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
1,000 km2,000 km3,000 km4,000 km1,000 mi2,000 miBOY · Bobo Dioulasso Airport · 334 km / 208 miNIM · Diori Hamani International Airport · 420 km / 261 miBKO · Modibo Keita International Airport · 699 km / 434 miLFW · Lomé–Tokoin International Airport · 752 km / 467 miACC · Kotoka International Airport · 765 km / 475 miCOO · Cotonou Cadjehoun International Airport · 792 km / 492 miABJ · Félix-Houphouët-Boigny International Airport · 832 km / 517 miFNA · Lungi International Airport · 1,343 km / 835 miCKY · Ahmed Sékou Touré International Airport · 1,356 km / 843 miDSS · Blaise Diagne International Airport · 1,702 km / 1,058 miCMN · Mohammed V International Airport · 2,417 km / 1,502 miALG · Houari Boumediene Airport · 2,747 km / 1,707 miTUN · Tunis Carthage International Airport · 2,965 km / 1,842 miCAI · Cairo International Airport · 3,918 km / 2,435 miCDG · Charles de Gaulle International Airport · 4,093 km / 2,543 miBRU · Brussels Airport · 4,321 km / 2,685 miIST · İstanbul Airport · 4,355 km / 2,706 miISTBRUCDGCAITUNALGCMNDSSCKYABJCOOBKONIMBOYFNAACCLFWOUA
Year-round17
BOYBobo Dioulasso AirportBurkina Faso · Air Burkina334 km208 miNIMDiori Hamani International AirportNiger · Asky Airlines, Air Côte d'Ivoire, Air Burkina420 km261 miBKOModibo Keita International AirportMali · Asky Airlines, Air Burkina699 km434 miLFWLomé–Tokoin International AirportTogo · Asky Airlines, Air Burkina752 km467 miACCKotoka International AirportGhana · Air Burkina, Africa World Airlines765 km475 miCOOCotonou Cadjehoun International AirportBenin · Air Burkina792 km492 miABJFélix-Houphouët-Boigny International AirportCôte d’Ivoire · Air Côte d'Ivoire, Tunisair832 km517 miFNALungi International AirportSierra Leone · Turkish Airlines1,343 km835 miCKYAhmed Sékou Touré International AirportGuinea · Asky Airlines, Turkish Airlines1,356 km843 miDSSBlaise Diagne International AirportSenegal · Air Cairo, Air Burkina, Air Senegal1,702 km1,058 miCMNMohammed V International AirportMorocco · Royal Air Maroc2,417 km1,502 miALGHouari Boumediene AirportAlgeria · Air Algérie2,747 km1,707 miTUNTunis Carthage International AirportTunisia · Tunisair2,965 km1,842 miCAICairo International AirportEgypt · Air Cairo3,918 km2,435 miCDGCharles de Gaulle International AirportFrance · Air France4,093 km2,543 miBRUBrussels AirportBelgium · Brussels Airlines4,321 km2,685 miISTİstanbul AirportTürkiye · Turkish Airlines4,355 km2,706 mi
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