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Watsonville Municipal Airport

36.93570°N
-121.79000°W
ARR / DAY
45
▲ 58.3%
DEP / DAY
43
▲ 51.8%

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 45 arrivals and 43 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 0 total

NORMAL
↻
Go-arounds
0
✕
Rejected takeoffs
0
△
Unstable approaches
0
↺
Return to field
0

Current weather

Latest METAR observation

45m ago
Temp
55°F
Wind
7 kts
350°
Visib
10+ km
Ceil
—
METAR KWVI 121053Z AUTO 35007KT 10SM OVC016 13/07 A2993 RMK AO2 SLP132 T01280072

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
73% of ops
1,007 land · 1,101 TO
27
12% of ops
163 land · 49 TO
02
12% of ops
160 land · 49 TO
09
3% of ops
42 land · 61 TO
Runway 20 carries 73% of operations (1,007 landings, 1,101 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 27 at 12%.

Approach quality

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

20 1,007 landings
UA 8%
27 163 landings
UA 10%
02 160 landings
UA 4%
09 42 landings
UA 10%
Approaches to 20 show a 8% unstable-approach rate (77 UA events from 1,007 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
53.1
flights/day · 1,592 total
Busy hour (local)
6pm
also 7pm · 9pm
Day vs night
40%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 6pm–9pm local, averaging 53.1 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.4× weekday (70.1 vs 49.1 daily).

Aircraft character

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

354 · 32%
96 · 9%
95 · 9%
72 · 7%
62 · 6%
59 · 5%
Activity is led by (32% of 1,102 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-10-29
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

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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