JOS

Yakubu Gowon Airport

ICAO DNJO9.6398°N 8.8691°E1,290 m / 4,232 ftMedium airport
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Yakubu Gowon Airport (IATA: JOS, ICAO: DNJO) is a medium airport in Jos, Plateau State, Nigeria. It has one runway, 3,001 m (9,845 ft) long, asphalt. In 2017 it handled 55 thousand passengers.

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap
10/28095° / 275° · LIT
LENGTH3,001 m9,845 ftWIDTH45 m148 ftSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2015–2017
63K
59K
55K
151617

Routes

2 destinations · 1 country
Most destinationsMax Air 1ValueJet 1Arik Air 1

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from JOS. From the Wikipedia article “Yakubu Gowon Airport” (revision of 7 Jul 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country
Passengers55K (2017)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#2,051of 3,974 · #140 Africa · #15 NGLongest runway3,001 m9,845 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=1,184of 29,823 · =181 Africa · #14 NGElevation1,290 m4,232 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=3,091of 43,341 · #623 Africa · #1 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
TWRJOS TWR122.700