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Watsonville Municipal Airport

36.93570°N
-121.79000°W
ARR / DAY
0
▲ 0.0%
DEP / DAY
0
▲ 0.0%

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

15h ago
Temp
61°F
Wind
4 kts
90°
Visib
10+ km
Ceil
—
METAR KWVI 030453Z AUTO 09004KT 10SM OVC007 16/14 A3004 RMK AO2 SLP173 T01610139

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
75% of ops
1,817 land · 1,988 TO
02
12% of ops
281 land · 67 TO
27
11% of ops
254 land · 72 TO
09
3% of ops
64 land · 57 TO
Runway 20 carries 75% of operations (1,817 landings, 1,988 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 02 at 12%.

Approach quality

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

20 1,817 landings
UA 5%
02 281 landings
UA 6%
27 254 landings
UA 7%
09 64 landings
UA 2%
Approaches to 20 show a 5% unstable-approach rate (88 UA events from 1,817 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
60.5
flights/day · 1,816 total
Busy hour (local)
8pm
also 7pm · 9pm
Day vs night
34%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 8pm–9pm local, averaging 60.5 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.3× weekday (75.2 vs 57.8 daily).

Aircraft character

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

473 · 35%
128 · 10%
89 · 7%
85 · 6%
70 · 5%
65 · 5%
Activity is led by (35% of 1,334 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

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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