runwayinuse

KABQ Albuquerque Intl Sunport

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CONFIRMED 99%

Runways 3 and 8 — assigned by ATIS (information B)

ADS-B tracking just started here — traffic history is still building.

certainty: 99% evidence: STRONG no tower now Class C

N 3 21 8 26 30 12

Wind 350° true at 6 kt · VFR · 22 min old · from KABQ (0.4 nm away)

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3 62% 10000 ft · 4 kt head, 5 kt x-left · right traffic
8 38% 13793 ft · 1 kt TAIL, 6 kt x-left · right traffic
30 <1% 6000 ft · 4 kt head, 4 kt x-right
26 <1% 13793 ft · 1 kt head, 6 kt x-right
21 <1% 10000 ft · 4 kt TAIL, 5 kt x-right
12 <1% 6000 ft · 4 kt TAIL, 4 kt x-left · right traffic
Why — evidence behind this answer

Runway 3

Runway 8

Runway 30

Runway 26

Runway 21

Runway 12

Sources consulted

sourcestatus agenote
D_ATISOK 18 min
METAROK 22 min Nearest station KABQ (0.4 nm away)
ADSBWARMING_UP 482 min Only 0 min of track history so far
NOTAMOK
CIFPNOT_CONFIGURED Instrument procedures: phase 4

Recent operations

No operations observed in the last hour. (Only 0 min of track history so far)

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KABQ field & runways

Albuquerque Intl Sunport, Albuquerque, New Mexico. Field elevation 5355 ft. Class C airspace. Non-towered (ATCT-TRACON). Magnetic variation 11.0°E on record, 7.8°E today.

The FAA's variation of record is the number this field was surveyed against; the second is where north points now, from WMM2025. It is moving 0.078°/year west — about 1° every 13 years — which is why runway numbers eventually stop matching their pavement.

Runway data from the FAA NASR 01 Oct 2026 cycle. Where NASR locates both thresholds, the true heading is the bearing between them rather than NASR's whole-degree alignment. Magnetic is that heading against today's declination from WMM2025, not the field's variation of record — so it can differ from the chart by the gap between the two shown above. The number painted on the runway is the one ATC uses.
RunwayTrueMagnetic Number LengthSurfacePattern Notes
12 129.0° 121.2° matches rule gives runway 13 in ~49 yr 6,000 ft CONC right
21 224.7° 216.9° runway 22 by the rule today · 6.9° past 10,000 ft CONC left
26 270.4° 262.6° matches rule gives runway 27 in ~30 yr 13,793 ft CONC left
3 44.7° 36.9° runway 4 by the rule today · 6.9° past 10,000 ft CONC right ILS
30 309.0° 301.2° matches rule gives runway 31 in ~49 yr 6,000 ft CONC left
8 90.4° 82.6° matches rule gives runway 9 in ~30 yr 13,793 ft CONC right ILS

What KABQ usually does

Of 22 operations this service has observed at KABQ since 2026-08-25:

Observed by this service only — not an FAA statistic, and biased toward the hours and days it has been watching. It is shown because it is the same history the engine learns its local-convention prior from.

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