The following

airport An airport is an aerodrome with extended facilities, mostly for commercial air transport. Airports usually consists of a landing area, which comprises an aerially accessible open space including at least one operationally active surface ...

s are in the area around the

San Francisco Bay San Francisco Bay is a large tidal estuary in the U.S. state of California, and gives its name to the San Francisco Bay Area. It is dominated by the big cities of San Francisco, San Jose, and Oakland. San Francisco Bay drains water from a ...

, including the cities of San Jose,

San Francisco San Francisco (; Spanish language, Spanish for "Francis of Assisi, Saint Francis"), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Northern California. The city proper is the List of Ca ...

, and

Oakland Oakland is the largest city and the county seat of Alameda County, California, United States. A major West Coast port, Oakland is the largest city in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area, the third largest city overall in the Bay A ...

. The list includes only public-use and/or government-owned airports in the eleven counties (the nine counties that border the bay, plus Santa Cruz and San Benito Counties) that make up the Census Bureau's

San Jose–San Francisco–Oakland, CA Combined Statistical Area The San Francisco Bay Area, often referred to as simply the Bay Area, is a populous region surrounding the San Francisco, San Pablo, and Suisun Bay estuaries in Northern California. The Bay Area is defined by the Association of Bay Area Gover ...

Commercial airports

The Bay Area has four airports with airline service. *

San Francisco International Airport San Francisco International Airport is an international airport in an unincorporated area of San Mateo County, south of Downtown San Francisco. It has flights to points throughout North America and is a major gateway to Europe, the Middle E ...

(KSFO) — Class B airspace * Norman Y. Mineta San José International Airport (KSJC) —

Class C airspace The world's navigable airspace is divided into three-dimensional segments, each of which is assigned to a specific class. Most nations adhere to the classification specified by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) and described be ...

Oakland International Airport Oakland International Airport is an international airport in Oakland, California, United States, 10 miles (16 km) south of downtown located in the San Francisco Bay Area. It is owned by the Port of Oakland and has domestic passenger f ...

(KOAK) —

Charles M. Schulz–Sonoma County Airport Charles M. Schulz–Sonoma County Airport is 7 miles (11 km) northwest of downtown Santa Rosa, California, in Sonoma County, California, United States. The airport is named after Charles M. Schulz, the famed cartoonist of the ''Peanuts'' ...

(KSTS) —

Class D airspace The world's navigable airspace is divided into three-dimensional segments, each of which is assigned to a specific class. Most nations adhere to the classification specified by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) and described be ...

Federal airports

The following airports are operated by the federal government and are not open to the public. These airports have Class D airspace. *

Moffett Federal Airfield Moffett Federal Airfield , also known as Moffett Field, is a joint civil-military airport located in an unincorporated part of Santa Clara County, California, United States, between northern Mountain View and northern Sunnyvale. On November 10, ...

(KNUQ) in Mountain View and Sunnyvale, Santa Clara County *

Travis Air Force Base Travis Air Force Base is a United States Air Force base under the operational control of the Air Mobility Command (AMC), located three miles (5 km) east of the central business district of the city of Fairfield, in Solano County, Californi ...

(KSUU) in Fairfield, Solano County

General aviation airports

Towered

The following

general aviation General aviation (GA) is defined by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) as all civil aviation aircraft operations with the exception of commercial air transport or aerial work, which is defined as specialized aviation services ...

airports have enough traffic to have an

air traffic control tower Air traffic control (ATC) is a service provided by ground-based air traffic controllers who direct aircraft on the ground and through a given section of controlled airspace, and can provide advisory services to aircraft in non-controlled airsp ...

. These airports have Class D airspace. *

Buchanan Field Airport Buchanan Field Airport is a public airport in Contra Costa County, California, United States, a mile west of the center of Concord and east of Pacheco. The airport's street address is 550 Sally Ride Drive, Concord. The National Plan of Integ ...

(KCCR) in Concord, Contra Costa County *

Hayward Executive Airport Hayward Executive Airport is a municipal airport in Hayward, California. The National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015 categorized it as a ''reliever airport''. The towered airport near the east shore of San Francisco Bay w ...

(KHWD) in Hayward, Alameda County *

Livermore Municipal Airport Livermore Municipal Airport is three miles west of Livermore, California, in Alameda County, California. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2017–2021 categorized it as a regional reliev ...

(KLVK) in Livermore, Alameda County *

Napa County Airport Napa County Airport (Napa Valley Airport) is a public airport five miles (8 km) south of Napa, in Napa County, California, United States. It has three runways. During 2008 the airport's 1960-era control tower received extensive radio, plumb ...

(KAPC) in Napa, Napa County *

Palo Alto Airport Palo Alto Airport is a general aviation airport in the city of Palo Alto in Santa Clara County, California, United States, near the south end of San Francisco Bay on the western shore. Facilities Palo Alto Airport covers and has one asphalt ...

(KPAO) in Palo Alto, Santa Clara County *

Reid–Hillview Airport Reid–Hillview Airport of Santa Clara County is in the eastern part of San Jose, in Santa Clara County Santa Clara County, officially the County of Santa Clara, is the sixth-most populous county in the U.S. state of California, with a popul ...

