📍 Santa Ynez⬆ 674 ft1 runways

KIZA · SQA

Santa Ynez Airport

34.60680°N

-120.07600°W

ARR / DAY

▲ 22.1%

DEP / DAY

▲ 10.9%

Santa Ynez Airport (KIZA/SQA) is a small general aviation airport located in Santa Ynez, CA, 31 mi south east of Santa Maria. It features 1 runway measuring 2,803 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 15 arrivals and 20 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 0 total

NORMAL

Current weather

Latest METAR observation

19m ago

Temp

55°F

Wind

0 kts

0°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

METAR KIZA 070855Z AUTO 00000KT 10SM OVC007 13/13 A2998 RMK AO2

Runways

1 installed

2,803 FT MAX

08/26

2,803 ft × 75

ASP● LITMED

Runway intelligence

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

59% of ops

254 land · 73 TO

41% of ops

175 land · 276 TO

Runway 08 carries 59% of operations (254 landings, 73 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 26 at 41%.

Approach quality

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

08 254 landings

UA 11%

26 175 landings

UA 5%

Approaches to 08 show a 11% unstable-approach rate (29 UA events from 254 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

31.0

flights/day · 930 total

Busy hour (local)

9pm

also 8pm · 7pm

Day vs night

37%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 7pm–9pm local, averaging 31.0 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.5× weekday (43.0 vs 27.9 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (19% of 689 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11

Type	Freq (MHz)	Hours
CTAF	122.800	—
APCH	124.150	—
APCH	327.800	—
UNICOM	122.800	—
AWOS	118.075	—
SAN LUIS	119.050	—
OTHER	119.050	—
SAN LUIS	269.500	—
OTHER	269.500	—

Airport operations

ARTCC:: ZLA
Mag var:: 14° E
Fuel:: 100LL

Hourly traffic

Avg movements per hour · local time · last 30 days

Pilot & community notes

1 comment from OurAirports — click to expand

JohnWSB

08/09/2013

Great Airport

Good fuel prices, walk to Santa Ynez, and if you want to wait there's a number to call for a free ride to the Chumash native casino (big white building complex at an angle off the West end of the runway).

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