# Songwe Airport (MBI / HTGW)

**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.

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

## At a glance

- IATA / ICAO: MBI / HTGW
- Type: Medium airport
- Operator: Tanzania Airports Authority
- Serves: Mbeya, Mbeya Region, Tanzania
- Elevation: 1,345 m / 4,412 ft
- Coordinates: -8.9199, 33.2740
- Runways: 1
- Longest runway: 3,330 m / 10,925 ft
- Passengers: 117,177 (2016)
- Time zone: UTC+3 · Africa/Dar_es_Salaam
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Songwe_Airport (8 languages)
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7561639
- Weather station: HTGW
- Ident: HTGW

## Runways

| Ident | Length | Width | Surface | True headings | Lighted |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 09/27 | 3,330 m / 10,925 ft | 45 m / 148 ft | Asphalt |  |  |

## Routes

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

### Year-round (1)

- [DAR](https://dromopedia.com/airports/htda.md) Julius Nyerere International Airport · Tanzania · 692 km / 430 mi · Air Tanzania, Precision Air

## Airlines

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

### Passenger (2)

- TC [Air Tanzania](https://dromopedia.com/airlines/air-tanzania) · 1
- PW [Precision Air](https://dromopedia.com/airlines/precision-air) · 1

## Rankings

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

| Measure | Value | World | Region | Country |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Passengers | 117K (2016) | #1,748 of 3,974 | #116 in Africa | #6 in TZ |
| Longest runway | 3,330 m / 10,925 ft | #695 of 29,858 | #104 in Africa | #2 in TZ |
| Elevation | 1,345 m / 4,412 ft | =2,792 of 43,403 | =537 in Africa | =42 in TZ |
| Runways | 1 | =4,364 of 29,978 | =176 in Africa | =5 in TZ |

## Nearby airports

- [HTMB](https://dromopedia.com/airports/htmb.md) Mbeya Airport · 21 km / 13 mi
- [HTCH](https://dromopedia.com/airports/htch.md) Chunya Airport · 44 km / 27 mi
- [FWCT](https://dromopedia.com/airports/fwct.md) Chitipa Airport · 87 km / 54 mi
- [TZ-0095](https://dromopedia.com/airports/tz-0095.md) Mbarali Airport · 114 km / 71 mi
- [TZ-0082](https://dromopedia.com/airports/tz-0082.md) Lualanje Airport · 116 km / 72 mi
- [KGJ](https://dromopedia.com/airports/fwka.md) Karonga Airport · 134 km / 83 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: “Songwe Airport”](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Songwe_Airport&oldid=1363079689), 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/htgw/data