Iowa City Municipal Airport satellite view

📍 Iowa City⬆ 668 ft2 runways

KIOW · IOW

Iowa City Municipal Airport

41.63920°N

-91.54650°W

ARR / DAY

▼ 25.0%

DEP / DAY

▼ 30.8%

Iowa City Municipal Airport (KIOW/IOW) is a small general aviation airport located in Iowa City, IA, 26 mi south of Cedar Rapids. It features 2 runways with the longest being 5,002 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 18 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

5m ago

Temp

93°F

Wind

6 kts

220°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

METAR KIOW 022152Z AUTO 22006KT 10SM CLR 34/23 A2990 RMK AO2 SLP117 T03440228

Runways

2 installed

5,002 FT MAX

Runway intelligence

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

52% of ops

477 land · 560 TO

18% of ops

161 land · 148 TO

16% of ops

143 land · 120 TO

15% of ops

139 land · 93 TO

Runway 25 carries 52% of operations (477 landings, 560 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 30 at 18%.

Approach quality

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

25 477 landings

UA 5%

30 161 landings

UA 6%

07 143 landings

UA 6%

12 139 landings

UA 8%

Approaches to 25 show a 5% unstable-approach rate (26 UA events from 477 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

31.2

flights/day · 937 total

Busy hour (local)

5pm

also 8pm · 2pm

Day vs night

61%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 2pm–5pm local, averaging 31.2 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.0× weekday (31.4 vs 32.7 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (34% of 695 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11

Type	Freq (MHz)	Hours
CTAF	122.800	—
APCH	119.700	—
APCH	134.050	—
APCH	266.800	—
UNICOM	122.800	—
ASOS	128.075	—
CD/P	119.050	—
OTHER	119.050	—
IOWA CIT	122.300	—
OTHER	122.300	—
CEDAR RA	132.800	—
OTHER	132.800	—
CEDAR RA	328.400	—
OTHER	328.400	—

Airport operations

ARTCC:: ZAU
Mag var:: 1° W
Fuel:: 100LL

Hourly traffic

Avg movements per hour · local time · last 30 days

Pilot & community notes

2 comments from OurAirports (click to expand)

david

07/18/2007

re: Alexis Park Inn

I've never been to the airport, but I remember Jay well from the aviation Usenet groups -- he seems like a good guy, and I'm glad to hear that the hotel is still working out well.

Crash7