(KRHV) in San Jose, Santa Clara County * San Carlos Airport (KSQL) in San Carlos, San Mateo County

Non-towered

The following airports do not have control towers, but are listed by their owners as open to the public. Pilots announce runway and airspace usage via radio contact. These airports have

Class E airspace The world's navigable airspace is divided into three-dimensional segments, each of which is assigned to a specific class. Most nations adhere to the classification specified by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) and described bel ...

for those with an FAA-published

instrument approach procedure In aviation, an instrument approach or instrument approach procedure (IAP) is a series of predetermined maneuvers for the orderly transfer of an aircraft operating under instrument flight rules from the beginning of the initial approach to a landi ...

, or Class G airspace otherwise. *

Angwin–Parrett Field Virgil O. Parrett Field or Angwin Airport is a public use airport located one nautical mile (1.85 km) east of the central business district of Angwin, in Napa County, California, United States. It is owned by Pacific Union College. It is ...

(2O3) in Angwin, Napa County * Byron Airport (C83) in Byron, Contra Costa County *

Cloverdale Municipal Airport Cloverdale Municipal Airport is a public airport located three miles (4.8 km) southeast of Cloverdale, serving Sonoma County, California, United States. It is mostly used for general aviation. Other activities at the airport include skydivi ...

(O60) in Cloverdale, Sonoma County * Gnoss Field (KDVO) in Novato, Marin County *

Half Moon Bay Airport Eddie Andreini Sr. Airfield, officially Half Moon Bay Airport is a public airport in San Mateo County, northwest of Half Moon Bay, California, United States. The airport is on the Pacific Coast, south of San Francisco. History The Half Moon ...

(KHAF) in Half Moon Bay, San Mateo County * Healdsburg Municipal Airport (KHES) in Healdsburg, Sonoma County * Hollister Municipal Airport (KCVH) in Hollister, San Benito County * Nut Tree Airport (KVCB) in Vacaville, Solano County * Petaluma Municipal Airport (O69) in Petaluma, Sonoma County * Rio Vista Municipal Airport (O88) in Rio Vista, Solano County * Sonoma Skypark (0Q9) in Sonoma, Sonoma County * Sonoma Valley Airport (0Q3) in Sonoma, Sonoma County *

San Martin Airport San Martin Airport (formerly ''South County Airport of Santa Clara County'', colloquially ''South County Airport'') — formerly Q99 — is a public non-towered airport located one mile (1.6 km) east of San Martin, serving Santa C ...

(E16) in San Martin, Santa Clara County * Watsonville Municipal Airport (KWVI) in Watsonville, Santa Cruz County

Notable historical airports

Naval Air Station Alameda Naval Air Station Alameda (NAS Alameda) was a United States Navy Naval Air Station in Alameda, California, on San Francisco Bay. NAS Alameda had two runways: 13–31 measuring and 07-25 measuring . Two helicopter pads and a control tower were ...

in Alameda, Alameda County (closed 1997) * Alum Rock Airport in San Jose, Santa Clara County (closed approximately 1936) *

Crissy Field Crissy Field is a public recreation area on the northern shore of the San Francisco Peninsula in California, United States, located just east of the Golden Gate Bridge. It includes restored tidal marsh and beaches. Crissy Field is a former Un ...

in the City and County of San Francisco (airfield closed 1974) *

Hamilton Air Force Base Hamilton may refer to: People * Hamilton (name), a common British surname and occasional given name, usually of Scottish origin, including a list of persons with the surname ** The Duke of Hamilton, the premier peer of Scotland ** Lord Hamilt ...

in Novato, Marin County (closed 1996) * Santa Cruz Skypark in Scotts Valley, Santa Cruz County (closed 1983) *

Carmel Valley Airport Carmel Valley Airfield was a privately owned airpark in Carmel Valley, California, from 1941 to 2002. The airport was later called the Carmel Valley Vintage Airfield. The California Historical Resources Commission voted to nominate the "Carmel Va ...

Carmel Valley, California Carmel Valley is an unincorporated community in Monterey County, California, United States. The term "Carmel Valley" generally refers to the Carmel River watershed east of California State Route 1, and not specifically to the smaller Carmel V ...

(closed 2002)

Former airports

* Antioch Airport in Antioch, California
Fremont Airport
(identifier Q59) in Fremont, California * Montgomery Field / Marina Airfield, now called

Marina Green The Marina Green in San Francisco, California, is a expanse of grass between Fort Mason and the Presidio. It is adjacent to San Francisco Bay, and this location provides good views of the Golden Gate Bridge, Angel Island, Alcatraz Island, and p ...

(Airmail Facility), San Francisco, California, formerly named after aviation pioneer

John Joseph Montgomery John Joseph Montgomery (February 15, 1858 – October 31, 1911) was an American inventor, physicist, engineer, and professor at Santa Clara University in Santa Clara, California, who is best known for his invention of controlled heavier-than-air ...

* Sky Sailing Gliderport in Fremont California * Vacaville Airport/Vacaville Gliderport, in Vacaville, California