MYW

Mtwara Airport

ICAO HTMT10.3362°S 40.1820°E113 m / 371 ftMedium airport
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Mtwara Airport (IATA: MYW, ICAO: HTMT) is a medium airport in Mtwara, Mtwara Region, Tanzania. It has 2 runways; the longest is 2,259 m (7,410 ft). It is operated by Tanzania Airports Authority. In 2016 it handled 23 thousand passengers.

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap
01/19004° / 184°
LENGTH2,259 m7,410 ftWIDTH30 m98 ftSURFACEAsphalt
08/26080° / 260°
LENGTH1,163 m3,815 ftWIDTH30 m98 ftSURFACEGrass

Routes

1 destinations · 1 country
100 km200 km300 km400 km100 mi200 miDAR · Julius Nyerere International Airport · 400 km / 249 miDARMYW
Most destinationsAir Tanzania 1Precision Air 1

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

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country
Passengers23K (2016)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#2,393of 3,974 · #163 Africa · #12 TZLongest runway2,259 m7,410 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft#3,165of 29,823 · #376 Africa · #7 TZElevation113 m371 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=29,616of 43,341 · =2,652 Africa · #154 TZRunways21 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=713of 29,943 · =24 Africa · =2 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

1 channels
TWRTWR118.100