📍 Friday Harbor⬆ 113 ft1 runways

KFHR · FRD

Friday Harbor Airport

48.52200°N

-123.02400°W

ARR / DAY

▼ 15.7%

DEP / DAY

▼ 21.9%

ON-TIME

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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 50 arrivals and 45 departures per day on average over the last 7 days, served by 14 carriers across 31 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 · 1 total

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Current weather

Latest METAR observation

23h ago

Temp

61°F

Wind

6 kts

120°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

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METAR KFHR 012353Z AUTO 12006KT 10SM OVC060 16/12 A2979 RMK AO2 SLP089 T01560117 10183 20150 55005

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

68% of ops

1,711 land · 1,922 TO

32% of ops

791 land · 355 TO

Runway 16 carries 68% of operations (1,711 landings, 1,922 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 34 at 32%.

Approach quality

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

16 1,711 landings

UA 10%

34 791 landings

UA 11%

Approaches to 16 show a 10% unstable-approach rate (172 UA events from 1,711 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

103.4

flights/day · 3,101 total

Busy hour (local)

9pm

also 11pm · 7pm

Day vs night

39%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 7pm–9pm local, averaging 103.4 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.0× weekday (106.2 vs 107.2 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (24% of 2,549 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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