# Hawassa International Airport (AWA / HALA)

**Hawassa International Airport** (IATA: AWA, ICAO: HALA) is a large airport in Hawassa, Sidama Region, Ethiopia. It has one runway, 3,000 m (9,843 ft) long, asphalt.

Web page: https://dromopedia.com/airports/hala

## At a glance

- IATA / ICAO: AWA / HALA
- Type: Large airport
- Serves: Hawassa, Sidama Region, Ethiopia
- Elevation: 1,661 m / 5,450 ft
- Coordinates: 7.1006, 38.3965
- Runways: 1
- Longest runway: 3,000 m / 9,843 ft
- Time zone: UTC+3 · Africa/Addis_Ababa
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawassa_Airport (9 languages)
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q657369
- Weather station: HALA · WMO 63460
- Ident: HALA

## Runways

| Ident | Length | Width | Surface | True headings | Lighted |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 01/19 | 3,000 m / 9,843 ft | 45 m / 148 ft | Asphalt |  |  |

## Routes

1 destination in 1 country. From the airport's Wikipedia article.

### Year-round (1)

- [ADD](https://dromopedia.com/airports/haab.md) Addis Ababa Bole International Airport · Ethiopia · 213 km / 132 mi · Ethiopian Airlines

## Airlines

The figure is how many destinations each airline flies from AWA, as the routes above have them. Hubs from Wikidata.

### Passenger (1)

- ET [Ethiopian Airlines](https://dromopedia.com/airlines/ethiopian-airlines) · 1

## Rankings

Ranked among 48,075 open airports; = marks a shared place.

| Measure | Value | World | Region | Country |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Longest runway | 3,000 m / 9,843 ft | =1,196 of 29,858 | =185 in Africa | #4 in ET |
| Elevation | 1,661 m / 5,450 ft | =1,513 of 43,403 | =226 in Africa | #28 in ET |
| Runways | 1 | =4,364 of 29,978 | =176 in Africa | =3 in ET |

## Nearby airports

- [HADO](https://dromopedia.com/airports/hado.md) Dodola Airport · 73 km / 45 mi
- [SXU](https://dromopedia.com/airports/hasd.md) Soddu Airport · 85 km / 53 mi
- [HAAD](https://dromopedia.com/airports/haad.md) Adaba Airport · 97 km / 60 mi
- [AMH](https://dromopedia.com/airports/haam.md) Arba Minch Airport · 148 km / 92 mi

## Sources

- [NOAA Aviation Weather Center](https://aviationweather.gov/data/api/): Weather data: NOAA Aviation Weather Center (Public Domain (US Government))
- [OurAirports](https://ourairports.com/data/): Airport data from OurAirports (Public Domain)
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org): Structured data from Wikidata (CC0 1.0)
- [Wikipedia: “Hawassa Airport”](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hawassa_Airport&oldid=1363042041), revision of 7 Jul 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- [timezone-boundary-builder](https://github.com/evansiroky/timezone-boundary-builder): Time zone boundaries © OpenStreetMap contributors, timezone-boundary-builder (ODbL 1.0)
- Every figure with its source: https://dromopedia.com/airports/hala/data