JRO

Kilimanjaro International Airport

ICAO HTKJ3.4270°S 37.0735°E894 m / 2,932 ftLarge airport
On the map

Kilimanjaro International Airport (IATA: JRO, ICAO: HTKJ) is a large airport in Arusha, Arusha Region, Tanzania. It opened in Dec 1971. It has one runway, 3,600 m (11,811 ft) long, asphalt. In 2012 it handled 665 thousand passengers.

Timeline

1 event · 1971–1971
DEC 1971
OpenedKilimanjaro International Airport opens.
From WikidataEvery airfield, 1903–2026

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap
09/27087° / 267° · LIT
LENGTH3,600 m11,811 ftWIDTH45 m148 ftSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2011–2012
642K
665K
1112

Routes

12 destinations · 12 countries
Most destinationsAir Tanzania 2Kenya Airways 1Uganda Airlines 1Ethiopian Airlines 1Qatar Airways 1flydubai 1

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from JRO. Dashed: seasonal or charter. From the Wikipedia article “Kilimanjaro International Airport” (revision of 27 Sep 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country
Passengers665K (2012)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#986of 3,974 · #61 Africa · #3 TZLongest runway3,600 m11,811 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=383of 29,823 · =45 Africa · #1 TZElevation894 m2,932 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=5,664of 43,341 · =1,333 Africa · #119 TZAgeOpened 19712026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=6,390of 15,079 · #81 Africa · #2 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

Radio frequencies

4 channels
APPAPP120.100
ATISATIS126.600
TWRTWR120.100
APP119.900