# Alert Bay Airport (YAL / CYAL)

**Alert Bay Airport** (IATA: YAL, ICAO: CYAL) is a small airport in Alert Bay, British Columbia, Canada. It has one runway, 884 m (2,900 ft) long, asphalt.

Web page: https://dromopedia.com/airports/cyal

## At a glance

- IATA / ICAO: YAL / CYAL
- Type: Small airport
- Serves: Alert Bay, British Columbia, Canada
- Elevation: 73 m / 240 ft
- Coordinates: 50.5822, -126.9160
- Runways: 1
- Longest runway: 884 m / 2,900 ft
- Time zone: UTC-8/-7 · America/Vancouver
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alert_Bay_Airport (9 languages)
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3913242
- Weather station: CYZT · WMO 71109
- Ident: CYAL

## Runways

| Ident | Length | Width | Surface | True headings | Lighted |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 09/27 | 884 m / 2,900 ft | 23 m / 75 ft | Asphalt |  |  |

## Rankings

Ranked among 48,075 open airports; = marks a shared place.

| Measure | Value | World | Region | Country |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Longest runway | 884 m / 2,900 ft | =17,331 of 29,858 | =7,257 in North America | =752 in CA |
| Elevation | 73 m / 240 ft | =32,911 of 43,403 | =15,069 in North America | =1,195 in CA |
| Runways | 1 | =4,364 of 29,978 | =2,583 in North America | =233 in CA |

## Nearby airports

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- [YZT](https://dromopedia.com/airports/cyzt.md) Port Hardy Airport · 34 km / 21 mi
- [CA-0788](https://dromopedia.com/airports/ca-0788.md) Rivers Inlet Airport · 124 km / 77 mi
- [YRR](https://dromopedia.com/airports/ca-0446.md) Stuart Island Airstrip · 128 km / 79 mi
- [CA-0240](https://dromopedia.com/airports/ca-0240.md) Moh Creek Airport · 132 km / 82 mi
- [YBL](https://dromopedia.com/airports/cybl.md) Campbell River Airport · 136 km / 85 mi

## In collections

- [Shortest runways with airline service](https://dromopedia.com/collections/shortest-scheduled) #70

## Sources

- [NOAA Aviation Weather Center](https://aviationweather.gov/data/api/): Weather data: NOAA Aviation Weather Center (Public Domain (US Government))
- [OurAirports](https://ourairports.com/data/): Airport data from OurAirports (Public Domain)
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org): Structured data from Wikidata (CC0 1.0)
- [timezone-boundary-builder](https://github.com/evansiroky/timezone-boundary-builder): Time zone boundaries © OpenStreetMap contributors, timezone-boundary-builder (ODbL 1.0)
- Every figure with its source: https://dromopedia.com/airports/cyal/data