📍 Friday Harbor⬆ 113 ft1 runways

KFHR · FRD

Friday Harbor Airport

48.52200°N

-123.02400°W

ARR / DAY

▼ 18.6%

DEP / DAY

▼ 13.3%

ON-TIME

—

schedules pending

AVG DELAY

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7d window

Friday Harbor Airport (KFHR/FRD) is a small international airport located in Friday Harbor, WA, 16 mi east of Saanich. It features 1 runway measuring 3,402 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 44 arrivals and 43 departures per day on average over the last 7 days, served by 20 carriers across 30 routes. The most active carrier is Rugby Aviation (SJN). The busiest route is to Boeing Field King County International Airport (KBFI). At the busiest hour of an average day, we calculated that a plane takes off or lands roughly every 300 seconds.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 0 total

NORMAL

Current weather

Latest METAR observation

12h ago

Temp

73°F

Wind

7 kts

240°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

METAR KFHR 252253Z AUTO 24007KT 10SM CLR 23/14 A2994 RMK AO2 SLP139 T02280139

Runways

1 installed

3,402 FT MAX

16/34

3,402 ft × 75

ASP● LITMED

Runway intelligence

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

69% of ops

1,195 land · 1,348 TO

31% of ops

549 land · 222 TO

Runway 16 carries 69% of operations (1,195 landings, 1,348 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 34 at 31%.

Approach quality

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

16 1,195 landings

UA 10%

34 549 landings

UA 12%

Approaches to 16 show a 10% unstable-approach rate (121 UA events from 1,195 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

99.4

flights/day · 2,981 total

Busy hour (local)

7pm

also 9pm · 11pm

Day vs night

41%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 7pm–11pm local, averaging 99.4 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.0× weekday (101.4 vs 103.3 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (23% of 2,468 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11

Type	Freq (MHz)	Hours
CTAF	128.250	—
APCH	118.200	—
APCH	285.650	—
ASOS	135.675	—
OTHER	284.000	—
FHR NDB	284.000	—

Airport operations

ARTCC:: ZSE
Mag var:: 16° E
Fuel:: 100LL

Hourly traffic

Avg movements per hour · local time · last 30 days

peak 12 PM · 1 movement every 300 s

Pilot & community notes

1 comment from OurAirports (click to expand)

PilotBobSenior

09/25/2011

Great Yuppy type town

Very nice small airport. Close easy walk to town. Nice shops and restaurants. Try the restaurant down by the ferry dock, my daughter says its great.

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