Palo Alto Airport of Santa Clara County satellite view

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KPAO · PAO

Palo Alto Airport of Santa Clara County

37.46110°N

-122.11500°W

ARR / DAY

▲ 6.3%

DEP / DAY

▲ 4.4%

Palo Alto Airport of Santa Clara County (KPAO/PAO) is a small general aviation airport located in Palo Alto, CA. It features 1 runway measuring 2,443 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 79 arrivals and 91 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 3 total

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Current weather

Latest METAR observation

5h ago

Temp

64°F

Wind

3 kts

50°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

METAR KPAO 121547Z 05003KT 10SM SCT013 18/14 A2992

Runways

1 installed

2,443 FT MAX

13/31

2,443 ft × 70

ASP● LITMED

Runway intelligence

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

79% of ops

6,304 land · 10,000 TO

21% of ops

1,706 land · 42 TO

Runway 31 carries 79% of operations (6,304 landings, 10,000 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 13 at 21%.

Approach quality

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

31 6,304 landings

UA 5%

13 1,706 landings

UA 18%

Approaches to 31 show a 5% unstable-approach rate (316 UA events from 6,304 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

128.8

flights/day · 3,864 total

Busy hour (local)

10pm

also 5pm · 12am

Day vs night

41%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 12am–10pm local, averaging 128.8 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.0× weekday (131.8 vs 133.8 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (48% of 3,216 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11

Type	Freq (MHz)	Hours
CTAF	118.600	—
TWR	118.600	0700-2100
GND	125.000	0700-2100
ATIS	135.275	0700-2100
APCH	121.300	—
APCH	133.950	—
APCH	134.500	—
APCH	270.350	—
APCH	290.250	—
APCH	338.200	—
DEP	121.300	—
DEP	270.350	—
UNICOM	122.950	—
LCL/P	118.600	0700-2100

Airport operations

ARTCC:: ZOA
Mag var:: 15° E
Fuel:: 100LL

Hourly traffic

Avg movements per hour · local time · last 30 days

peak 11 AM · 1 movement every 212 s

Pilot & community notes

2 comments from OurAirports (click to expand)

Cpfau182

9/22/2019

(no subject)

Tesla rental car

JohnB

3/16/2012

Palo Alto Airport

My home airport. Good chili at Abundant Air Cafe. Good rentals at Sundance flying club, West Valley Flying Club, Advantage Aviation.

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