# Richards Bay Airport (RCB / FARB)

**Richards Bay Airport** (IATA: RCB, ICAO: FARB) is a medium airport in Richards Bay, Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa. It has one runway, 1,300 m (4,265 ft) long, asphalt.

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

## At a glance

- IATA / ICAO: RCB / FARB
- Type: Medium airport
- Serves: Richards Bay, Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa
- Elevation: 33 m / 109 ft
- Coordinates: -28.7410, 32.0921
- Runways: 1
- Longest runway: 1,300 m / 4,265 ft
- Time zone: UTC+2 · Africa/Johannesburg
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richards_Bay_Airport (8 languages)
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7330281
- Weather station: FARB · WMO 68495
- Ident: FARB

## Runways

| Ident | Length | Width | Surface | True headings | Lighted |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 05/23 | 1,300 m / 4,265 ft | 21 m / 69 ft | Asphalt | 034° / 214° | 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 · 477 km / 296 mi · Airlink

## Airlines

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

### Passenger (1)

- 4Z [Airlink](https://dromopedia.com/airlines/airlink) · 1

## Rankings

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

| Measure | Value | World | Region | Country |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Longest runway | 1,300 m / 4,265 ft | =8,669 of 29,858 | =743 in Africa | =80 in ZA |
| Elevation | 33 m / 109 ft | =36,550 of 43,403 | #2,853 in Africa | #516 in ZA |
| Runways | 1 | =4,364 of 29,978 | =176 in Africa | =42 in ZA |

## Radio frequencies

| Type | Description | MHz |
| --- | --- | --- |
| APP | APP | 118.900 |
| TWR | TWR | 118.900 |

## Nearby airports

- [ULD](https://dromopedia.com/airports/faul.md) Prince Mangosuthu Buthelezi Airport · 81 km / 50 mi
- [MZQ](https://dromopedia.com/airports/famu.md) Mkuze Airport · 124 km / 77 mi
- [DUR](https://dromopedia.com/airports/fale.md) King Shaka International Airport · 135 km / 84 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: “Richards Bay Airport”](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Richards_Bay_Airport&oldid=1363074777), 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/farb/data