KWI

Kuwait International Airport

ICAO OKKK29.2245°N 47.9698°E63 m / 206 ftLarge airport
On the map

Kuwait International Airport (IATA: KWI, ICAO: OKKK) is a large airport in Kuwait City, Al Farwaniyah Governorate, Kuwait. It has 3 runways; the longest is 4,580 m (15,026 ft). In 2019 it handled 15.4 million passengers.

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap
Terminal 1مبنى الشيخ سعد للطيران العاممبنى المطار المساندTerminal 5
16/34155° / 335° · LIT
LENGTH4,580 m15,026 ftWIDTH60 m197 ftSURFACEAsphalt
15L/33R155° / 335° · LIT
LENGTH3,500 m11,483 ftWIDTH45 m148 ftSURFACEAsphalt
15R/33L155° / 335° · LIT
LENGTH3,400 m11,155 ftWIDTH45 m148 ftSURFACEConcrete

Passengers per year

2007–2019
6.9M
7.2M
8.1M
8.3M
8.5M
10.2M
11.2M
11.8M
13.7M
14.8M
15.4M
0708091011121516171819

Routes

107 destinations · 48 countries
2,500 km5,000 km7,500 km10,000 km2,500 mi5,000 miAQI · Qaisumah–Hafar Al-Batin International Airport · 205 km / 127 miAWZ · Qasem Soleimani International Airport · 247 km / 153 miDMM · King Fahd International Airport · 355 km / 221 miBAH · Bahrain International Airport · 421 km / 262 miSYZ · Shiraz Shahid Dastghaib International Airport · 449 km / 279 miRUH · King Khalid International Airport · 491 km / 305 miIFN · Isfahan Shahid Beheshti International Airport · 542 km / 337 miLFM · Lamerd Airport · 551 km / 342 miDIA · Doha International Airport · 566 km / 352 miDOH · Hamad International Airport · 568 km / 353 miHAS · Hail International Airport · 646 km / 401 miLRR · Lar Airport · 650 km / 404 miIKA · Imam Khomeini International Airport · 750 km / 466 miAUH · Zayed International Airport · 849 km / 528 miDXB · Dubai International Airport · 855 km / 531 miSHJ · Sharjah International Airport · 862 km / 536 miAAN · Al Ain International Airport · 938 km / 583 miMED · Prince Mohammad Bin Abdulaziz Airport · 970 km / 603 miTIF · Taif International Airport · 1,138 km / 707 miAMM · Queen Alia International Airport · 1,180 km / 733 miDAM · Damascus International Airport · 1,183 km / 735 miADJ · Marka International (Amman Civil) Airport · 1,186 km / 737 miMCT · Muscat International Airport · 1,202 km / 747 miJED · King Abdulaziz International Airport · 1,218 km / 757 miGYD · Heydar Aliyev International Airport · 1,265 km / 786 miALP · Aleppo International Airport · 1,267 km / 787 miBEY · Beirut Rafic Hariri International Airport · 1,288 km / 800 miAHB · Abha International Airport · 1,335 km / 830 miMHD · Mashhad International Airport · 1,340 km / 833 miTBS · Tbilisi International Airport · 1,410 km / 876 miBUS · Alexander Kartveli Batumi International Airport · 1,492 km / 927 miPZU · Port Sudan New International Airport · 1,537 km / 955 miLXR · Luxor International Airport · 1,556 km / 967 miCAI · Cairo International Airport · 1,603 km / 996 miHMB · Suhaj International Airport · 1,627 km / 1,011 miSPX · Sphinx International Airport · 1,651 km / 1,026 miATZ · Asyut International Airport · 1,679 km / 1,043 miHBE · Alexandria International Airport · 1,767 km / 1,098 miADE · Aden International Airport · 1,848 km / 1,148 miKHI · Jinnah International Airport · 1,957 km / 1,216 miKBL · Kabul International Airport · 2,087 km / 1,297 miKHT · Khost International Airport · 2,120 km / 1,317 miDYU · Dushanbe International Airport · 2,179 km / 1,354 miIST · İstanbul Airport · 2,193 km / 1,363 miJMK · Mykonos Island National Airport · 2,284 km / 1,419 miISB · Islamabad International Airport · 2,402 km / 1,493 miADD · Addis Ababa Bole International Airport · 2,446 km / 1,520 miFEG · Fergana