Airports in California
All airports closest to California's geographic center, ranked by the number of scheduled departures on file. Click any IATA code to see the airport's destinations, operators, and route table.
| IATA | Airport | City | Departures |
|---|---|---|---|
| LAX | Los Angeles International Airport | Los Angeles | 489 |
| SFO | San Francisco International Airport | San Francisco | 249 |
| SAN | San Diego International Airport | San Diego | 119 |
| SJC | Norman Y. Mineta San Jose International Airport | San Jose | 60 |
| SMF | Sacramento International Airport | Sacramento | 55 |
| OAK | Metropolitan Oakland International Airport | Oakland | 54 |
| SNA | John Wayne Airport-Orange County Airport | Santa Ana | 42 |
| PSP | Palm Springs International Airport | Palm Springs | 26 |
| ONT | Ontario International Airport | Ontario | 24 |
| FAT | Fresno Yosemite International Airport | Fresno | 20 |
| LGB | Long Beach /Daugherty Field/ Airport | Long Beach | 18 |
| BUR | Bob Hope Airport | Burbank | 18 |
| MRY | Monterey Peninsula Airport | Monterey | 10 |
| SBA | Santa Barbara Municipal Airport | Santa Barbara | 8 |
| BFL | Meadows Field | Bakersfield | 6 |
| STS | Charles M. Schulz Sonoma County Airport | Santa Rosa | 6 |
| SBP | San Luis County Regional Airport | San Luis Obispo | 4 |
| SMX | Santa Maria Pub/Capt G Allan Hancock Field | Santa Maria | 2 |
| SCK | Stockton Metropolitan Airport | Stockton | 1 |
| MOD | Modesto City Co-Harry Sham Field | Modesto | 1 |
| CLD | Mc Clellan-Palomar Airport | Carlsbad | 1 |
| VIS | Visalia Municipal Airport | Visalia | 1 |
| MCE | Merced Regional Macready Field | Merced | 1 |
| OAR | Marina Municipal Airport | Fort Ord | 0 |
| MHR | Sacramento Mather Airport | Sacramento | 0 |
| BYS | Bicycle Lake Army Air Field | Fort Irwin | 0 |
| SUU | Travis Air Force Base | Fairfield | 0 |
| NKX | Miramar Marine Corps Air Station - Mitscher Field | Miramar | 0 |
| HHR | Jack Northrop Field Hawthorne Municipal Airport | Hawthorne | 0 |
| NTD | Point Mugu Naval Air Station (Naval Base Ventura Co) | Point Mugu | 0 |
| EDW | Edwards Air Force Base | Edwards Afb | 0 |
| NLC | Lemoore Naval Air Station (Reeves Field) Airport | Lemoore | 0 |
| VCV | Southern California Logistics Airport | Victorville | 0 |
| NZY | North Island Naval Air Station-Halsey Field | San Diego | 0 |
| BAB | Beale Air Force Base | Marysville | 0 |
| SAC | Sacramento Executive Airport | Sacramento | 0 |
| MER | Castle Airport | Merced | 0 |
| MCC | Mc Clellan Airfield | Sacramento | 0 |
| PMD | Palmdale Regional/USAF Plant 42 Airport | Palmdale | 0 |
| NUQ | Moffett Federal Airfield | Mountain View | 0 |
| RAL | Riverside Municipal Airport | Riverside | 0 |
| VBG | Vandenberg Air Force Base | Lompoc | 0 |
| RIV | March ARB Airport | Riverside | 0 |
| VNY | Van Nuys Airport | Van Nuys | 0 |
| NZJ | El Toro Marine Corps Air Station | Santa Ana | 0 |
| FUL | Fullerton Municipal Airport | Fullerton | 0 |
| OXR | Oxnard Airport | Oxnard | 0 |
| AVX | Catalina Airport | Catalina Island | 0 |
| MHV | Mojave Airport | Mojave | 0 |
| TOA | Zamperini Field | Torrance | 0 |
| IYK | Inyokern Airport | Inyokern | 0 |
| LVK | Livermore Municipal Airport | Livermore | 0 |
| RMY | Mariposa Yosemite Airport | Mariposa | 0 |
| TRM | Jacqueline Cochran Regional Airport | Palm Springs | 0 |
| SMO | Santa Monica Municipal Airport | Santa Monica | 0 |
| UDD | Bermuda Dunes Airport | Palm Springs | 0 |
| APC | Napa County Airport | Napa | 0 |
| SDM | Brown Field Municipal Airport | San Diego | 0 |
| SBD | San Bernardino International Airport | San Bernardino | 0 |
| SQL | San Carlos Airport | San Carlos | 0 |
| SEE | Gillespie Field | El Cajon | 0 |
| RBK | French Valley Airport | Murrieta-Temecula | 0 |
| MYV | Yuba County Airport | Yuba City | 0 |
| CCR | Buchanan Field | Concord | 0 |
| NOT | Marin County Airport - Gnoss Field | Novato | 0 |
| WHP | Whiteman Airport | Los Angeles | 0 |
| MAE | Madera Municipal Airport | Madera | 0 |
| LPC | Lompoc Airport | Lompoc | 0 |
| POC | Brackett Field | La Verne | 0 |
| PAO | Palo Alto Airport of Santa Clara County | Palo Alto | 0 |
| HWD | Hayward Executive Airport | Hayward | 0 |
| NGZ | Alameda Naval Air Station | Alameda | 0 |
| EMT | San Gabriel Valley Airport | El Monte | 0 |
| CCB | Cable Airport | Upland | 0 |
| CNO | Chino Airport | Chino | 0 |
| PRB | Paso Robles Municipal Airport | Paso Robles | 0 |
| HAF | Half Moon Bay Airport | Half Moon Bay | 0 |
| WJF | General WM J Fox Airfield | Lancaster | 0 |
| BNG | Banning Municipal Airport | Banning | 0 |
| RHV | Reid-Hillview Airport of Santa Clara County | San Jose | 0 |
| WVI | Watsonville Municipal Airport | Watsonville | 0 |
| HLI | Hollister Municipal Airport | Hollister | 0 |
| DAG | Barstow Daggett Airport | Daggett | 0 |
| SNS | Salinas Municipal Airport | Salinas | 0 |
| UKI | Ukiah Municipal Airport | Ukiah | 0 |
| SQA | Santa Ynez Airport | Santa Ynez | 0 |
About this list
California's airport list is built by taking every US airport in the source dataset, computing the great-circle distance from each airport to all 52 state centroids, and grouping the airport under the closest one. Every state ends up with a populated page that way, including the small states that share their nearest international gateway with a neighbour. The flip side is that a handful of airports very close to a state border get filed under the neighbouring side.
The departures column reflects the number of distinct scheduled routes recorded against each airport in the OpenFlights routes table. A high count usually indicates a hub or focus city for one or more carriers; a low count typically points to seasonal or single-carrier service. For an authoritative real-time view, always confirm schedules with the operating airline.
Connecting onward
Most travelers in California reach long-haul destinations by connecting through a larger national or international hub. On any airport page below, the destinations table links straight through to the destination airport, where you can repeat the drill-down to see how onward connections fan out from there. Browsing this way gives you a feel for how a state plugs into the wider US and global network. Even small airports usually sit one or two hops away from any major world city.