Watsonville Municipal
WVI · KWVI · Watsonville, California · Santa Cruz County · map
Watsonville Municipal is a public-use airport owned by the City of Watsonville, 3 miles northwest of Watsonville, California, 163 feet above sea level. It has 4 runways; the longest, 02/20, is 4,502 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A, G100UL unleaded avgas) and about 282 based aircraft. The FAA counts about 60,000 takeoffs and landings a year. About 3 passengers boarded flights here in the FAA's fiscal year 2024.
Weather right now KWVI · observed 3:53 pm PDT (22:53 UTC), 39 minutes ago
VFR good flying weather
- Wind from the south (190°) at 10 knots
- Visibility 10 miles or more
- Temperature 80°F (27°C), dew point 55°F (13°C)
- Altimeter 29.86 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 KWVI 062253Z AUTO 19010KT 10SM CLR 27/13 A2986 RMK AO2 SLP110 T02670128
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 WVI · ICAO KWVI
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- City of Watsonville
- Elevation
- 163 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- every day, 9:00 am to 5:00 pm
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas, Jet A, G100UL unleaded avgas
- Repairs
- airframe: minor repairs; engine: major repairs
- Parking
- tiedown
- Notes
- landing fee
- On the chart
- San Francisco sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 14E
Runways 4
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 02/20 | 4,502 × 149 ft | Asphalt, fair | Medium-intensity lights |
| 09/27 | 3,998 × 98 ft | Asphalt, fair | |
| H2 | 40 × 40 ft | Asphalt | |
| H1 | 20 × 20 ft | Asphalt |
- Runway 02: LOCALIZER, PAPI, two lights on the left, trees 46 ft high 1,310 ft from the end
- Runway 20: PAPI, two lights on the left, threshold displaced 589 ft, tree 80 ft high 1,198 ft from the end
- Runway 09: PAPI, two lights on the right, tree 38 ft high 1,050 ft from the end
- Runway 27: tree 55 ft high 935 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 122.8 | |
| Approach and departure · Class C airspace 136-360 mry | 127.15 | · All radials off mry airport. |
| Wvi and automated weather (ASOS) | 132.275 |
Automated weather (ASOS), by phone 831-724-8794.
Based aircraft as counted for the FAA, fiscal year 2024
Takeoffs and landings a year about 60,000, 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 Watsonville from the FAA register
71 aircraft are registered to owners in Watsonville, California: 49 piston singles, 11 helicopters, 3 business jets, 2 turboprops, 2 weight-shift and powered parachutes. 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 · 33 since 1982, 6 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
- Seagulls on and in the vicinity of airport.
- Activate PAPI runway 02, 09 and 20; runway end identifier lights runway 02; medium-intensity runway lights runway 02/20 - the common traffic frequency.
- Refer to airport website for fee schedule.
- Unusable beyond 4.0 NM due to terrain.
- Runway 20 approach ratio 22:1 to displaced threshold.
- Airport has noise abatement procedures; see airport website.
- Runway 20 pref calm wind runway; STRAIGHT-IN approach not recommended.
- Helicopter actvty on and in the vicinity of airport.
- Coastal fog during summer months.
- Prcht operations on airport daily 9:00 am to 8:00 pm; landing area 1000 feet west of runway 20.
- All departures prohibited on runway 27 due to runway visibility blocked by hngrs.
- 130 feet trees 700 feet right of runway 9 thld, 85 feet trees 600 feet left of runway 9 thld.
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.