Kigali International Airport

ICAO HRYR1.9686°S 30.1395°E1,481 m / 4,859 ftLarge airport

Kigali International Airport (IATA: KGL, ICAO: HRYR) is a large airport in Kigali, City of Kigali, Rwanda. It opened in 1928. It has one runway, 3,500 m (11,483 ft) long, asphalt. It is operated by Rwanda Civil Aviation Authority. In 2019 it handled 1.1 million passengers.

Timeline

2 events · 1928–2009

1928

OpenedKigali International Airport opens.

12 NOV 2009

DisasterRwandAir Flight 205.1 killed

From WikidataEvery airfield, 1903–2026

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap

10/28100° / 280° · LIT

LENGTH3,500 m11,483 ftWIDTH45 m148 ftSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2004–2019

135K

270K

377K

489K

569K

581K

710K

972K

1.1M

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Routes

12 destinations · 10 countries

Year-round7

NBOJomo Kenyatta International AirportKenya · Kenya Airways758 km471 mi MBAMoi International AirportKenya · RwandAir1,075 km668 mi ZNZAbeid Amani Karume International AirportTanzania · RwandAir1,113 km692 mi CAICairo International AirportEgypt · EgyptAir3,570 km2,218 mi DOHHamad International AirportQatar · Qatar Airways, RwandAir3,811 km2,368 mi MCTMuscat International AirportOman · SalamAir4,165 km2,588 mi CDGCharles de Gaulle International AirportFrance · RwandAir6,258 km3,889 mi

Cargo6

NBOJomo Kenyatta International AirportKenya · Qatar Airways, Astral Aviation, RwandAir758 km471 mi ADDAddis Ababa Bole International AirportEthiopia · Ethiopian Airlines1,550 km963 mi JNBO.R. Tambo International AirportSouth Africa · Qatar Airways2,695 km1,675 mi KANMallam Aminu Kano International AirportNigeria · Qatar Airways2,852 km1,772 mi LOSMurtala Muhammed International AirportNigeria · Qatar Airways3,125 km1,942 mi SHJSharjah International AirportUnited Arab Emirates · RwandAir4,084 km2,538 mi

Most destinationsRwandAir 6Qatar Airways 5Kenya Airways 1EgyptAir 1SalamAir 1Astral Aviation 1

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from KGL. Blue: cargo. From the Wikipedia article “Kigali International Airport” (revision of 18 Sep 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

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

Passengers1.1M (2019)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#769of 3,974 · #44 Africa 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 · #1 RW Elevation1,481 m4,859 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=2,212of 43,341 · =379 Africa · #6 RW AgeOpened 19282026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=323of 15,079 · =7 Africa · =1 RW Runways11 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=4,360of 29,943 · =176 Africa · =1 RW

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

4 channels

APPAPP124.300

GNDGND121.700

TWRTWR118.300

ATIS128.700