International Airport · 2,488 km / 1,546 miLHE · Allama Iqbal International Airport · 2,543 km / 1,580 miAMD · Sardar Vallabh Patel International Airport · 2,549 km / 1,584 miBOM · Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport · 2,758 km / 1,714 miDEL · Indira Gandhi International Airport · 2,829 km / 1,758 miALA · Almaty International Airport · 3,019 km / 1,876 miDME · Domodedovo International Airport · 3,020 km / 1,877 miGOX · Manohar International Airport · 3,042 km / 1,890 miSJJ · Sarajevo International Airport · 3,081 km / 1,914 miIXE · Mangaluru International Airport · 3,313 km / 2,059 miHYD · Rajiv Gandhi International Airport · 3,373 km / 2,096 miVIE · Vienna International Airport · 3,401 km / 2,113 miCNN · Kannur International Airport · 3,440 km / 2,138 miBWA · Gautam Buddha International Airport · 3,460 km / 2,150 miFCO · Rome–Fiumicino Leonardo da Vinci International Airport · 3,491 km / 2,169 miCCJ · Calicut International Airport · 3,529 km / 2,193 miBLR · Kempegowda International Airport Bengaluru · 3,544 km / 2,202 miCOK · Cochin International Airport · 3,636 km / 2,259 miKTM · Tribhuvan International Airport · 3,644 km / 2,264 miMUC · Munich Airport · 3,736 km / 2,321 miMAA · Chennai International Airport · 3,777 km / 2,347 miBGY · Il Caravaggio International Airport · 3,791 km / 2,356 miTRZ · Tiruchirappalli International Airport · 3,792 km / 2,356 miTRV · Thiruvananthapuram International Airport · 3,800 km / 2,361 miMXP · Milan Malpensa International Airport · 3,864 km / 2,401 miZRH · Zürich Airport · 3,932 km / 2,443 miFRA · Frankfurt Main Airport · 4,021 km / 2,499 miGVA · Geneva International Airport · 4,077 km / 2,533 miCMB · Bandaranaike International Colombo Airport · 4,142 km / 2,574 miDAC · Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport · 4,240 km / 2,635 miBCN · Josep Tarradellas Barcelona-El Prat Airport · 4,322 km / 2,686 miAMS · Amsterdam Airport Schiphol · 4,356 km / 2,707 miCDG · Charles de Gaulle International Airport · 4,405 km / 2,737 miCGP · Shah Amanat International Airport · 4,434 km / 2,755 miLHR · London Heathrow Airport · 4,675 km / 2,905 miMAD · Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport · 4,796 km / 2,980 miMAN · Manchester Airport · 4,842 km / 3,009 miCMN · Mohammed V International Airport · 5,237 km / 3,254 miBKK · Suvarnabhumi Airport · 5,678 km / 3,528 miCAN · Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport · 6,462 km / 4,015 miMNL · Ninoy Aquino International Airport · 7,602 km / 4,724 miJFK · John F. Kennedy International Airport · 10,202 km / 6,339 miEVN · Zvartnots International Airport · 1,258 km / 782 miSSH · Sharm El Sheikh International Airport · 1,332 km / 828 miHRG · Hurghada International Airport · 1,407 km / 874 miRZV · Rize–Artvin Airport · 1,477 km / 918 miLCA · Larnaca International Airport · 1,489 km / 925 miSLL · Salalah International Airport · 1,492 km / 927 miTZX · Trabzon International Airport · 1,504 km / 935 miAER · Sochi International Airport · 1,735 km / 1,078 miAYT · Antalya International Airport · 1,809 km / 1,124 miBJV · Milas Bodrum International Airport · 2,083 km / 1,294 miTAS · Tashkent International Airport · 2,342 km / 1,455 miTIA · Tirana International Airport Mother Teresa · 2,881 km / 1,790 miBUD · Budapest Liszt Ferenc International Airport · 3,188 km / 1,981 miKRK · Kraków John Paul II International Airport · 3,309 km / 2,056 miPRG · Václav Havel Airport Prague · 3,651 km / 2,269 miNCE · Nice-Côte d'Azur Airport · 3,934 km / 2,444 miAGP · Málaga-Costa del Sol Airport · 4,905 km / 3,048 miLUX · Luxembourg-Findel International Airport · 4,167 km / 2,589 miJFKMNLCANBKKCMNMANMADCGPCDGCMBNCEMAABWAVIEDMEALATIABOMLHEADDJMKDYUKHIHBEAERHMBPZUSLLGYDMCTIKAHASSYZAGPLHRBCNGVAFRATRZFCOHYDIXESJJGOXDELAMDFEGISTKHTADEAYTTZXLCAMHDAHBADJMEDDOHIFNRUHAQIAMSDACZRHMXPTRVMUCPRGCOKBLRKRKBUDISBTASKBLTBSSSHBEYALPEVNJEDAANLRRDMMAWZLUXKTMCCJCNNBJVATZSPXLXRBUSHRGTIFSHJLFMKWI
