BNI

Benin Airport

ICAO DNBE6.3170°N 5.5995°E79 m / 258 ftMedium airport
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Benin Airport (IATA: BNI, ICAO: DNBE) is a medium airport in Benin, Edo State, Nigeria. It has one runway, 2,399 m (7,870 ft) long, asphalt. In 2021 it handled 177 thousand passengers.

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap
05/23046° / 226° · LIT
LENGTH2,399 m7,870 ftWIDTH45 m148 ftSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2015–2021
144K
198K
254K
320K
350K
177K
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Routes

3 destinations · 1 country
Most destinationsAir Peace 3United Nigeria Airlines 2Aero Contractors 2Green Africa Airways 2Arik Air 2

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

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country
Passengers177K (2021)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#1,588of 3,974 · #106 Africa · #9 NGLongest runway2,399 m7,870 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=2,925of 29,823 · #354 Africa · #27 NGElevation79 m258 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=32,356of 43,341 · #2,725 Africa · #37 NGRunways11 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=4,360of 29,943 · =176 Africa · =3 NG
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

1 channels
TWRTWR122.500