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Watsonville Municipal Airport

36.93570°N
-121.79000°W
ARR / DAY
40
▲ 20.2%
DEP / DAY
43
▲ 25.7%

Watsonville Municipal Airport (KWVI/WVI) is a small general aviation airport located in Watsonville, CA, 19 mi north west of Salinas. It features 2 runways with the longest being 4,501 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 40 arrivals and 43 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 1 total

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Go-arounds
0
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Rejected takeoffs
0
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Unstable approaches
1
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Return to field
0

Current weather

From KSNS, 21 mi away (KWVI does not publish METAR)

19m ago
Temp
69°F
Wind
12 kts
320°
Visib
10+ km
Ceil
—
KSNS 122053Z 32012G21KT 10SM CLR 21/13 A2989 RMK AO2 SLP130 T02060133 58012

Runways

2 installed

4,501 FT MAX
02/20
4,501 ft × 150
ASP● LITMED
09/27
3,999 ft × 100
ASP● LIT

Runway intelligence

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

20
79% of ops
2,900 land · 3,120 TO
02
10% of ops
365 land · 114 TO
27
9% of ops
327 land · 100 TO
09
2% of ops
59 land · 74 TO
Runway 20 carries 79% of operations (2,900 landings, 3,120 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 02 at 10%.

Approach quality

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

20 2,900 landings
UA 5%
02 365 landings
UA 5%
27 327 landings
UA 10%
09 59 landings
UA 3%
Approaches to 20 show a 5% unstable-approach rate (145 UA events from 2,900 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
63.7
flights/day · 1,910 total
Busy hour (local)
10pm
also 7pm · 8pm
Day vs night
33%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 8pm–10pm local, averaging 63.7 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.0× weekday (66.8 vs 65.5 daily).

Aircraft character

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

510 · 37%
148 · 11%
104 · 7%
89 · 6%
81 · 6%
58 · 4%
Activity is led by (37% of 1,396 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11
Type Freq (MHz) Hours
CTAF 122.800 —
APCH 127.150 —
APCH 307.125 —
UNICOM 122.800 —
ASOS 132.275 —
CLASS C 127.150 —
CLASS C 307.125 —
Airport operations
ARTCC:
ZOA
Mag var:
14° E
Fuel:
100LL, G100UL

Hourly traffic

Avg movements per hour · local time · last 30 days

peak 12 PM · 1 movement every 360 s
12a 1a 2a 3a 4a 5a 6a 7a 8a 9a 10a 11a 12p 1p 2p 3p 4p 5p 6p 7p 8p 9p 10p 11p

Pilot & community notes

3 comments from OurAirports (click to expand)

3
CaptBobCPA
11/27/2011
re: Zunigas
Reply to @CaptBobCPA: Unfortunately, Zunigas closed.
CaptBobCPA
5/30/2011
Zunigas
My home port. That great little restaurant is Zunigas. They have a great little gar as well--Jesus is there to serve you.
svanarts
1/22/2009
Mexican food
Last time I was there they had a great little Mexican restaurant on the field.
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