Year-round89
AQIQaisumah–Hafar Al-Batin International AirportSaudi Arabia · Jazeera Airways205 km127 miAWZQasem Soleimani International AirportIran · ATA Airlines (Iran), Iran Air247 km153 miDMMKing Fahd International AirportSaudi Arabia · Kuwait Airways355 km221 miBAHBahrain International AirportBahrain · Jazeera Airways, Gulf Air, Kuwait Airways421 km262 miSYZShiraz Shahid Dastghaib International AirportIran · Iran Air449 km279 miRUHKing Khalid International AirportSaudi Arabia · Jazeera Airways, Saudia491 km305 miIFNIsfahan Shahid Beheshti International AirportIran · Iran Air542 km337 miLFMLamerd AirportIran · ATA Airlines (Iran)551 km342 miDIADoha International AirportQatar · Jazeera Airways566 km352 miDOHHamad International AirportQatar · Qatar Airways, Kuwait Airways568 km353 miHASHail International AirportSaudi Arabia · Jazeera Airways646 km401 miLRRLar AirportIran · Iran Air650 km404 miIKAImam Khomeini International AirportIran · Jazeera Airways, ATA Airlines (Iran)750 km466 miAUHZayed International AirportUnited Arab Emirates · Jazeera Airways, Etihad Airways, Air Arabia849 km528 miDXBDubai International AirportUnited Arab Emirates · flydubai, Jazeera Airways, Emirates +1855 km531 miSHJSharjah International AirportUnited Arab Emirates · Air Arabia862 km536 miAANAl Ain International AirportUnited Arab Emirates · Jazeera Airways938 km583 miMEDPrince Mohammad Bin Abdulaziz AirportSaudi Arabia · Jazeera Airways, Kuwait Airways970 km603 miTIFTaif International AirportSaudi Arabia · Jazeera Airways1,138 km707 miAMMQueen Alia International AirportJordan · Jazeera Airways, Royal Jordanian, Kuwait Airways1,180 km733 miDAMDamascus International AirportSyria · Jazeera Airways, Fly Cham, Syrian Air1,183 km735 miADJMarka International (Amman Civil) AirportJordan · Jazeera Airways1,186 km737 miMCTMuscat International AirportOman · Oman Air1,202 km747 miJEDKing Abdulaziz International AirportSaudi Arabia · Jazeera Airways, Kuwait Airways1,218 km757 miGYDHeydar Aliyev International AirportAzerbaijan · Jazeera Airways1,265 km786 miALPAleppo International AirportSyria · Jazeera Airways, Syrian Air1,267 km787 miBEYBeirut Rafic Hariri International AirportLebanon · Jazeera Airways, Middle East Airlines - Air Liban, Kuwait Airways1,288 km800 miAHBAbha International AirportSaudi Arabia · Jazeera Airways, Flynas1,335 km830 miMHDMashhad International AirportIran · Sepehran Airlines, Varesh Airlines, ATA Airlines (Iran) +21,340 km833 miTBSTbilisi International AirportGeorgia · Jazeera Airways, Kuwait Airways1,410 km876 miBUSAlexander Kartveli Batumi International AirportGeorgia · Jazeera Airways1,492 km927 miPZUPort Sudan New International AirportSudan · Tarco Aviation1,537 km955 miLXRLuxor International AirportEgypt · Jazeera Airways1,556 km967 miCAICairo International AirportEgypt · Jazeera Airways, Air Cairo, Nesma Airlines +41,603 km996 miHMBSuhaj International AirportEgypt · Jazeera Airways, Air Cairo, Kuwait Airways1,627 km1,011 miSPXSphinx International AirportEgypt · Jazeera Airways, Kuwait Airways1,651 km1,026 miATZAsyut International AirportEgypt · Jazeera Airways, Air Cairo1,679 km1,043 