MBI

Songwe Airport

ICAO HTGW8.9199°S 33.2740°E1,345 m / 4,412 ftMedium airport
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Songwe Airport (IATA: MBI, ICAO: HTGW) is a medium airport in Mbeya, Mbeya Region, Tanzania. It has one runway, 3,330 m (10,925 ft) long, asphalt. It is operated by Tanzania Airports Authority. In 2016 it handled 117 thousand passengers.

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap
TAA Terminal
09/27
LENGTH3,330 m10,925 ftWIDTH45 m148 ftSURFACEAsphalt

Routes

1 destinations · 1 country
250 km500 km750 km100 mi200 mi300 mi400 miDAR · Julius Nyerere International Airport · 692 km / 430 miDARMBI
Most destinationsAir Tanzania 1Precision Air 1

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from MBI. From the Wikipedia article “Songwe Airport” (revision of 7 Jul 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country
Passengers117K (2016)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#1,748of 3,974 · #116 Africa · #6 TZLongest runway3,330 m10,925 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft#696of 29,823 · #104 Africa · #2 TZElevation1,345 m4,412 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=2,787of 43,341 · =537 Africa · =42 TZRunways11 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=4,360of 29,943 · =176 Africa · =5 TZ
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