San Gabriel Valley Airport
EMT · KEMT · El Monte, California · Los Angeles County · map
San Gabriel Valley Airport is a public-use airport owned by CO of Los Angeles, 1 mile north of El Monte, California, 296 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 01/19, is 3,995 feet of asphalt. It has a control tower and fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A).
Weather right now KEMT · observed 2:45 pm PDT (21:45 UTC), 21 minutes ago
VFR good flying weather
- Wind from the south-southwest (210°) at 8 knots
- Visibility 10 miles or more
- Temperature 102°F (39°C), dew point 48°F (9°C)
- Altimeter 29.78 inHg
No terminal forecast is issued for this station. The nearest forecast is usually at the closest larger airport.
The codes as issued (METAR and TAF)
METAR KEMT 062145Z 21008KT 10SM CLR 39/09 A2978
From the National Weather Service's aviation weather service, refreshed every few minutes; times are local to the airport with UTC in brackets. For a flight, get your briefing from Flight Service or an approved provider.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA EMT · ICAO KEMT
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- CO of Los Angeles
- Elevation
- 296 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- A control tower · 8:00 am to 8:00 pm
- Attended
- around the clock
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas, Jet A
- Repairs
- airframe: major repairs; engine: major repairs
- Parking
- tiedown
- On the chart
- Los Angeles sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 14E
- In the FAA's files since
- April 1944
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01/19 | 3,995 × 75 ft | Asphalt, good | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 01: PAPI, two lights on the left, threshold displaced 290 ft, 3,465 ft available for landing, pole 18 ft high 350 ft from the end
- Runway 19: PAPI, two lights on the right, right-hand traffic pattern, threshold displaced 641 ft, 3,354 ft available for landing, pole 30 ft high 800 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · Tower | 121.2 | El Monte |
| UNICOM | 122.95 | |
| ATIS (recorded airport information) · Emt and aWOS-3PT | 118.75 | El Monte |
| Ground | 125.9 | El Monte |
| Approach and departure SW-NORTH | 125.5 | El Monte |
| Class C airspace · Seter and star · Ziggy and star NORTH-NE | 127.0 | El Monte |
Automated weather (AWOS-3PT), by phone (626) 444-1107.
Wind map live wind over the area, from Windy.com
Colours show wind speed, the moving lines its direction; drag the time bar for the coming days. Map and forecast by Windy.com.
Aircraft registered in El Monte from the FAA register
36 aircraft are registered to owners in El Monte, California: 27 piston singles, 4 piston twins, 3 helicopters, 1 turboprop, 1 business jet. Not every one of them is based at this airport; the based-aircraft count above is the FAA's figure for this airport alone.
Companies and organisations in town with two or more aircraft:
Individuals are counted, never named. All aircraft registered in California.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 38 since 1982, 2 fatal
Cases the NTSB recorded with this as the nearest airport, newest first. Each opens the full report in plain English.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file
- When the control tower closed activate runway end identifier lights runway 19, medium-intensity runway lights runway 01/19 - the common traffic frequency.
- Runway 01 +6 feet fence 120 feet R of centerline; +6 feet fence 120 feet left and parallel to centerline 0-200 feet from end of runway.
- +2 feet fence 75 feet right of centerline at threshold to 0 feet right of centerline at 200 feet.
- Approach ratio 35:1 to displaced threshold; approach ratio 33:1 to displaced threshold over +45' power line OB 1490' from displaced threshold.
- Approach ratio 48:1 to displaced threshold.
- Remain over paved channel on climb out to south and to north.
- Heavy bird activity on and in the vicinity of airport.
- Lighted water tower 1 MI W-SW of airport.
- (E81) cntr taxiway lights only.
- This airport has been surveyed by the national geodetic survey.
Facts from the FAA's airport file effective October 1, 2026, written out in plain English; weather from the National Weather Service's aviation weather service; registered aircraft from the FAA register as of October 5, 2026; accidents from the NTSB's public database. Owners are shown only when they are an organisation; no person is named. Check the official sources before a flight: this page is for understanding an airport, not for planning one.