Maputo Airport

ICAO FQMA25.9208°S 32.5726°E44 m / 145 ftLarge airport

Maputo Airport (IATA: MPM, ICAO: FQMA) is a large airport in Maputo, Maputo (city), Mozambique. It opened in Apr 1938. It has 2 runways; the longest is 3,660 m (12,008 ft). In 2021 it handled 590 thousand passengers.

Timeline

1 event · 1938–1938

APR 1938

OpenedMaputo Airport opens.

From WikidataEvery airfield, 1903–2026

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap

05/23029° / 209° · LIT

LENGTH3,660 m12,008 ftWIDTH45 m148 ftSURFACEAsphalt

10/28086° / 266° · LIT

LENGTH1,700 m5,577 ftWIDTH45 m148 ftSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2010–2021

747K

781K

839K

916K

986K

1.0M

978K

940K

1.0M

1.1M

468K

590K

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Routes

6 destinations · 5 countries

Year-round4

JNBO.R. Tambo International AirportSouth Africa · FlySafair, Airlink433 km269 mi CPTCape Town International AirportSouth Africa · Airlink1,614 km1,003 mi DOHHamad International AirportQatar · Qatar Airways6,048 km3,758 mi LISLisbon Humberto Delgado AirportPortugal · TAP Air Portugal8,400 km5,220 mi

Cargo3

JNBO.R. Tambo International AirportSouth Africa · Astral Aviation433 km269 mi ERSEros AirportNamibia · Westair Aviation1,612 km1,002 mi NBOJomo Kenyatta International AirportKenya · Astral Aviation2,775 km1,724 mi

Most destinationsAirlink 2Astral Aviation 2FlySafair 1Qatar Airways 1TAP Air Portugal 1Westair Aviation 1

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from MPM. Blue: cargo. From the Wikipedia article “Maputo International Airport” (revision of 24 Sep 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

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

Passengers590K (2021)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#1,040of 3,974 · #67 Africa · #1 MZ Longest runway3,660 m12,008 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=303of 29,823 · #34 Africa · #1 MZ Elevation44 m145 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=35,406of 43,341 · =2,821 Africa · #27 MZ AgeOpened 19382026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=870of 15,079 · =27 Africa · #1 MZ Runways21 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=713of 29,943 · =24 Africa · =1 MZ

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

4 channels

CTRCenter127.700

APPApproach121.300

TWRTower118.100

GNDGround121.700