OUA

Ouagadougou Thomas Sankara International Airport

ICAO DFFD12.3532°N 1.5124°W316 m / 1,037 ftLarge airport
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Ouagadougou Thomas Sankara International Airport (IATA: OUA, ICAO: DFFD) is a large airport in Ouagadougou, Kadiogo Province, Burkina Faso. It has one runway, 3,000 m (9,843 ft) long, asphalt. In 2020 it handled 245 thousand passengers.

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap
04/22033° / 213° · LIT
LENGTH3,000 m9,843 ftWIDTH45 m148 ftSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2009–2020
377K
415K
436K
519K
553K
528K
495K
534K
550K
563K
619K
245K
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Routes

17 destinations · 17 countries
Most destinationsAir Burkina 7Asky Airlines 4Turkish Airlines 3Air Côte d'Ivoire 2Tunisair 2Air Cairo 2

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from OUA. From the Wikipedia article “Thomas Sankara International Airport Ouagadougou” (revision of 17 Sep 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country
Passengers245K (2020)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#1,443of 3,974 · #94 Africa · #1 BFLongest runway3,000 m9,843 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=1,196of 29,823 · =185 Africa · #2 BFElevation316 m1,037 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=17,093of 43,341 · #2,294 Africa · #16 BFRunways11 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=4,360of 29,943 · =176 Africa · =2 BF
Scale: share of airports ranked below, best on the right · ties shown as = and a band · passengers are each airport’s latest year on record

Radio frequencies

3 channels
A/GAG VOICE OUAGA RDO120.300
APPOUAGA APP118.100
TWROUAGA TWR118.100