ROT

Rotorua Regional Airport

ICAO NZRO38.1092°S 176.3170°E285 m / 935 ftMedium airport
On the map

Rotorua Regional Airport (IATA: ROT, ICAO: NZRO) is a medium airport in Rotorua, Bay of Plenty Region, New Zealand. It has 3 runways; the longest is 1,622 m (5,321 ft). In 2019 it handled 265 thousand passengers.

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap
Departures TerminalArrivals Terminal
18R/36L205° / 025° · LIT
LENGTH1,622 m5,321 ftWIDTH30 m98 ftSURFACEAsphalt
18L/36R206° / 026°
LENGTH833 m2,732 ftWIDTH50 m164 ftSURFACEGrass
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Passengers per year

2009–2019
1K
22K
228K
227K
218K
215K
222K
223K
241K
247K
265K
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Routes

3 destinations · 1 country

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from ROT. From the Wikipedia article “Rotorua Airport” (revision of 15 Sep 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country
Passengers265K (2019)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#1,400of 3,974 · #51 Oceania · #14 NZLongest runway1,622 m5,321 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=5,706of 29,823 · #277 Oceania · #13 NZElevation285 m935 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=18,787of 43,341 · =620 Oceania · #30 NZRunways31 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=151of 29,943 · =22 Oceania · =13 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

4 channels
APPCHRISTCHURCH APP119.500
ATISATIS128.800
CTAFCTAF121.200
TWRTWR121.200