miHBEAlexandria International AirportEgypt · Jazeera Airways, Air Cairo, EgyptAir +11,767 km1,098 miADEAden International AirportYemen · Yemenia1,848 km1,148 miKHIJinnah International AirportPakistan · Jazeera Airways1,957 km1,216 miKBLKabul International AirportAfghanistan · Kam Air2,087 km1,297 miKHTKhost International AirportAfghanistan · Kam Air2,120 km1,317 miDYUDushanbe International AirportTajikistan · Jazeera Airways2,179 km1,354 miISTİstanbul AirportTürkiye · Jazeera Airways, Turkish Airlines, Kuwait Airways2,193 km1,363 miJMKMykonos Island National AirportGreece · Kuwait Airways2,284 km1,419 miISBIslamabad International AirportPakistan · Jazeera Airways, Kuwait Airways2,402 km1,493 miADDAddis Ababa Bole International AirportEthiopia · Jazeera Airways, Ethiopian Airlines2,446 km1,520 miFEGFergana International AirportUzbekistan · Jazeera Airways2,488 km1,546 miLHEAllama Iqbal International AirportPakistan · Jazeera Airways, Kuwait Airways2,543 km1,580 miAMDSardar Vallabh Patel International AirportIndia · Jazeera Airways, Kuwait Airways2,549 km1,584 miBOMChhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International AirportIndia · Jazeera Airways, Akasa Air, Kuwait Airways2,758 km1,714 miDELIndira Gandhi International AirportIndia · Jazeera Airways, Kuwait Airways2,829 km1,758 miALAAlmaty International AirportKazakhstan · Jazeera Airways3,019 km1,876 miDMEDomodedovo International AirportRussia · Jazeera Airways, Kuwait Airways3,020 km1,877 miGOXManohar International AirportIndia · Air India Express3,042 km1,890 miSJJSarajevo International AirportBosnia & Herzegovina · Jazeera Airways3,081 km1,914 miIXEMangaluru International AirportIndia · Air India Express3,313 km2,059 miHYDRajiv Gandhi International AirportIndia · IndiGo, Jazeera Airways, Kuwait Airways3,373 km2,096 miVIEVienna International AirportAustria · Kuwait Airways3,401 km2,113 miCNNKannur International AirportIndia · Air India Express3,440 km2,138 miBWAGautam Buddha International AirportNepal · Jazeera Airways3,460 km2,150 miFCORome–Fiumicino Leonardo da Vinci International AirportItaly · Kuwait Airways3,491 km2,169 miCCJCalicut International AirportIndia · Air India Express3,529 km2,193 miBLRKempegowda International Airport BengaluruIndia · Jazeera Airways, Air India Express, Kuwait Airways3,544 km2,202 miCOKCochin International AirportIndia · Jazeera Airways, Air India Express, Kuwait Airways3,636 km2,259 miKTMTribhuvan International AirportNepal · Jazeera Airways, Himalaya Airlines, Kuwait Airways3,644 km2,264 miMUCMunich AirportGermany · Kuwait Airways3,736 km2,321 miMAAChennai International AirportIndia · Jazeera Airways, Air India Express, Kuwait Airways3,777 km2,347 miBGYIl Caravaggio International AirportItaly · Jazeera Airways3,791 km2,356 miTRZTiruchirappalli International AirportIndia · Air India Express3,792 km2,356 miTRVThiruvananthapuram International AirportIndia · Jazeera Airways, Kuwait Airways3,800 km2,361 miMXPMilan Malpensa International AirportItaly · Kuwait Airways3,864 km2,401 miZRHZürich AirportSwitzerland · Kuwait Airways3,932 km2,443 miFRAFrankfurt Main AirportGermany · Kuwait Airways4,021 km2,499 miGVAGeneva International AirportSwitzerland · Kuwait Airways4,077 km2,533 miCMBBandaranaike International Colombo AirportSri Lanka · Jazeera Airways, SriLankan Airlines, Kuwait Airways4,142 km2,574 miDACHazrat Shahjalal International AirportBangladesh · Jazeera Airways, Kuwait Airways, Biman Bangladesh Airlines4,240 km2,635 miBCNJosep Tarradellas Barcelona-El Prat AirportSpain · Kuwait