KWZ

Kolwezi Airport

ICAO FZQM10.7659°S 25.5057°E1,526 m / 5,007 ftMedium airport
On the map

Kolwezi Airport (IATA: KWZ, ICAO: FZQM) is a medium airport in Kolwezi, Lualaba Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo. It has one runway, 1,750 m (5,741 ft) long, asphalt.

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap
Nouvel aéroport de Kolwezi
11/29101° / 281°
LENGTH1,750 m5,741 ftWIDTH30 m98 ftSURFACEAsphalt

Routes

2 destinations · 1 country
Most destinationsCompagnie Africaine d'Aviation 1Air Congo 1

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from KWZ. From the Wikipedia article “Kolwezi International Airport” (revision of 17 Jul 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country
Longest runway1,750 m5,741 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=5,075of 29,823 · =551 Africa · =22 CDElevation1,526 m5,007 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=2,011of 43,341 · #331 Africa · #12 CDRunways11 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=4,360of 29,943 · =176 Africa · =2 CD
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
A/GA/G VOICE RDO118.700