Yola Airport

ICAO DNYO9.2576°N 12.4304°E183 m / 599 ftMedium airport

Yola Airport (IATA: YOL, ICAO: DNYO) is a medium airport in Yola, Adamawa State, Nigeria. It has one runway, 2,999 m (9,840 ft) long, asphalt. In 2021 it handled 42 thousand passengers.

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap

17/35171° / 351° · LIT

LENGTH2,999 m9,840 ftWIDTH45 m148 ftSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2009–2021

109K

119K

93K

110K

135K

157K

164K

161K

147K

190K

228K

42K

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Routes

4 destinations · 2 countries

Year-round3

KANMallam Aminu Kano International AirportNigeria · Max Air528 km328 mi ABVNnamdi Azikiwe International AirportNigeria · ValueJet, Air Peace, Max Air +1568 km353 mi LOSMurtala Muhammed International AirportNigeria · Air Peace, Max Air, Aero Contractors1,046 km650 mi

Charter1

JEDKing Abdulaziz International AirportSaudi Arabia · Max Air3,172 km1,971 mi

Most destinationsMax Air 4Air Peace 2Aero Contractors 2ValueJet 1

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from YOL. Dashed: seasonal or charter. From the Wikipedia article “Yola Airport” (revision of 22 Sep 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country

Passengers42K (2021)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#2,144of 3,974 · #145 Africa · #16 NG Longest runway2,999 m9,840 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=1,385of 29,823 · =233 Africa · =18 NG Elevation183 m599 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=25,366of 43,341 · #2,541 Africa · #29 NG Runways11 · 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