PZB

Pietermaritzburg Airport

ICAO FAPM29.6490°S 30.3987°E739 m / 2,423 ftMedium airport
On the map

Pietermaritzburg Airport (IATA: PZB, ICAO: FAPM) is a medium airport in Pietermaritzburg, Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa. It has one runway, 1,537 m (5,043 ft) long, asphalt. It is operated by Msunduzi Local Municipality.

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap
Terminal
16/34142° / 322° · LIT · SLOPE 1.4%
LENGTH1,537 m5,043 ftWIDTH30 m98 ftSURFACEAsphalt

Routes

1 destinations · 1 country
100 km200 km300 km400 km100 mi200 miJNB · O.R. Tambo International Airport · 444 km / 276 miJNBPZB

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from PZB. From the Wikipedia article “Pietermaritzburg Airport” (revision of 25 Jul 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country
Longest runway1,537 m5,043 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft#6,238of 29,823 · #634 Africa · #52 ZAElevation739 m2,423 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=7,203of 43,341 · #1,505 Africa · #345 ZARunways11 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=4,360of 29,943 · =176 Africa · =42 ZA
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

2 channels
TWRTWR122.000
APPDurban Approach Control125.750