Regional airport
Palo Alto Airport.
- Longest paved runway
- 2,441 ft
- Field elevation
- 4 ft
- Runway-capable types
- 0 of 24
- Coordinates
- 37.46, -122.11
Palo Alto Airport's 2,441 ft of runway is shorter than most of the 152 jet-capable fields in California, close to sea level, so the published runway figure is close to what an aircraft actually needs here. None of the 24 types we publish specifications for clears it at this elevation. San Francisco's published corridors start 8 miles from this field.
Access
Getting here
Straight-line distances from the cities we publish, with a typical aircraft's block time including taxi, climb and descent.
- 8 mi28 minShort legpriced at the daily minimum
- 53 mi36 minShort legpriced at the daily minimum
- 303 mi1 h 20 mShort legpriced at the daily minimum
- 397 mi1 h 36 mShort legpriced at the daily minimum
- 586 mi2 h 09 mfrom $4,167one way, all‑in indicative
- 632 mi2 h 17 mfrom $4,494one way, all‑in indicative
- 732 mi2 h 34 mfrom $5,207one way, all‑in indicative
- 806 mi2 h 47 mfrom $5,731one way, all‑in indicative
From-prices are one way and all-in — operator price, our fee and federal excise tax — for the smallest cabin suited to the distance, indicative rather than quoted. Short legs sit at the smallest cabin's daily minimum, so we show distance and time for those and price them on request.
Runway
What can operate here
Compared against the published balanced field length of every type we broker, with roughly 3% added per 1,000 ft of elevation for density altitude.
This is runway length only. Individual airports also restrict by wingspan, noise curfew, slot availability and special approach certification, and performance moves with temperature, weight and the day. Clearing the runway here means an aircraft is worth asking about — the operator confirms it, and signs for it.
None of the types we publish specifications for clear this runway at this elevation. That does not mean nothing can land — it means the right aircraft sits outside our published set, and a broker should size it by hand.
Ruled out by runway length: Pilatus PC-12, Cessna Citation CJ3+, Cessna Citation M2, Beechcraft King Air 350, Cessna Citation CJ4, Cessna Citation XLS+ and 18 more — the shortest of these needs about 2,650 ft here.
Alternates
Nearby alternates
The closest other jet-capable fields, in case weather, slots or runway length send the trip somewhere else.