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Norwich Airport

ICAO EGSH52.6758°N 1.2828°E36 m / 118 ftMedium airport
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Norwich Airport 25th October 2007
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Norwich Airport (IATA: NWI, ICAO: EGSH) is a medium airport in Norwich, Norfolk, England, United Kingdom. It opened in 1939. It has one runway, 1,842 m (6,043 ft) long, concrete. In 2022 it handled 319 thousand passengers.

Timeline

1 event · 1939–1939
1939
OpenedNorwich Airport opens.
From WikidataEvery airfield, 1903–2026

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap
09/27090° / 270° · LIT
LENGTH1,842 m6,043 ftWIDTH45 m148 ftSURFACEConcrete

Passengers per year

2011–2022
414K
397K
463K
459K
460K
506K
528K
537K
530K
120K
127K
319K
111213141516171819202122

Routes

15 destinations · 9 countries
1,000 km2,000 km3,000 km500 mi1,000 mi1,500 mi2,000 miAMS · Amsterdam Airport Schiphol · 239 km / 149 miABZ · Aberdeen International Airport · 550 km / 342 miALC · Alicante-Elche Miguel Hernández Airport · 1,607 km / 999 miMLA · Malta International Airport · 2,139 km / 1,329 miTFS · Tenerife Sur Airport · 3,110 km / 1,932 miJER · Jersey Airport · 456 km / 283 miMAH · Menorca Airport · 1,442 km / 896 miPMI · Palma de Mallorca Airport · 1,464 km / 910 miIBZ · Ibiza Airport · 1,535 km / 954 miFAO · Faro - Gago Coutinho International Airport · 1,884 km / 1,171 miCFU · Corfu Ioannis Kapodistrias International Airport · 2,031 km / 1,262 miHER · Heraklion International Nikos Kazantzakis Airport · 2,690 km / 1,671 miRHO · Rhodes International Airport "Diagoras" · 2,762 km / 1,716 miDLM · Dalaman International Airport · 2,777 km / 1,726 miPFO · Paphos International Airport · 3,164 km / 1,966 miPFOTFSDLMHERMLACFUFAOALCIBZABZJERAMSMAHRHOPMINWI
Most destinationsTUI Airways 9Ryanair 3Loganair 2KLM 1

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from NWI. Dashed: seasonal or charter. From the Wikipedia article “Norwich Airport” (revision of 30 Aug 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country
Passengers319K (2022)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#1,309of 3,974 · #283 Europe · #25 GBLongest runway1,842 m6,043 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=4,470of 29,823 · #803 Europe · #56 GBElevation36 m118 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=36,215of 43,341 · =4,804 Europe · #437 GBAgeOpened 19392026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=1,029of 15,079 · =495 Europe · =73 GBRunways11 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=4,360of 29,943 · =643 Europe · =120 GB
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

6 channels
APPNorwich Approach119.355
ATISNorwich Information128.630
TWRNorwich Tower124.255
RDRNorwich Radar / LARS119.355
DIRNorwich Director128.330
HANNorwich Handling131.855