Sir Seretse Khama International Airport

ICAO FBSK24.5552°S 25.9182°E1,006 m / 3,299 ftLarge airport

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Sir Seretse Khama International Airport (IATA: GBE, ICAO: FBSK) is a large airport in Gaborone, Gaborone (city), Botswana. It opened in 1984. It has one runway, 4,000 m (13,123 ft) long, concrete. In 2024 it handled 408 thousand passengers.

Timeline

2 events · 1984–1999

1984

OpenedSir Seretse Khama International Airport opens.

11 OCT 1999

Disaster1999 Air Botswana incident.1 killed

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Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap

08/26062° / 242° · LIT

LENGTH4,000 m13,123 ftWIDTH45 m148 ftSURFACEConcrete

Passengers per year

2013–2024

401K

384K

382K

403K

425K

444K

471K

117K

146K

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408K

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Routes

9 destinations · 5 countries

Year-round9

Most destinationsAir Botswana 9Airlink 2

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from GBE. From the Wikipedia article “Sir Seretse Khama International Airport” (revision of 8 Sep 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

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

Passengers408K (2024)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#1,201of 3,974 · #80 Africa · #1 BW Longest runway4,000 m13,123 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=111of 29,823 · =14 Africa · #1 BW Elevation1,006 m3,299 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft#4,763of 43,341 · #1,130 Africa · #27 BW AgeOpened 19842026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=8,725of 15,079 · =99 Africa · #2 BW Runways11 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=4,360of 29,943 · =176 Africa · =3 BW

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

3 channels

APPGABORONE APP128.200

GNDKHAMA GND121.900

TWRKHAMA TWR118.300