KSAN San Diego Intl

CONFIRMED 99%

Runway 27 — assigned by ATIS (information Q)

certainty: 99% evidence: STRONG towered now Class B

Wind 320° true at 5 kt · IFR · 15 min old

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27 99% 9401 ft · 4 kt head, 3 kt x-right · right traffic

9 <1% 9401 ft · 4 kt TAIL, 3 kt x-left

Why — evidence behind this answer

Runway 27

ATIS ATIS (info Q) names 27 for arrivals 5 min ago +3.80
PRIOR 27 used 99% of the time in this wind bin (n=1435) +1.50
IMC_APCH IFR conditions and 27 has an instrument approach +1.30
WIND 4 kt headwind, 3 kt right crosswind 15 min ago +0.28
ADSB_OP N8990Q landed 27 57 min ago +0.06

Runway 9

ATIS 9 not named for arrivals on current ATIS 5 min ago -1.90
IMC_APCH IFR conditions and 9 has an instrument approach +1.30
WIND 4 kt TAILWIND, 3 kt left crosswind 15 min ago -1.10
PRIOR 9 used 1% of the time in this wind bin (n=1435) -0.48

Sources consulted

source	status	age	note
D_ATIS	OK	5 min
METAR	OK	15 min
ADSB	OK	0 min	GOOD
NOTAM	OK
CIFP	NOT_CONFIGURED		Instrument procedures: phase 4

Recent operations

time	aircraft	type	op	rwy	conf
07:44Z	N8990Q	B38M	landing	27	37%

Was this right?

KSAN field & runways

San Diego Intl, San Diego, California. Field elevation 17 ft. Class B airspace. Towered. Magnetic variation 11.0°E on record, 10.9°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 0.075°/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.
Runway	True	Magnetic	Number	Length	Surface	Pattern	Notes
27	286.1°	275.2°	runway 28 by the rule today · 5.2° past	9,401 ft	ASPH-CONC	right	ILS
9	106.1°	95.2°	runway 10 by the rule today · 5.2° past	9,401 ft	ASPH-CONC	left	ILS

What KSAN usually does

Of 18,775 operations this service has observed at KSAN since 2026-08-25:

27 98% 18314 ops
9 2% 461 ops

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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KSAN ☆ San Diego Intl