São Tomé International Airport

ICAO FPST0.3782°N 6.7122°E10 m / 33 ftLarge airport

São Tomé International Airport (IATA: TMS, ICAO: FPST) is a large airport in São Tomé, Água Grande District, São Tomé and Principe. It has one runway, 2,220 m (7,283 ft) long, asphalt. In 2005 it handled 11 thousand passengers.

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap

11/29103° / 283°

LENGTH2,220 m7,283 ftWIDTH45 m148 ftSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

1994–2005

10K

11K

9495969798990001020305

Routes

6 destinations · 6 countries

Year-round6

PCPPrincipe AirportSão Tomé & Príncipe · Afrijet Business Service, STP Airways162 km101 mi LBVLibreville Leon M'ba International AirportGabon · Afrijet Business Service, Asky Airlines300 km186 mi LFWLomé–Tokoin International AirportTogo · Asky Airlines884 km549 mi ACCKotoka International AirportGhana · TAP Air Portugal960 km597 mi NBJDr. Antonio Agostinho Neto International AirportAngola · TAAG Angola Airlines1,290 km802 mi LISLisbon Humberto Delgado AirportPortugal · STP Airways, TAP Air Portugal4,566 km2,837 mi

Most destinationsAfrijet Business Service 2STP Airways 2Asky Airlines 2TAP Air Portugal 2TAAG Angola Airlines 1

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from TMS. From the Wikipedia article “São Tomé International Airport” (revision of 26 Aug 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

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

Passengers11K (2005)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#2,669of 3,974 · #183 Africa Longest runway2,220 m7,283 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=3,237of 29,823 · =381 Africa · #1 ST Elevation10 m33 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=40,160of 43,341 · =3,011 Africa · #2 ST Runways11 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=4,360of 29,943 · =176 Africa · =1 ST

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

1 channels

TWRTWR118.900