Palo Alto Airport of Santa Clara County satellite view

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KPAO · PAO

Palo Alto Airport of Santa Clara County

37.46110°N

-122.11500°W

ARR / DAY

▼ 1.8%

DEP / DAY

▼ 5.7%

Palo Alto Airport of Santa Clara County (KPAO/PAO) is a small general aviation airport located in Palo Alto, CA. It features 1 runway measuring 2,441 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 69 arrivals and 81 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 2 total

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Current weather

Latest METAR observation

14h ago

Temp

64°F

Wind

0 kts

0°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

METAR KPAO 241547Z 00000KT 10SM BKN 011 18/14 A2998

Runways

1 installed

2,441 FT MAX

13/31

2,441 ft × 70

ASP● LITMED

Runway intelligence

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

80% of ops

2,841 land · 4,347 TO

20% of ops

713 land · 52 TO

Runway 31 carries 80% of operations (2,841 landings, 4,347 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 13 at 20%.

Approach quality

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

31 2,841 landings

UA 5%

13 713 landings

UA 15%

Approaches to 31 show a 5% unstable-approach rate (145 UA events from 2,841 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

124.5

flights/day · 3,735 total

Busy hour (local)

7pm

also 6pm · 9pm

Day vs night

42%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 7pm–9pm local, averaging 124.5 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.3× weekday (152.0 vs 120.0 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (46% of 3,114 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11

Type	Freq (MHz)	Hours
CTAF	118.600	—
TWR	118.600	0700-2100
GND	125.000	0700-2100
ATIS	135.275	0700-2100
APCH	121.300	—
APCH	133.950	—
APCH	134.500	—
APCH	270.350	—
APCH	290.250	—
APCH	338.200	—
DEP	121.300	—
DEP	270.350	—
UNICOM	122.950	—
LCL/P	118.600	0700-2100

Airport operations

ARTCC:: ZOA
Mag var:: 15° E
Fuel:: 100LL

Hourly traffic

Avg movements per hour · local time · last 30 days

peak 11 AM · 1 movement every 212 s

Pilot & community notes

2 comments from OurAirports (click to expand)

Cpfau182

09/22/2019

(no subject)

Tesla rental car

JohnB

03/16/2012

Palo Alto Airport

My home airport. Good chili at Abundant Air Cafe. Good rentals at Sundance flying club, West Valley Flying Club, Advantage Aviation.

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