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Pemba Airport

ICAO FQPB12.9933°S 40.5249°E101 m / 331 ftMedium airport
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Pemba Airport (IATA: POL, ICAO: FQPB) is a medium airport in Pemba, Cabo Delgado Province, Mozambique. It has one runway, 1,800 m (5,905 ft) long, asphalt. In 2021 it handled 153 thousand passengers.

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap
17/35161° / 341° · LIT
LENGTH1,800 m5,905 ftWIDTH45 m148 ftSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2010–2021
98K
97K
121K
131K
144K
131K
110K
101K
114K
149K
113K
153K
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Routes

2 destinations · 2 countries
Most destinationsAirlink 1Astral Aviation 1

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from POL. Blue: cargo. From the Wikipedia article “Pemba Airport (Mozambique)” (revision of 7 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 runway1,800 m5,905 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=4,888of 29,823 · =528 Africa · =11 MZElevation101 m331 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=30,504of 43,341 · #2,669 Africa · #22 MZRunways11 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=4,360of 29,943 · =176 Africa · =5 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

1 channels
AFISTWR118.400