrivals and 13 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 0 total

NORMAL

Current weather

Latest METAR observation

1h ago

Temp

55°F

Wind

0 kts

0°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

METAR KIZA 131635Z AUTO 00000KT 10SM CLR 13/07 A3004 RMK AO2

Runways

1 installed

2,804 FT MAX

08/26

2,804 ft × 75

ASP● LITMED

Runway intelligence

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

66% of ops

271 land · 359 TO

34% of ops

142 land · 37 TO

Runway 26 carries 66% of operations (271 landings, 359 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 08 at 34%.

Approach quality

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

26 271 landings

UA 4%

08 142 landings

UA 8%

Approaches to 26 show a 4% unstable-approach rate (11 UA events from 271 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

27.1

flights/day · 812 total

Busy hour (local)

6pm

also 7pm · 8pm

Day vs night

42%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 6pm–8pm local, averaging 27.1 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.3× weekday (33.8 vs 25.8 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (21% of 594 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11

Type	Freq (MHz)	Hours
CTAF	122.800	—
APCH	124.150	—
APCH	327.800	—
UNICOM	122.800	—
AWOS	118.075	—
SAN LUIS	119.050	—
OTHER	119.050	—
SAN LUIS	269.500	—
OTHER	269.500	—

Airport operations

ARTCC:: ZLA
Mag var:: 14° E
Fuel:: 100LL

Hourly traffic

Avg movements per hour · local time · last 30 days

Pilot & community notes

1 comment from OurAirports (click to expand)

JohnWSB

8/9/2013

Great Airport

Good fuel prices, walk to Santa Ynez, and if you want to wait there's a number to call for a free ride to the Chumash native casino (big white building complex at an angle off the West end of the runway).

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