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KWVI · WVI

Watsonville Municipal Airport

36.93570°N
-121.79000°W
ARR / DAY
37
▲ 28.4%
DEP / DAY
34
▲ 9.8%

Watsonville Municipal Airport (KWVI/WVI) is a small general aviation airport located in Watsonville, CA, 19 mi north west of Salinas. It features 2 runways with the longest being 4,502 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 37 arrivals and 34 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 0 total

NORMAL
↻
Go-arounds
0
✕
Rejected takeoffs
0
△
Unstable approaches
0
↺
Return to field
0

Current weather

Latest METAR observation

1h ago
Temp
70°F
Wind
4 kts
250°
Visib
10+ km
Ceil
—
METAR KWVI 281853Z AUTO 25004KT 10SM OVC100 21/17 A3001 RMK AO2 SLP161 T02060167

Runways

2 installed

4,502 FT MAX
02/20
4,502 ft × 149
ASP● LITMED
09/27
3,998 ft × 98
ASP● LIT

Runway intelligence

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

20
76% of ops
1,048 land · 1,144 TO
02
12% of ops
165 land · 46 TO
27
10% of ops
138 land · 46 TO
09
2% of ops
32 land · 33 TO
Runway 20 carries 76% of operations (1,048 landings, 1,144 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 02 at 12%.

Approach quality

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

20 1,048 landings
UA 5%
02 165 landings
UA 5%
27 138 landings
UA 9%
09 32 landings
UA 3%
Approaches to 20 show a 5% unstable-approach rate (51 UA events from 1,048 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
54.1
flights/day · 1,624 total
Busy hour (local)
7pm
also 9pm · 10pm
Day vs night
34%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 7pm–10pm local, averaging 54.1 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.2× weekday (65.0 vs 52.6 daily).

Aircraft character

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

420 · 35%
127 · 11%
89 · 7%
81 · 7%
61 · 5%
56 · 5%
Activity is led by (35% of 1,203 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11
Type Freq (MHz) Hours
CTAF 122.800 —
APCH 127.150 —
APCH 307.125 —
UNICOM 122.800 —
ASOS 132.275 —
CLASS C 127.150 —
CLASS C 307.125 —
Airport operations
ARTCC:
ZOA
Mag var:
14° E
Fuel:
100LL, G100UL

Hourly traffic

Avg movements per hour · local time · last 30 days

12a 1a 2a 3a 4a 5a 6a 7a 8a 9a 10a 11a 12p 1p 2p 3p 4p 5p 6p 7p 8p 9p 10p 11p

Pilot & community notes

3 comments from OurAirports (click to expand)

3
CaptBobCPA
11/27/2011
re: Zunigas
Reply to @CaptBobCPA: Unfortunately, Zunigas closed.
CaptBobCPA
05/30/2011
Zunigas
My home port. That great little restaurant is Zunigas. They have a great little gar as well--Jesus is there to serve you.
svanarts
01/22/2009
Mexican food
Last time I was there they had a great little Mexican restaurant on the field.
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