KSLC Runway 16R/34L — Salt Lake City International Airport

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. 06:00Z12:00 AM MDT(in effect since before the day began)

   18.3 h · current
   Arrivals

   34L35

   Departures

   not stated
   ATIS: Foxtrot → Golf → Hotel → India → Juliett → Kilo → Lima → Mike → November → Oscar → Papa → Quebec → Romeo → Sierra → Tango → Uniform → Victor → Whiskey → X-ray → Yankee → Zulu → AlfaNorth flowIn effect at the start of the day

Time · runway 16R/34L · airport-wide outlook · confidence · forecast wind · why

1. Now0015Z · 6:15 PM MDT·16R/34L: 34L in use·Current airport configuration (D-ATIS): arrivals 34L · 35 · departures -·stated·wind 320° at 8 kt
2. +1 h0115Z · 7:15 PM MDT·16R/34L: not favored·airport-wide likely 32 then 34R·8 kt headwind, 2 kt crosswind·Low 46%·wind 320° at 8 kt·Why TAF forecast wind 320° at 8 kt favors northwest-facing runway ends: 8 kt headwind and 2 kt crosswind on 32 versus 7 kt headwind on 34R.|This would be a change from the current 34L and 35 configuration.|No known runway closure prevents this configuration.|Recorded use with wind from the northwest favored 34L (100% of 76 h (D-ATIS)), not 32 — local practice may override wind.|Confidence falls with forecast distance (+1 h).
3. +2 h0215Z · 8:15 PM MDT·16R/34L: not favored·airport-wide likely 32 then 34R·8 kt headwind, 2 kt crosswind·Low 43%·wind 320° at 8 kt·Why TAF forecast wind 320° at 8 kt favors northwest-facing runway ends: 8 kt headwind and 2 kt crosswind on 32 versus 7 kt headwind on 34R.|This would be a change from the current 34L and 35 configuration.|No known runway closure prevents this configuration.|Recorded use with wind from the northwest favored 34L (100% of 76 h (D-ATIS)), not 32 — local practice may override wind.|Confidence falls with forecast distance (+2 h).
4. +3 h0315Z · 9:15 PM MDT·16R/34L: not favored·airport-wide likely 16L then 14·South flow·5 kt headwind, 1 kt crosswind·Low 47%·wind 160° at 5 kt·Why TAF forecast wind 160° at 5 kt favors south-facing runway ends: 5 kt headwind and 1 kt crosswind on 16L versus 5 kt headwind on 14.|This would be a change from the current 34L and 35 configuration.|No known runway closure prevents this configuration.|Recorded use with wind from the south: 16R was named for arrivals 100% of 56 h (D-ATIS).|Confidence falls with forecast distance (+3 h).
5. +6 h0615Z · 12:15 AM MDT·16R/34L: not favored·airport-wide likely 16L then 14·South flow·5 kt headwind, 1 kt crosswind·Low 38%·wind 160° at 5 kt·Why TAF forecast wind 160° at 5 kt favors south-facing runway ends: 5 kt headwind and 1 kt crosswind on 16L versus 5 kt headwind on 14.|This would be a change from the current 34L and 35 configuration.|No known runway closure prevents this configuration.|Recorded use with wind from the south: 16R was named for arrivals 100% of 56 h (D-ATIS).|Confidence falls with forecast distance (+6 h).
6. +12 h1215Z · 6:15 AM MDT·16R/34L: not favored·airport-wide likely 16L then 14·South flow·5 kt headwind, 1 kt crosswind·Low 20%·wind 160° at 5 kt·Why TAF forecast wind 160° at 5 kt favors south-facing runway ends: 5 kt headwind and 1 kt crosswind on 16L versus 5 kt headwind on 14.|This would be a change from the current 34L and 35 configuration.|No known runway closure prevents this configuration.|Recorded use with wind from the south: 16R was named for arrivals 100% of 56 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 (713 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 2320Z (5:20 PM 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.

Rows marked “Runway 16R/34L” are sectorized to this runway complex in the FAA record; “Airport-wide” rows serve every runway. Source: FAA NASR FRQ, cycle 2026-10-01. Verify on the current chart supplement before use.

Length

12,000 ft

Width

150 ft

Surface

Concrete · Good condition

Surface treatment

Grooved

Weight bearing (lb)

S 120k · D 250k · 2D 550k · 2D/2D2 1120k

PCN

1370

Runway lights

Lighted

Airport elevation

4,231 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 16R/34L 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 (2020), 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 — 713 hours of D-ATIS runway configuration history collected · 11 distinct configurations observed · 972 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 KSLC is a separate module. 90-day, 12-month and seasonal views appear once the record is long enough.

12 departure procedures · 18 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.