VFA

Victoria Falls International Airport

ICAO FVFA18.0974°S 25.8369°E1,064 m / 3,490 ftLarge airport
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Victoria Falls International Airport (IATA: VFA, ICAO: FVFA) is a large airport in Victoria Falls, Matabeleland North Province, Zimbabwe. It has one runway, 4,000 m (13,123 ft) long, asphalt. It is operated by Civil Aviation Authority of Zimbabwe.

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap
12/30110° / 290° · LIT
LENGTH4,000 m13,123 ftWIDTH45 m148 ftSURFACEAsphalt

Routes

13 destinations · 8 countries
2,500 km5,000 km7,500 km2,500 mi5,000 miHWN · Hwange National Park Airport · 138 km / 86 miMUB · Maun International Airport · 328 km / 204 miBUQ · Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo International Airport · 362 km / 225 miKAB · Kariba Airport · 368 km / 229 miHRE · Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport · 556 km / 345 miJNB · O.R. Tambo International Airport · 928 km / 577 miMQP · Kruger Mpumalanga International Airport · 976 km / 606 miWDH · Hosea Kutako International Airport · 999 km / 621 miCPT · Cape Town International Airport · 1,906 km / 1,184 miDAR · Julius Nyerere International Airport · 1,912 km / 1,188 miNBO · Jomo Kenyatta International Airport · 2,224 km / 1,382 miADD · Addis Ababa Bole International Airport · 3,330 km / 2,069 miFRA · Frankfurt Main Airport · 7,763 km / 4,824 miFRAADDNBODARCPTWDHMQPHREBUQMUBJNBKABHWNVFA
Year-round12
HWNHwange National Park AirportZimbabwe · Fastjet Zimbabwe138 km86 miMUBMaun International AirportBotswana · Fastjet Zimbabwe328 km204 miBUQJoshua Mqabuko Nkomo International AirportZimbabwe · Fastjet Zimbabwe, Air Zimbabwe362 km225 miKABKariba AirportZimbabwe · Fastjet Zimbabwe368 km229 miHRERobert Gabriel Mugabe International AirportZimbabwe · Fastjet Zimbabwe, Air Zimbabwe556 km345 miJNBO.R. Tambo International AirportSouth Africa · FlySafair, Fastjet Zimbabwe, CemAir +1928 km577 miMQPKruger Mpumalanga International AirportSouth Africa · Fastjet Zimbabwe, Airlink976 km606 miWDHHosea Kutako International AirportNamibia · Westair Aviation999 km621 miCPTCape Town International AirportSouth Africa · Airlink, Kenya Airways1,906 km1,184 miDARJulius Nyerere International AirportTanzania · Air Tanzania1,912 km1,188 miNBOJomo Kenyatta International AirportKenya · Kenya Airways2,224 km1,382 miADDAddis Ababa Bole International AirportEthiopia · Ethiopian Airlines3,330 km2,069 mi
Most destinationsFastjet Zimbabwe 7Airlink 3Air Zimbabwe 2Kenya Airways 2Discover Airlines 2FlySafair 1

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from VFA. Dashed: seasonal or charter. From the Wikipedia article “Victoria Falls Airport” (revision of 7 Jul 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country
Longest runway4,000 m13,123 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=111of 29,823 · =14 Africa · #3 ZWElevation1,064 m3,490 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=4,385of 43,341 · #1,045 Africa · #46 ZWRunways11 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=4,360of 29,943 · =176 Africa · =5 ZW
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
APPFALLS APP121.100
TWRFALLS TWR121.100