Walvis Bay International Airport

ICAO FYWB22.9793°S 14.6471°E91 m / 299 ftLarge airport

Walvis Bay International Airport (IATA: WVB, ICAO: FYWB) is a large airport in Walvis Bay(Rooikop), Erongo Region, Namibia. It has one runway, 3,500 m (11,483 ft) long, asphalt. It is operated by Namibia Airports Company. In 2021 it handled 38 thousand passengers.

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap

09/27072° / 252° · LIT

LENGTH3,500 m11,483 ftWIDTH60 m196 ftSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2010–2021

72K

85K

90K

88K

85K

107K

122K

120K

119K

124K

31K

38K

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Routes

2 destinations · 1 country

Year-round2

CPTCape Town International AirportSouth Africa · Westair Aviation, Airlink1,282 km797 mi JNBO.R. Tambo International AirportSouth Africa · Airlink1,419 km882 mi

Most destinationsAirlink 2Westair Aviation 1

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from WVB. From the Wikipedia article “Walvis Bay International Airport” (revision of 26 Aug 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

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

Passengers38K (2021)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#2,194of 3,974 · #148 Africa · #3 NA Longest runway3,500 m11,483 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=489of 29,823 · =64 Africa · #3 NA Elevation91 m299 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=31,326of 43,341 · =2,687 Africa · #267 NA Runways11 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=4,360of 29,943 · =176 Africa · =11 NA

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

APPAPP122.500

TWRTWR122.500