Preguiça Airport

ICAO GVSN16.5889°N 24.2841°W204 m / 669 ftMedium airport

Preguiça Airport (IATA: SNE, ICAO: GVSN) is a medium airport in Preguiça, Barlavento Islands, Cape Verde. It has one runway, 1,400 m (4,593 ft) long, asphalt. It is operated by Aeroportos e Segurança Aérea. In 2024 it handled 15 thousand passengers.

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap

01/19356° / 176°

LENGTH1,400 m4,593 ftWIDTH30 m98 ftSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2013–2024

23K

22K

26K

27K

24K

22K

14K

15K

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Routes

3 destinations · 1 country

Year-round3

VXECesaria Evora International AirportCape Verde · Cabo Verde Airlines87 km54 mi SIDAmílcar Cabral International AirportCape Verde · Cabo Verde Airlines143 km89 mi RAINelson Mandela International AirportCape Verde · Cabo Verde Airlines202 km126 mi

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from SNE. From the Wikipedia article “São Nicolau Airport” (revision of 8 Jul 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

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

Passengers15K (2024)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#2,531of 3,974 · #171 Africa · #6 CV Longest runway1,400 m4,593 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=7,794of 29,823 · =708 Africa · #5 CV Elevation204 m669 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=24,000of 43,341 · #2,517 Africa · #1 CV Runways11 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=4,360of 29,943 · =176 Africa · =1 CV

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