Sacramento Mather Airport
MHR · KMHR · Sacramento, California · Sacramento County · map
Sacramento Mather Airport is a public-use airport owned by the County of Sacramento, 10 miles east of Sacramento, California, 98 feet above sea level. It has 4 runways; the longest, 04R/22L, is 11,301 feet of asphalt and concrete. It has a control tower, fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A) and about 52 based aircraft. The FAA counts about 72,724 takeoffs and landings a year. About 185 passengers boarded flights here in the FAA's fiscal year 2024.
Weather right now KMHR · observed 3:35 pm PDT (22:35 UTC), 18 minutes ago
VFR good flying weather
- Wind from the west-northwest (290°) at 9 knots
- Visibility 10 miles or more
- Temperature 100°F (38°C), dew point 42°F (6°C)
- Altimeter 29.80 inHg
The forecast issued Tue 10:20 am PDT (17:20 UTC), good until Wed 11:00 am PDT (18:00 UTC)
- From Tue 11:00 am PDT (18:00 UTC): wind light and variable, visibility more than 6 miles, clear skies VFR
The codes as issued (METAR and TAF)
METAR KMHR 062235Z AUTO 29009KT 10SM CLR 38/06 A2980 RMK AO2 T03790058
TAF KMHR 061720Z 0618/0718 VRB05KT P6SM SKC
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 MHR · ICAO KMHR
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- County of Sacramento
- Elevation
- 98 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- A control tower · 5:00 am to 9:00 pm
- Attended
- every day, 5:00 am to 10:00 pm
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas, Jet A
- Repairs
- airframe: major repairs; engine: major repairs
- Parking
- hangar, tiedown
- On the chart
- San Francisco sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 13E
- In the FAA's files since
- July 1942
Runways 4
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 04R/22L | 11,301 × 150 ft | Asphalt and concrete, good | High-intensity lights |
| 04L/22R | 6,081 × 150 ft | Asphalt, good | |
| H2 | 100 × 100 ft | Asphalt, fair | |
| H1 | 30 × 30 ft | Asphalt, fair |
- Runway 04R: VASI, four boxes on the left, right-hand traffic pattern
- Runway 22L: ILS with DME, VASI, four boxes on the left, medium-intensity approach lights with runway alignment lights (MALSR)
- Runway 22R: right-hand traffic pattern
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · Tower | 120.65 | Mather |
| UNICOM | 122.95 | |
| ATIS (recorded airport information) · Mhr and aWOS-3PT | 118.325 | Mather |
| Clearance delivery · Ground | 121.85 | Mather |
| Approach · Departure | 127.4 | Mather |
Automated weather (AWOS-3PT), by phone 916-366-3371.
Based aircraft as counted for the FAA, fiscal year 2024
Takeoffs and landings a year about 72,724, the FAA's fiscal year 2024 (October 2023 to September 2024)
Local flights stay in the traffic pattern or nearby, often practice; travelling flights arrive from or leave for somewhere else. Counts at airports without a tower are the FAA's estimates.
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 Sacramento from the FAA register
329 aircraft are registered to owners in Sacramento, California: 244 piston singles, 22 piston twins, 21 turboprops, 19 helicopters, 14 business jets. 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 · 11 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
- No objection
- When the control tower closed activate high-intensity runway lights runway 04R/22L; VASI runway 04R and 22L; approach lights (MALSR) runway 22L - the common traffic frequency.
- Pattern altitude for piston aircraft 1000 feet above ground level; turbine aircraft 1800 feet above ground level.
- Swl 65/PSI 640.
- Runway 04L/22R medium-intensity runway lights decomissioned.
- Runway 22L calm wind runway.
- Be alert for large transport aircraft takeoffs and landings and high performance military T-38 jets.
- Avoid noise sensitive residential areas north/east of runway 22L ILS final approach course. Turbojet nighttime noise abatement arrival and departure procedures in effect 10:00 pm to 7:00 am daily.
- Birds in the vicinity of of airport.
- Aircraft entering runway 22R traffic pattern from the north should expect to fly base leg extended 2 miles from runway thld.
- Taxiway D1 closed to aircraft with wingspan more than 69 feet.
- No field condition NOTAMs available 4:00 pm to 6:00 am.
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.