Nelson Airport

ICAO NZNS41.2967°S 173.2243°E5 m / 17 ftMedium airport

Nelson Airport (IATA: NSN, ICAO: NZNS) is a medium airport in Nelson, Nelson Region, New Zealand. It has 4 runways; the longest is 1,347 m (4,420 ft). In 2020 it handled 782 thousand passengers.

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap

02/20042° / 222° · LIT

LENGTH1,347 m4,420 ftWIDTH45 m148 ftSURFACEAsphalt

02L/20R042° / 222°

LENGTH731 m2,398 ftWIDTH60 m197 ftSURFACEGrass

17/35187° / 007°

LENGTH601 m1,970 ftWIDTH60 m197 ftSURFACEGrass

06/24083° / 263°

LENGTH526 m1,726 ftWIDTH24 m79 ftSURFACEGrass

Passengers per year

2011–2020

758K

776K

767K

744K

764K

865K

1.0M

1.1M

782K

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Routes

8 destinations · 1 country

Year-round8

Most destinationsOriginair 4Air New Zealand 3Golden Bay Air 2Sounds Air 2

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

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country

Passengers782K (2020)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#920of 3,974 · #27 Oceania · #5 NZ Longest runway1,347 m4,420 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=8,361of 29,823 · #589 Oceania · #26 NZ Elevation5 m17 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=41,613of 43,341 · =2,044 Oceania · #144 NZ Runways41 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=41of 29,943 · =9 Oceania · =7 NZ

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

6 channels

AFISCHRISTCHRIST CON123.700

APPAPP127.400

ATISATIS129.100

CLDCLNC DEL123.300

CTAFCTAF127.400

TWRTWR127.400