MWZ

Mwanza International Airport

ICAO HTMW2.4466°S 32.9360°E1,147 m / 3,763 ftLarge airport
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Mwanza International Airport (IATA: MWZ, ICAO: HTMW) is a large airport in Mwanza, Mwanza Region, Tanzania. It has one runway, 3,113 m (10,212 ft) long, asphalt. It is operated by Tanzania Airports Authority. In 2016 it handled 400 thousand passengers.

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap
12/30116° / 296° · LIT
LENGTH3,113 m10,212 ftWIDTH45 m148 ftSURFACEAsphalt

Routes

15 destinations · 4 countries
2,500 km5,000 km1,000 mi2,000 mi3,000 mi4,000 miTZ-0023 · Rubondo Airport · 122 km / 76 miMUZ · Musoma Airport · 142 km / 88 miBKZ · Bukoba Airport · 175 km / 109 miSEU · Seronera Airport · 210 km / 130 miKGL · Kigali International Airport · 315 km / 196 miLKY · Lake Manyara Airport · 336 km / 209 miARK · Arusha Airport · 423 km / 263 miTKQ · Kigoma Airport · 453 km / 281 miNBO · Jomo Kenyatta International Airport · 461 km / 286 miJRO · Kilimanjaro International Airport · 472 km / 293 miNPY · Mpanda Airport · 481 km / 299 miZNZ · Abeid Amani Karume International Airport · 814 km / 506 miTZ-0048 · Mtemere Airport · 830 km / 516 miDAR · Julius Nyerere International Airport · 852 km / 529 miBRU · Brussels Airport · 6,517 km / 4,049 miBRUDARNPYJROKGLNBOTKQMUZTZ-0048LKYSEUBKZZNZMWZ
Year-round14
Rubondo AirportTanzania · Auric Air122 km76 miMUZMusoma AirportTanzania · Auric Air142 km88 miBKZBukoba AirportTanzania · Air Tanzania, Auric Air, Precision Air175 km109 miSEUSeronera AirportTanzania · Coastal Aviation210 km130 miKGLKigali International AirportRwanda · Auric Air, Coastal Aviation315 km196 miLKYLake Manyara AirportTanzania · Coastal Aviation336 km209 miARKArusha AirportTanzania · Coastal Aviation423 km263 miTKQKigoma AirportTanzania · Auric Air453 km281 miNBOJomo Kenyatta International AirportKenya · Precision Air461 km286 miJROKilimanjaro International AirportTanzania · Air Tanzania, Precision Air472 km293 miNPYMpanda AirportTanzania · Auric Air481 km299 miZNZAbeid Amani Karume International AirportTanzania · Coastal Aviation814 km506 miMtemere AirportTanzania · Coastal Aviation830 km516 miDARJulius Nyerere International AirportTanzania · Air Tanzania, Coastal Aviation, Precision Air852 km529 mi
Most destinationsCoastal Aviation 7Auric Air 6Precision Air 4Air Tanzania 3Astral Aviation 1RwandAir 1

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

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country
Passengers400K (2016)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#1,211of 3,974 · #82 Africa · #4 TZLongest runway3,113 m10,212 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft#921of 29,823 · #147 Africa · #3 TZElevation1,147 m3,763 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=3,927of 43,341 · =900 Africa · #88 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

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