# Arviat Airport (YEK / CYEK)

**Arviat Airport** (IATA: YEK, ICAO: CYEK) is a small airport in Arviat, Nunavut, Canada. It has one runway, 1,219 m (4,000 ft) long, gravel. In 2010 it handled 14 thousand passengers.

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

## At a glance

- IATA / ICAO: YEK / CYEK
- Type: Small airport
- Serves: Arviat, Nunavut, Canada
- Elevation: 10 m / 32 ft
- Coordinates: 61.0942, -94.0708
- Runways: 1
- Longest runway: 1,219 m / 4,000 ft
- Passengers: 14,072 (2010)
- Time zone: UTC-6/-5 · America/Rankin_Inlet
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arviat_Airport (12 languages)
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2903032
- Weather station: CYEK · WMO 71174
- Ident: CYEK

## Runways

| Ident | Length | Width | Surface | True headings | Lighted |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 15T/33T | 1,219 m / 4,000 ft | 31 m / 100 ft | Gravel | 149° / 329° | yes |

## Routes

1 destination in 1 country. From the airport's Wikipedia article.

### Year-round (1)

- [YRT](https://dromopedia.com/airports/cyrt.md) Rankin Inlet Airport · Canada · 217 km / 135 mi · Calm Air

## Airlines

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

### Passenger (1)

- MO [Calm Air](https://dromopedia.com/airlines/calm-air) · 1

## Rankings

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

| Measure | Value | World | Region | Country |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Passengers | 14K (2010) | #2,561 of 3,974 | #612 in North America | #70 in CA |
| Longest runway | 1,219 m / 4,000 ft | =9,646 of 29,858 | =3,829 in North America | =325 in CA |
| Elevation | 10 m / 32 ft | =40,371 of 43,403 | =18,256 in North America | =1,383 in CA |
| Runways | 1 | =4,364 of 29,978 | =2,583 in North America | =233 in CA |

## Radio frequencies

| Type | Description | MHz |
| --- | --- | --- |
| AWOS | AWOS | 128.700 |
| RDO | ARPT RDO | 122.100 |

## Nearby airports

- [YXN](https://dromopedia.com/airports/cyxn.md) Whale Cove Airport · 149 km / 93 mi

## 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: “Arviat Airport”](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Arviat_Airport&oldid=1363014366), 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/cyek/data