Is there a way to find out which runway is used by which flight on a particular day/date?
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There are many factors that determine the runway in operation. The primary one that Greg mentioned is the direction of prevailing winds. Aircraft take off and land into the wind.
There are other considerations as well. Some airports have parallel runways in operation, so even though flights are taking off in the same direction, they are using different runways.
There might be other considerations - such as temporary stops or closures.
One reliable way is to tune into the ATC radio of the departing airport. You can find a large database of livestreams here. This will tell you exactly what runways are in use (they rarely change in a day).
If you are close enough to the airport in question, you can pick up a radio scanner and tune into the frequency of the tower and listen in live. Tower frequencies are published online.
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The runway used depends primarily on the direction of the wind. If the wind isn't very strong, then other considerations might apply (such as taxi distance required). And, the wind direction affects all flights into or out of an airport at any given time. There are no instances where planes will land in the opposite direction to one another. If the wind shifts significantly, the direction may change, but all planes will land in the same direction.
Your flight tracking links (I checked those from FlightAware) do show the runway used, you just have to compare the direction of takeoff or landing with a map of the airport. The tracking gets close enough that the aircraft is definitely not going to do any turns so close to the runway.
If your plan is to view specific flights, then look up those flights in historical tracking, see which runway is used, and show up at an appropriate time and place. Take note of the winds and if they don't make sense (aircraft always take off and land into significant wind), try another day.
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