MED
Prince Mohammad Bin Abdulaziz Airport
Prince Mohammad Bin Abdulaziz Airport (IATA: MED, ICAO: OEMA) is a large airport in Medina, Al Madinah Region, Saudi Arabia. It opened in 1974. It has 2 runways; the longest is 4,335 m (14,222 ft). In 2025 it handled 11.9 million passengers.
Timeline
1 event · 1974–19741974
OpenedPrince Mohammad Bin Abdulaziz Airport opens.
From WikidataEvery airfield, 1903–2026
Runways & airfield
Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap17/35169° / 349° · LIT
LENGTH4,335 m14,222 ftWIDTH60 m197 ftSURFACEAsphalt
18/36184° / 004° · LIT
LENGTH3,060 m10,039 ftWIDTH45 m147 ftSURFACEAsphalt
Passengers per year
2014–20256.3M
6.3M
6.6M
7.8M
8.1M
8.4M
2.2M
1.8M
6.3M
9.4M
10.9M
11.9M
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Routes
35 destinations · 21 countriesYear-round28
HASHail International AirportSaudi Arabia · Nesma Airlines377 km234 miRUHKing Khalid International AirportSaudi Arabia · Flynas708 km440 miAHBAbha International AirportSaudi Arabia · Flynas766 km476 miADJMarka International (Amman Civil) AirportJordan · Flynas901 km560 miHOFAl-Ahsa International AirportSaudi Arabia · Flynas989 km615 miCAICairo International AirportEgypt · Flynas1,027 km638 miDAMDamascus International AirportSyria · Syrian Air1,032 km641 miSPXSphinx International AirportEgypt · Flynas1,066 km662 miBAHBahrain International AirportBahrain · Flynas1,114 km692 miDOHHamad International AirportQatar · Qatar Airways1,203 km748 miHBEAlexandria International AirportEgypt · Air Arabia1,213 km754 miAUHZayed International AirportUnited Arab Emirates · Etihad Airways1,511 km939 miDXBDubai International AirportUnited Arab Emirates · Flynas1,581 km982 miMCTMuscat International AirportOman · SalamAir1,888 km1,173 miSAWIstanbul Sabiha Gökçen International AirportTürkiye · Pegasus Airlines, AJet2,058 km1,279 miISTİstanbul AirportTürkiye · Turkish Airlines, Saudia2,119 km1,317 miPRNPriština Adem Jashari International AirportKosovo · Flynas2,635 km1,637 miKHIJinnah International AirportPakistan · Flynas2,768 km1,720 miBOMChhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International AirportIndia · IndiGo3,468 km2,155 miMRSMarseille Provence AirportFrance · Transavia3,769 km2,342 miLYSLyon Saint-Exupéry AirportFrance · Transavia3,881 km2,412 miALAAlmaty International AirportKazakhstan · Air Astana3,980 km2,473 miTLSToulouse-Blagnac AirportFrance · Transavia4,067 km2,527 miHYDRajiv Gandhi International AirportIndia · IndiGo4,091 km2,542 miBRUBrussels AirportBelgium · Flynas4,193 km2,605 miORYParis-Orly AirportFrance · Transavia4,212 km2,617 miDACHazrat Shahjalal International AirportBangladesh · Biman Bangladesh Airlines5,112 km3,176 miKULKuala Lumpur International AirportMalaysia · Malaysia Airlines7,060 km4,387 miSeasonal6
TZXTrabzon International AirportTürkiye · Pegasus Airlines1,828 km1,136 miSKDSamarkand International AirportUzbekistan · Uzbekistan Airways3,052 km1,896 miALAAlmaty International AirportKazakhstan · SCAT Airlines3,980 km2,473 miKNOKualanamu International AirportIndonesia · Lion Air6,733 km4,184 miYIAYogyakarta International AirportIndonesia · Garuda Indonesia8,426 km5,236 miUPGSultan Hasanuddin International AirportIndonesia · Citilink9,222 km5,730 miMost destinationsFlynas 11Transavia 4Pegasus Airlines 2IndiGo 2Nesma Airlines 1Syrian Air 1
Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from MED. Dashed: seasonal or charter. From the Wikipedia article “Prince Mohammad bin Abdulaziz International Airport” (revision of 14 Sep 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.
Records & rankings
Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · countryScale: 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
5 channelsAPPMADINAH APP124.200
ATISATIS114.100
GNDGND121.900
TWRMADINAH TWR118.300
ATISATIS126.850