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Nampula Airport

ICAO FQNP15.1056°S 39.2818°E440 m / 1,444 ftLarge airport
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Nampula Airport (IATA: APL, ICAO: FQNP) is a large airport in Nampula, Nampula Province, Mozambique. It has 2 runways; the longest is 2,000 m (6,562 ft). In 2021 it handled 153 thousand passengers.

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap
05/23046° / 226° · LIT
LENGTH2,000 m6,562 ftWIDTH45 m148 ftSURFACEAsphalt
13/31119° / 299°
LENGTH1,565 m5,135 ftWIDTH45 m148 ftSURFACEGravel

Passengers per year

2010–2021
142K
150K
174K
220K
261K
234K
210K
220K
242K
236K
119K
153K
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Routes

6 destinations · 3 countries
Most destinationsLAM Mozambique Airlines 5Kenya Airways 1Airlink 1

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from APL. From the Wikipedia article “Nampula Airport” (revision of 23 Jul 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country
Passengers153K (2021)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M=1,651of 3,974 · =110 Africa · =2 MZLongest runway2,000 m6,562 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=3,840of 29,823 · =442 Africa · =8 MZElevation440 m1,444 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=12,493of 43,341 · =1,976 Africa · #13 MZRunways21 · 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

2 channels
APPAPP128.800
TWRTWR121.300