# Songea Airport (SGX / HTSO)

**Songea Airport** (IATA: SGX, ICAO: HTSO) is a small airport in Songea, Ruvuma Region, Tanzania. It is operated by Tanzania Airports Authority. In 2016 it handled 4 thousand passengers.

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

## At a glance

- IATA / ICAO: SGX / HTSO
- Type: Small airport
- Operator: Tanzania Airports Authority
- Serves: Songea, Ruvuma Region, Tanzania
- Elevation: 1,050 m / 3,445 ft
- Coordinates: -10.6830, 35.5830
- Passengers: 3,524 (2016)
- Time zone: UTC+3 · Africa/Dar_es_Salaam
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Songea_Airport (10 languages)
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7220710
- Weather station: HTSO · WMO 63962
- Ident: HTSO

## Routes

2 destinations in 1 country. From the airport's Wikipedia article.

### Year-round (2)

- [MYW](https://dromopedia.com/airports/htmt.md) Mtwara Airport · Tanzania · 504 km / 313 mi · Air Tanzania
- [DAR](https://dromopedia.com/airports/htda.md) Julius Nyerere International Airport · Tanzania · 581 km / 361 mi · Air Tanzania

## Airlines

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

### Passenger (1)

- TC [Air Tanzania](https://dromopedia.com/airlines/air-tanzania) · 2

## Rankings

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

| Measure | Value | World | Region | Country |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Passengers | 4K (2016) | #3,013 of 3,974 | #196 in Africa | #19 in TZ |
| Elevation | 1,050 m / 3,445 ft | =4,472 of 43,403 | =1,065 in Africa | =104 in TZ |

## Nearby airports

- [TZ-0003](https://dromopedia.com/airports/tz-0003.md) Mbinga Airport · 70 km / 43 mi
- [TZ-0014](https://dromopedia.com/airports/tz-0014.md) Mbamba Bay Airport · 106 km / 66 mi
- [HTLL](https://dromopedia.com/airports/htll.md) Liuli Airport · 112 km / 70 mi
- [FWCB](https://dromopedia.com/airports/fwcb.md) Chilumba Private Airport · 149 km / 92 mi
- [TZ-0093](https://dromopedia.com/airports/tz-0093.md) Matemanga Airport · 150 km / 93 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: “Songea Airport”](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Songea_Airport&oldid=1363079673), 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/htso/data