Waukegan National Airport satellite view

📍 Chicago/Waukegan⬆ 727 ft2 runways

KUGN · UGN

Waukegan National Airport

42.42220°N

-87.86790°W

ARR / DAY

▲ 1.9%

DEP / DAY

▲ 3.1%

Waukegan National Airport (KUGN/UGN) is a small general aviation airport located in Chicago/Waukegan, IL, 34 mi north east of Elgin. It features 2 runways with the longest being 6,000 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 38 arrivals and 43 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 2 total

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Current weather

Latest METAR observation

2d ago

Temp

61°F

Wind

3 kts

270°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

METAR KUGN 300851Z AUTO 27003KT 10SM CLR 16/13 A3005 RMK AO2 SLP168 T01610133 50002 $

Runways

2 installed

6,000 FT MAX

Runway intelligence

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

48% of ops

1,410 land · 1,542 TO

36% of ops

1,082 land · 707 TO

10% of ops

308 land · 141 TO

6% of ops

167 land · 200 TO

Runway 23 carries 48% of operations (1,410 landings, 1,542 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 05 at 36%.

Approach quality

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

23 1,410 landings

UA 6%

05 1,082 landings

UA 3%GA 0.1%

14 308 landings

UA 9%

32 167 landings

UA 6%

Approaches to 23 show a 6% unstable-approach rate (89 UA events from 1,410 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

69.2

flights/day · 2,077 total

Busy hour (local)

3pm

also 4pm · 7pm

Day vs night

64%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 3pm–7pm local, averaging 69.2 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.8× weekday (62.9 vs 75.0 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (40% of 1,486 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11

Type	Freq (MHz)	Hours
CTAF	120.050	—
TWR	120.050	0600-2000
TWR	273.550	0600-2000
GND	121.650	0600-2000
ATIS	132.400	0600-2000
APCH	120.550	—
LCL/P	120.050	0600-2000
EMERG	121.500	0600-2000
GOPAC ST	126.500	—
OTHER	126.500	—
LCL/P	273.550	0600-2000
GOPAC ST	307.000	—
OTHER	307.000	—

Airport operations

ARTCC:: ZAU
Mag var:: 3° W
Fuel:: 100LL

Hourly traffic

Avg movements per hour · local time · last 30 days

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