# Kugaaruk Airport (YBB / CYBB)

**Kugaaruk Airport** (IATA: YBB, ICAO: CYBB) is a small airport in Kugaaruk, Nunavut, Canada. It has one runway, 1,524 m (5,000 ft) long, gravel.

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

## At a glance

- IATA / ICAO: YBB / CYBB
- Type: Small airport
- Serves: Kugaaruk, Nunavut, Canada
- Elevation: 17 m / 56 ft
- Coordinates: 68.5357, -89.8055
- Runways: 1
- Longest runway: 1,524 m / 5,000 ft
- Time zone: UTC-7/-6 · America/Cambridge_Bay
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kugaaruk_Airport (12 languages)
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2875852
- Weather station: CYBB
- Ident: CYBB

## Runways

| Ident | Length | Width | Surface | True headings | Lighted |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 05/23 | 1,524 m / 5,000 ft | 31 m / 100 ft | Gravel | 049° / 229° | yes |

## Routes

4 destinations in 1 country. From the airport's Wikipedia article.

### Year-round (4)

- [YYH](https://dromopedia.com/airports/cyyh.md) Taloyoak Airport · Canada · 187 km / 116 mi · Canadian North
- [YHK](https://dromopedia.com/airports/cyhk.md) Gjoa Haven Airport · Canada · 246 km / 153 mi · Canadian North
- [YCB](https://dromopedia.com/airports/cycb.md) Cambridge Bay Airport · Canada · 618 km / 384 mi · Canadian North
- [YZF](https://dromopedia.com/airports/cyzf.md) Yellowknife International Airport · Canada · 1,308 km / 813 mi · Canadian North

## Airlines

The figure is how many destinations each airline flies from YBB, as the routes above have them. Hubs from Wikidata.

### Passenger (1)

- 5T [Canadian North](https://dromopedia.com/airlines/canadian-north) · 4

## Rankings

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

| Measure | Value | World | Region | Country |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Longest runway | 1,524 m / 5,000 ft | =6,591 of 29,858 | =2,430 in North America | =182 in CA |
| Elevation | 17 m / 56 ft | =38,889 of 43,403 | =17,634 in North America | =1,357 in CA |
| Runways | 1 | =4,364 of 29,978 | =2,583 in North America | =233 in CA |

## Radio frequencies

| Type | Description | MHz |
| --- | --- | --- |
| ATF | MANDATORY FREQ | 122.100 |
| RDO | ARPT RDO | 122.100 |

## Nearby airports

No open airport within 150 km / 93 mi.

## In collections

- [Northernmost airline service](https://dromopedia.com/collections/northernmost) #82

## 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)
- [Wikipedia: “Kugaaruk Airport”](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kugaaruk_Airport&oldid=1363050551), revision of 7 Jul 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- [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/cybb/data