📍 Santa Ynez⬆ 674 ft1 runways

KIZA · SQA

Santa Ynez Airport

34.60680°N

-120.07600°W

ARR / DAY

▼ 36.9%

DEP / DAY

▼ 24.5%

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 8 arrivals and 12 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 0 total

NORMAL

Current weather

Latest METAR observation

10m ago

Temp

61°F

Wind

3 kts

30°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

METAR KIZA 011635Z AUTO 03003KT 10SM CLR 16/11 A3003 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

67% of ops

270 land · 361 TO

33% of ops

132 land · 31 TO

Runway 26 carries 67% of operations (270 landings, 361 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 08 at 33%.

Approach quality

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

26 270 landings

UA 2%

08 132 landings

UA 14%

Approaches to 26 show a 2% unstable-approach rate (6 UA events from 270 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

24.7

flights/day · 742 total

Busy hour (local)

6pm

also 5pm · 8pm

Day vs night

46%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 6pm–8pm local, averaging 24.7 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.6× weekday (35.1 vs 22.0 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (18% of 536 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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