Quelimane Airport

ICAO FQQL17.8555°S 36.8691°E11 m / 36 ftMedium airport

Quelimane Airport (IATA: UEL, ICAO: FQQL) is a medium airport in Quelimane, Zambezia Province, Mozambique. It has one runway, 1,800 m (5,905 ft) long, asphalt. In 2021 it handled 60 thousand passengers.

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap

18/36174° / 354° · LIT

LENGTH1,800 m5,905 ftWIDTH45 m148 ftSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2010–2021

58K

50K

46K

51K

72K

73K

71K

58K

61K

77K

14K

60K

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Routes

4 destinations · 1 country

Year-round4

BEWBeira International AirportMozambique · LAM Mozambique Airlines299 km186 mi TETTete AirportMozambique · LAM Mozambique Airlines395 km245 mi APLNampula AirportMozambique · LAM Mozambique Airlines400 km249 mi MPMMaputo AirportMozambique · LAM Mozambique Airlines1,000 km621 mi

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from UEL. From the Wikipedia article “Quelimane Airport” (revision of 7 Jul 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

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

Passengers60K (2021)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#2,019of 3,974 · #137 Africa · #6 MZ Longest 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 MZ Elevation11 m36 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=39,976of 43,341 · =2,998 Africa · =40 MZ Runways11 · 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

TWRTWR118.300