Airways4,322 km2,686 miAMSAmsterdam Airport SchipholNetherlands · Kuwait Airways4,356 km2,707 miCDGCharles de Gaulle International AirportFrance · Kuwait Airways4,405 km2,737 miCGPShah Amanat International AirportBangladesh · Jazeera Airways4,434 km2,755 miLHRLondon Heathrow AirportUnited Kingdom · Kuwait Airways4,675 km2,905 miMADAdolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas AirportSpain · Kuwait Airways4,796 km2,980 miMANManchester AirportUnited Kingdom · Kuwait Airways4,842 km3,009 miCMNMohammed V International AirportMorocco · Kuwait Airways5,237 km3,254 miBKKSuvarnabhumi AirportThailand · Kuwait Airways5,678 km3,528 miCANGuangzhou Baiyun International AirportChina · Kuwait Airways6,462 km4,015 miMNLNinoy Aquino International AirportPhilippines · Kuwait Airways7,602 km4,724 miJFKJohn F. Kennedy International AirportUnited States · Kuwait Airways10,202 km6,339 mi
Seasonal22
RUHKing Khalid International AirportSaudi Arabia · Kuwait Airways491 km305 miTIFTaif International AirportSaudi Arabia · Kuwait Airways1,138 km707 miEVNZvartnots International AirportArmenia · Jazeera Airways1,258 km782 miSSHSharm El Sheikh International AirportEgypt · Jazeera Airways, Kuwait Airways1,332 km828 miHRGHurghada International AirportEgypt · Jazeera Airways1,407 km874 miRZVRize–Artvin AirportTürkiye · Jazeera Airways1,477 km918 miLCALarnaca International AirportCyprus · Jazeera Airways1,489 km925 miSLLSalalah International AirportOman · Jazeera Airways, Kuwait Airways1,492 km927 miBUSAlexander Kartveli Batumi International AirportGeorgia · Jazeera Airways1,492 km927 miTZXTrabzon International AirportTürkiye · Jazeera Airways, Pegasus Airlines, Kuwait Airways1,504 km935 miLXRLuxor International AirportEgypt · Air Cairo, Kuwait Airways1,556 km967 miAERSochi International AirportRussia · Jazeera Airways1,735 km1,078 miAYTAntalya International AirportTürkiye · Jazeera Airways, Kuwait Airways1,809 km1,124 miBJVMilas Bodrum International AirportTürkiye · Kuwait Airways2,083 km1,294 miTASTashkent International AirportUzbekistan · Jazeera Airways2,342 km1,455 miTIATirana International Airport Mother TeresaAlbania · Jazeera Airways2,881 km1,790 miSJJSarajevo International AirportBosnia & Herzegovina · Kuwait Airways3,081 km1,914 miBUDBudapest Liszt Ferenc International AirportHungary · Jazeera Airways3,188 km1,981 miKRKKraków John Paul II International AirportPoland · Jazeera Airways3,309 km2,056 miPRGVáclav Havel Airport PragueCzechia · Jazeera Airways3,651 km2,269 miNCENice-Côte d'Azur AirportFrance · Kuwait Airways3,934 km2,444 miAGPMálaga-Costa del Sol AirportSpain · Kuwait Airways4,905 km3,048 mi
Most destinationsJazeera Airways 65Kuwait Airways 59Air India Express 8Iran Air 5Air Cairo 5ATA Airlines (Iran) 4

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from KWI. Dashed: seasonal or charter. Blue: cargo. From the Wikipedia article “Kuwait International Airport” (revision of 20 Sep 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country
Passengers15.4M (2019)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#146of 3,974 · #6 Middle EastLongest runway4,580 m15,026 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft#14of 29,823 · #3 Middle East · #1 KWElevation63 m206 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=33,716of 43,341 · #313 Middle East · #5 KWRunways31 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=151of 29,943 · =2 Middle East · #1 KW
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
APPAPP121.300
ATISATIS126.225
GNDGND121.700
TWRTWR118.300