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Palo Alto Airport of Santa Clara County

37.46110°N

-122.11500°W

ARR / DAY

▼ 5.0%

DEP / DAY

▼ 10.2%

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 0 total

NORMAL

Current weather

Latest METAR observation

11h ago

Temp

73°F

Wind

9 kts

360°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

METAR KPAO 032047Z 36009KT 10SM BKN060 23/16 A2993

Runways

1 installed

2,443 FT MAX

13/31

2,443 ft × 70

ASP● LIT

Runway intelligence

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

80% of ops

4,844 land · 7,125 TO

20% of ops

1,206 land · 202 TO

Runway 31 carries 80% of operations (4,844 landings, 7,125 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 13 at 20%.

Approach quality

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

31 4,844 landings

UA 5%

13 1,206 landings

UA 13%

Approaches to 31 show a 5% unstable-approach rate (245 UA events from 4,844 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

133.5

flights/day · 4,005 total

Busy hour (local)

7pm

also 6pm · 9pm

Day vs night

41%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 7pm–9pm local, averaging 133.5 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.2× weekday (155.6 vs 131.4 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (45% of 3,316 flights). Top three types: , , .

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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