William P. Hobby Airport

William P. Hobby Airport (HOU/KHOU) is in Houston, US, 14 m above sea level. It has 3 runways and the longest is 2,317 m. See the diagram, each runway's data and what you fly over from here.

The diagram

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Drawn to scale from the real coordinates of each runway end. Runways without coordinates are not drawn.

Data

Codes
HOU · KHOU
City
Houston
Country
US
Coordinates
29.6453, -95.2768
Elevation
14 m · 46 ft
Time zone
America/Chicago
Local time now
09:39
Airspace
Houston
Departures observed
312 · 7 arrivals
Most seen destinations
DAL, AUS, MSY, ATL, OKC

Departures and arrivals we saw ourselves on adsb.lol traces over 2 day(s). A floor, not the total number of movements: where no receiver is nearby, nothing is seen.

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That day’s flights

What we saw take off and land on 2026-09-03, in local time here. This is not an arrivals board: it does not say what leaves today, it says what flew that day and only what the receivers managed to see.

Took off (40)

TimeCallsignAircraftTo
19:03SWA1898B38M · N8740ABNA
19:07SWA1970— · N9021FMEM
19:09SWA2217B738 · N8573ZATL
19:10SWA1418B38M · N1811UPIT
19:13SWA4230B738 · N8677AFLL
19:14N488BBE40 · N488BSAT
19:28N36BLLJ31 · N36BLJCI
19:32SWA4422B38M · N8872QMIA
19:35JSX287E145 · N950JXDAL
19:42N903SMPC12 · N903SM
19:43SWA1948B38M · N8896LLGA
19:50XAEMMLJ45 · XA-EMM
20:10SKW6252CRJ7 · N758SKDFW
20:39N774LKBE20 · N774LK
20:41N139LJCL60 · N139LJUS-6886
20:43SWA1994B738 · N8683DPHX
20:45SWA3830B738 · N8319FOKC
20:50SWA614B38M · N8854QDEN
20:52SWA2685B38M · N8827QMCI
20:55SWA1925B738 · N8556ZUS-4964
20:56SWA51B737 · N486WNKT69
21:00SWA1229B738 · N8517FAUS
21:03SWA54B38M · N8865LDAL
21:05SWA3587B737 · N7729AMSY
21:07SWA893B737 · N7832AABQ
21:17SWA4420B737 · N485WNMAF
21:21SWA4588B738 · N8529ZAUS
21:22SWA1940B738 · N8626BLAS
22:03SWA570B738 · N8537ZONT
22:06SWA2278B738 · N8532SMDW
22:22DAL8842B752 · N6707APHX
22:41FRG611BE99 · N399CZLRD
22:53N650FJGLF6 · N650FJ
23:12SWA3599B737 · N440LVSAT
05:11SWA1156B38M · N8741LMDW
05:30SWA1281B738 · N8689CMCO
05:37SWA360B38M · N8952QLAX
05:38SWA2164B737 · N7747CSTL
06:02DAL2557A320 · N354NWATL
06:06SWA2920B738 · N8630BMSY

Landed (7)

TimeCallsignAircraftFrom
16:37SWA3302B38M · N8909LMDW
16:55SWA5157B38M · N8888MSTL
16:57DAL1444A319 · N348NBATL
16:58JSX290E145 · N932JXDAL
17:00N4976HC25A · N4976HUS-2386
17:02SWA35BE35 · N9016SDAL
17:05N504PSC25B · N504PSUS-12757

The callsign is what the aircraft transmits by radio. It usually matches the commercial flight number, but not always: sometimes it is the registration.

Showing the first 40 in each direction.

Runways (3)

RunwayLength SurfaceHeadings
04/222,317 m · 7,602 ftconcrete44° · 224°
13R/31L2,317 m · 7,602 ftasphalt134° · 314°
13L/31R1,569 m · 5,148 ftconcrete134° · 314°

An asterisk marks a heading derived from the runway number rather than measured. The number is a magnetic heading and the measured one is true: the derived value carries the local magnetic declination, up to 20 degrees.

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