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What runway is John Wayne Orange County International Airport (SNA/KSNA) using right now?

John Wayne Orange County International Airport active runway and live wind: landing 02L+02R, departure 20R+20L. Confidence D-ATIS CONFIRMED. Updated Tue 27 Oct, 03:16 local.

D-ATIS CONFIRMEDLand 02L, 02RDep 20R, 20L

John Wayne Orange County International Airport (SNA/KSNA) is using landing 02L+02R, departure 20R+20L right now. The badge is the confidence: D-ATIS when the tape names the runway, otherwise the NOAA METAR wind vector scored against every threshold.

D-ATIS named a departure, not a landing runway. The landing runway is the wind vector.

Live METAR and D-ATIS

Wind
CALM
Direction
Calm
Speed
0 kt
Gusts
None
Visibility
10+ sm
Pressure
1016 hPa
Flight category
VFR
Observed
Tue 27 Oct, 03:00

METAR KSNA 270953Z AUTO 00000KT 10SM CLR 17/13 A2999 RMK AO2 SLP156 T01670133 $

FAA D-ATIS J

Landing not named · Departure 20R, 20L · Closed none listed

SNA ATIS INFO J 0553Z. 00000KT 10SM FEW019 19/16 A3001 (THREE ZERO ZERO ONE) RMK LAST ATIS OF THE NIGHT. TOWER CLOSES AT 11PM LOCAL TIME.. VISUAL APPROACHES RWY 20R IN USE. LANDING AND DEPARTING RUNWAYS 20R AND 20L. RWY 20L DEPTS TURN LEFT 15 DEGREES AT DEP END OF RWY. CAUTION FOR CONST ADJ TWY A, ACFT RDC TAXI SPD AND USE MIN THRUST IN THE VCNTY OF CONST, AND RESTRICTED TO ACFT WITH WINGSPAN 135 FEET OR LESS. TWY A CLSD BTWN THE ACI-SOUTH RAMP AND TWY H. TWY H CLSD BTWN RWY20L AND TWY A. CAUTION,SIMULTAENOUS OPS TO CLOSELY SPACED PARALLEL RWYS. ACFT SOUTH OF H TXG ON A BE ADZD RY20L DEPTS MK IMDT SE TRN OVR A. THE CD FREQ FOR ALL ACFT IS 118.0. ...ADVS YOU HAVE INFO J.

Headwind, tailwind, and crosswind at KSNA

Every runway threshold at KSNA. Headwind is on the nose. Tailwind is the same component when the wind is on the tail. Positive crosswind in the source math is from the right.

ThresholdTrue hdgLengthHeadwindTailwindCrosswindFromRole
02L28°5,700 ft0.0 kt0.0 kt0.0 ktNoneLanding
20R208°5,700 ft0.0 kt0.0 kt0.0 ktNoneDeparture
02R28°2,886 ft0.0 kt0.0 kt0.0 ktNoneLanding
20L208°2,886 ft0.0 kt0.0 kt0.0 ktNoneDeparture
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Questions

What runway is John Wayne Orange County International Airport (SNA/KSNA) using right now?

As of Tue 27 Oct, 03:00 local, John Wayne Orange County International Airport (SNA/KSNA) is using landing 02L+02R, departure 20R+20L. Confidence: D-ATIS CONFIRMED. John Wayne Orange County International Airport active runway and live wind come from NOAA METAR (CALM) and FAA D-ATIS when the tape names a runway. 02L shows 0.0 kt headwind, 0.0 kt tailwind, and calm crosswind (0.0 kt). Closed runways: none listed. Open the live interactive map at https://planespottingmap.com/airport/KSNA or turn on Telegram Runway Shift Alerts at https://planespottingmap.com/airport/KSNA#runway-alerts.

How do crosswinds affect runway selection at John Wayne Orange County International Airport?

Aircraft land and depart into the wind. Headwind is the part of the wind along the runway heading. Crosswind is the part blowing across the pavement. A negative headwind is a tailwind. At John Wayne Orange County International Airport (SNA/KSNA) the live call is landing 02L+02R, departure 20R+20L with METAR wind CALM. 02L shows 0.0 kt headwind, 0.0 kt tailwind, and calm crosswind (0.0 kt). Controllers switch runways when the opposite threshold offers more headwind, or when the crosswind on the runway in use climbs. The component table lists every KSNA threshold so you can see which end holds the headwind and which end is taking the tailwind.