# Kitale Airport (KTL / HKKT)

**Kitale Airport** (IATA: KTL, ICAO: HKKT) is a medium airport in Kitale, Trans-Nzoia County, Kenya. It has one runway, 1,450 m (4,757 ft) long, asphalt.

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

## At a glance

- IATA / ICAO: KTL / HKKT
- Type: Medium airport
- Serves: Kitale, Trans-Nzoia County, Kenya
- Elevation: 1,850 m / 6,070 ft
- Coordinates: 0.9720, 34.9586
- Runways: 1
- Longest runway: 1,450 m / 4,757 ft
- Time zone: UTC+3 · Africa/Nairobi
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitale_Airport (9 languages)
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6417785
- Weather station: HKKT · WMO 63661
- Ident: HKKT

## Runways

| Ident | Length | Width | Surface | True headings | Lighted |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 04/22 | 1,450 m / 4,757 ft | 23 m / 75 ft | Asphalt | 040° / 220° |  |

## Routes

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

### Year-round (1)

- [WIL](https://dromopedia.com/airports/hknw.md) Nairobi Wilson Airport · Kenya · 328 km / 204 mi · Skyward Airlines

## Airlines

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

### Passenger (1)

- OW [Skyward Airlines](https://dromopedia.com/airlines/skyward-airlines) · 1

## Rankings

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

| Measure | Value | World | Region | Country |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Longest runway | 1,450 m / 4,757 ft | =7,520 of 29,858 | =693 in Africa | #13 in KE |
| Elevation | 1,850 m / 6,070 ft | =1,010 of 43,403 | #119 in Africa | #57 in KE |
| Runways | 1 | =4,364 of 29,978 | =176 in Africa | =6 in KE |

## Nearby airports

- [KE-6089](https://dromopedia.com/airports/ke-6089.md) Maji Mazuri Airport · 28 km / 18 mi
- [HKEO](https://dromopedia.com/airports/ke-0166.md) Mount Elgon Orchards Airstrip · 32 km / 20 mi
- [KE-6946](https://dromopedia.com/airports/ke-6946.md) Kapenguria (Kishaunet) Airport · 36 km / 22 mi
- [HKWE](https://dromopedia.com/airports/hkwe.md) Webuye Airport · 49 km / 30 mi
- [KE-6873](https://dromopedia.com/airports/ke-6873.md) George Smith Farm Airport · 54 km / 33 mi
- [KE-0009](https://dromopedia.com/airports/ke-0009.md) Sergoit Airport · 59 km / 37 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: “Kitale Airport”](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kitale_Airport&oldid=1363049502), 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/hkkt/data