Long Beach Airport noise

Updated 23 October 2026

Modeled estimates for general information only — not measurements, not a guarantee, and not for legal, medical or real-estate decisions.

Long Beach Airport (LGB) is run by the City of Long Beach. The I-405 passes about 1 km from its reference point, and Lakewood and Signal Hill are within 3 km. Quiet LA draws the airport’s official noise contours, adds an estimate derived from them to the 24 h value, and replays recorded flights of one sample day. It does not count individual flights or model helicopters.

See Long Beach Airport on the map

What the map shows near Long Beach Airport

In the 24 h view the map adds an aircraft estimate to road and train noise. For Long Beach it starts from the 65 and 70 CNEL contours in the airport’s noise report for the fourth quarter of 2024. Quiet LA stretches those lines outward to 55 CNEL, using the spacing of the airport’s own lines, and interpolates between them. Nothing is added outside 55 CNEL.

Day, Evening and Night never include aircraft. Roads are the other big source around the airport: the 405 freeway passes about a kilometer from the airport reference point, and the map’s 24 h value adds the aircraft estimate to the road and train noise by energy.

Runways and flight tracks

The runway data the map uses lists three runways at Long Beach: 12/30, about 10,000 feet long, running northwest to southeast, and the parallel pair 8L/26R, about 6,192 feet, and 8R/26L, about 3,918 feet, running east to west (OurAirports, public domain). With the Aircraft switch on, the map replays recorded flights of one sample day below 15,000 feet as moving lights, with a line only where a flight is likely to be heard on the ground. It is an illustrative replay, sped up. No aircraft is identified, and one day does not show how often flights pass over a street.

See How it’s made for the method and Sources & methods for every report the contours come from.

What the map does not show

• Individual flights, departures or overflights, and how many there are on a given day.
• Helicopters. See helicopter noise in Los Angeles.
• Aircraft noise below 55 CNEL, which people can still hear.
• An official or measured aircraft level, or whether the airport’s noise ordinance is met. The layer is an estimate derived from the official contours. See Limits.

Area pages whose boundary lies within 3 km of the Long Beach Airport reference point, alphabetically: Lakewood, Long Beach, Signal Hill. Distance to the airport is the only thing this list says; each page has its own modeled figures.

Which areas lie inside the Long Beach Airport 65 CNEL contour?

This list uses the airport’s published 65 CNEL contour: the line in Long Beach Airport Noise Report - 4th Quarter - 2024, received by Quiet LA on 3 February 2025. It is the outermost official line the map starts from. An area page is listed when more than 0.01 square kilometers of the area lie inside that line, found by laying the official contour over the area boundaries.

Cities and communities: Long Beach.

The lists are alphabetical and in no other order. Being on one says nothing about the sound at any address in the area: the contour comes from the document named above, and Quiet LA’s aircraft estimate is derived from it, in the 24 h view only. Each area page has its own modeled figures.

Where to send a Long Beach Airport noise complaint

Contacts checked against the City of Long Beach and FAA pages on 21 October 2026. Phone numbers change, so confirm on the agency page before you call.

The airport’s Noise and Capacity Management Office takes noise concerns three ways: by phone at its Noise Concern Hotline, (562) 573-9842; through WebTrak, where you can review flight tracks and noise levels and report an aircraft; and through its noise concern form. For general information the office lists a landline at (562) 570-2635. Its page also describes the airport’s Noise Compatibility Ordinance and the City Council’s 2025 update to its fines.

The FAA regulates aircraft noise standards, flight procedures and air traffic. For noise from a local airport, it says to contact the airport first; for general concerns it directs people to its ANCIR Portal. Other noise has other contacts: see who to call about noise in Los Angeles.