KABQ Runway 03/21 — Albuquerque International Sunport

Oct 28, 2026 (airport-local day): 0 configuration changes since local midnight, from the D-ATIS broadcasts ATIS Alerts recorded. A change is a different arrival or departure set; a new ATIS letter with the same runways is folded into the row it belongs to. The history section below counts the same way over rolling windows.

1. 06:03Z12:03 AM MDT(in effect since before the day began)

   7.0 h · current
   Arrivals

   0803

   Departures

   08
   ATIS: Echo → Foxtrot → Golf → Hotel → India → Juliett → Kilo → Lima → Mike → November → OscarIn effect at the start of the day

Time · runway 03/21 · airport-wide outlook · confidence · forecast wind · why

1. Now1303Z · 7:03 AM MDT·03/21: 03 in use·Current airport configuration (D-ATIS): arrivals 08 · 03 · departures 08·stated·wind 020° at 4 kt
2. +1 h1403Z · 8:03 AM MDT·03/21: not favored·airport-wide likely 08·East flow·Low 55%·wind VRB at 5 kt·Why TAF wind variable at 5 kt: no steady direction, so wind does not decide the runway.|In recorded use, 08 is the end this airport most often named for arrivals in calm wind (D-ATIS).|The airport is already using 08 and 03.
3. +2 h1503Z · 9:03 AM MDT·03/21: not favored·airport-wide likely 08·East flow·Low 55%·wind VRB at 5 kt·Why TAF wind variable at 5 kt: no steady direction, so wind does not decide the runway.|In recorded use, 08 is the end this airport most often named for arrivals in calm wind (D-ATIS).|The airport is already using 08 and 03.
4. +3 h1603Z · 10:03 AM MDT·03/21: not favored·airport-wide likely 08·East flow·Low 55%·wind VRB at 5 kt·Why TAF wind variable at 5 kt: no steady direction, so wind does not decide the runway.|In recorded use, 08 is the end this airport most often named for arrivals in calm wind (D-ATIS).|The airport is already using 08 and 03.
5. +6 h1903Z · 1:03 PM MDT·03/21: 21 likely·airport-wide likely 21 then 26·Southwest flow·5 kt headwind, 0 kt crosswind·Low 45%·wind 220° at 5 kt·Why TAF forecast wind 220° at 5 kt favors southwest-facing runway ends: 5 kt headwind and 0 kt crosswind on 21 versus 3 kt headwind on 26.|This would be a change from the current 08 and 03 configuration.|No known runway closure prevents this configuration.|Recorded use with wind from the southwest: 08 named for arrivals 63% of 35 h (D-ATIS).|Confidence falls with forecast distance (+6 h).
6. +12 h0103Z · 7:03 PM MDT·03/21: 21 likely·airport-wide likely 21 then 26·Southwest flow·5 kt headwind, 0 kt crosswind·Low 27%·wind 220° at 5 kt·Why TAF forecast wind 220° at 5 kt favors southwest-facing runway ends: 5 kt headwind and 0 kt crosswind on 21 versus 3 kt headwind on 26.|This would be a change from the current 08 and 03 configuration.|No known runway closure prevents this configuration.|Recorded use with wind from the southwest: 08 named for arrivals 63% of 35 h (D-ATIS).|Confidence falls with forecast distance (+12 h).

ATIS Alerts Predicted Runway is an estimate from the TAF wind forecast, runway geometry (most headwind, crosswind penalised, tailwind over 5 kt avoided, longest runway breaks ties), the current stated configuration and any stated closures; recorded D-ATIS use since Sep 18, 2026 (718 h) is an input wherever a wind sector has 24 h on record. Each row lists its reasons; “no runway favored” is a genuine answer under variable or light wind, never replaced by a guess. It is not an ATC assignment and does not know about noise abatement or traffic flow unless the recorded history shows them. TAF issued 1125Z (5:25 AM MDT).

Source: FAA NASR 28-day subscription, cycle effective 2026-10-01 (equipment on record) · FAA NOTAMs via SWIM (live)and the current D-ATIS (outages). “Not available” means the FAA record lists no such equipment for the end; nothing here is inferred. An outage annotation is only ever a reading of the official text shown with it. Declared distances are not shown in this phase.

The current D-ATIS does not state LAHSO in effect. Source: FAA NASR cycle 2026-10-01; D-ATIS text read by ATIS Alerts.

The FAA record does not sectorize KABQ's frequencies by runway; every row applies airport-wide. Source: FAA NASR FRQ, cycle 2026-10-01. Verify on the current chart supplement before use.

Length

10,000 ft

Width

150 ft

Surface

Concrete · Good condition

Surface treatment

Grooved

Weight bearing (lb)

S 100k · D 210k · 2D 360k · 2D/2D2 720k

PCN

800

Runway lights

Not lighted

Airport elevation

5,355 ft

Published FAA baseline

Open

Published NASR record; does not reflect temporary closures or restrictions. Current operational status is the card at the top of the page.

Runway 03/21 numbers are magnetic; the stored geometry and every wind calculation on this page are TRUE north, so they never need a variation correction. Magnetic headings use the FAA's published variation for this airport, 11.0°E (1995), the same value printed on the FAA airport diagram. Surface condition, treatment, weight bearing, thresholds and traffic pattern are from the FAA NASR record (cycle 2026-10-01); lighting, ILS and LAHSO are in their own sections above. Declared distances are not shown in this phase.

Runway percentages are measured independently. Multiple runways can be active simultaneously, so totals may exceed 100%.

Observed runway usage — 718 hours of D-ATIS runway configuration history collected · 12 distinct configurations observed · 908 D-ATIS broadcasts recorded · through Oct 28, 2026. Shares are the fraction of recorded hours in which the D-ATIS named each end. Wind sectors use the wind reported when each configuration began. Nothing here is inferred from wind; the wind-favored analysis for KABQ is a separate module. 90-day, 12-month and seasonal views appear once the record is long enough.

12 departure procedures · 12 STARs · FAA hot spots page ↗ · FAA d-TPP cycle 2611. Plates open on aeronav.faa.gov (public domain); ATIS Alerts does not reproduce charts or minimums.