# Margate Airport (MGH / FAMG)

**Margate Airport** (IATA: MGH, ICAO: FAMG) is a medium airport in Margate, Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa. It has one runway, 1,370 m (4,495 ft) long, asphalt.

Web page: https://dromopedia.com/airports/famg

## At a glance

- IATA / ICAO: MGH / FAMG
- Type: Medium airport
- Serves: Margate, Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa
- Elevation: 151 m / 495 ft
- Coordinates: -30.8574, 30.3430
- Runways: 1
- Longest runway: 1,370 m / 4,495 ft
- Time zone: UTC+2 · Africa/Johannesburg
- Website: http://www.flymargate.com/
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margate_Airport (10 languages)
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1031474
- Weather station: FAMG · WMO 68591
- Ident: FAMG

## Runways

| Ident | Length | Width | Surface | True headings | Lighted |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 05/23 | 1,370 m / 4,495 ft | 31 m / 100 ft | Asphalt | 022° / 202° | yes |

## Routes

1 destination in 1 country. From the airport's Wikipedia article.

### Year-round (1)

- [JNB](https://dromopedia.com/airports/faor.md) O.R. Tambo International Airport · South Africa · 563 km / 350 mi · CemAir

## Airlines

The figure is how many destinations each airline flies from MGH, as the routes above have them. Hubs from Wikidata.

### Passenger (1)

- 5Z [CemAir](https://dromopedia.com/airlines/cemair) · 1

## Rankings

Ranked among 48,075 open airports; = marks a shared place.

| Measure | Value | World | Region | Country |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Longest runway | 1,370 m / 4,495 ft | =8,225 of 29,858 | =721 in Africa | #73 in ZA |
| Elevation | 151 m / 495 ft | =27,180 of 43,403 | =2,594 in Africa | #458 in ZA |
| Runways | 1 | =4,364 of 29,978 | =176 in Africa | =42 in ZA |

## Radio frequencies

| Type | Description | MHz |
| --- | --- | --- |
| AFIS | CTAF | 122.700 |

## Nearby airports

- [JOH](https://dromopedia.com/airports/fapj.md) Port St Johns Airport · 114 km / 71 mi
- [PZB](https://dromopedia.com/airports/fapm.md) Pietermaritzburg Airport · 134 km / 84 mi
- [VIR](https://dromopedia.com/airports/favg.md) Virginia Airport · 139 km / 86 mi

## Sources

- [NOAA Aviation Weather Center](https://aviationweather.gov/data/api/): Weather data: NOAA Aviation Weather Center (Public Domain (US Government))
- [OurAirports](https://ourairports.com/data/): Airport data from OurAirports (Public Domain)
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org): Structured data from Wikidata (CC0 1.0)
- [Wikipedia: “Margate Airport”](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Margate_Airport&oldid=1363057111), revision of 7 Jul 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- [timezone-boundary-builder](https://github.com/evansiroky/timezone-boundary-builder): Time zone boundaries © OpenStreetMap contributors, timezone-boundary-builder (ODbL 1.0)
- Every figure with its source: https://dromopedia.com/airports/famg/data