Airports / KWVI / Watsonville Municipal AirportIATA WVIGood ground coverage
⚡ Upgrade for 1yr history
Watsonville Municipal Airport satellite view
📍 Watsonville⬆ 163 ft2 runways
KWVI · WVI

Watsonville Municipal Airport

36.93570°N
-121.79000°W
ARR / DAY
26
▼ 29.8%
DEP / DAY
30
▼ 21.7%

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 4,501 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 26 arrivals and 30 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

3h ago
Temp
70°F
Wind
9 kts
240°
Visib
10+ km
Ceil
—
METAR KWVI 152053Z AUTO 24009KT 10SM CLR 21/13 A3013 RMK AO2 SLP200 T02110128 56006

Runways

2 installed

4,501 FT MAX
02/20
4,501 ft × 150
ASP● LITMED
09/27
3,999 ft × 100
ASP● LIT

Runway intelligence

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

20
79% of ops
2,136 land · 2,335 TO
02
11% of ops
290 land · 96 TO
27
9% of ops
233 land · 75 TO
09
2% of ops
41 land · 51 TO
Runway 20 carries 79% of operations (2,136 landings, 2,335 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 02 at 11%.

Approach quality

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

20 2,136 landings
UA 5%
02 290 landings
UA 5%
27 233 landings
UA 9%
09 41 landings
UA 2%
Approaches to 20 show a 5% unstable-approach rate (105 UA events from 2,136 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
59.0
flights/day · 1,769 total
Busy hour (local)
7pm
also 8pm · 10pm
Day vs night
34%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 7pm–10pm local, averaging 59.0 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.1× weekday (66.8 vs 58.8 daily).

Aircraft character

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

480 · 37%
139 · 11%
84 · 7%
78 · 6%
65 · 5%
56 · 4%
Activity is led by (37% of 1,288 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
5/30/2011
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
1/22/2009
Mexican food
Last time I was there they had a great little Mexican restaurant on the field.
© SkyMeter · All flight data subject to ODbL attribution · Updated 00:45 UTC