Sharjah International Airport

ICAO OMSJ25.3286°N 55.5172°E34 m / 111 ftLarge airport

Sharjah International Airport (IATA: SHJ, ICAO: OMSJ) is a large airport in Sharjah, Sharjah Emirate, United Arab Emirates. It opened on 1 Jan 1977. It has one runway, 4,060 m (13,320 ft) long, asphalt. In 2021 it handled 7.0 million passengers.

Timeline

2 events · 1977–1997

01 JAN 1977

OpenedSharjah International Airport opens.

15 DEC 1997

DisasterTajikistan Airlines Flight 3183.85 killed

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Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap

12/30122° / 302° · LIT

LENGTH4,060 m13,320 ftWIDTH60 m197 ftSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2008–2021

5.3M

5.8M

6.6M

7.5M

8.5M

9.5M

12.0M

11.0M

11.4M

12.0M

13.6M

7.0M

080911121314151617181921

Routes

83 destinations · 44 countries

Year-round67

Seasonal7

NMANamangan International AirportUzbekistan · Air Arabia2,286 km1,420 mi ATZAsyut International AirportEgypt · Air Cairo2,449 km1,522 mi AERSochi International AirportRussia · Air Arabia2,460 km1,529 mi SVXKoltsovo AirportRussia · Ural Airlines3,519 km2,187 mi DMEDomodedovo International AirportRussia · Ural Airlines3,639 km2,261 mi SJJSarajevo International AirportBosnia & Herzegovina · Air Arabia3,929 km2,441 mi HKTPhuket International AirportThailand · Air Arabia4,915 km3,054 mi

Seasonal charter3

EVNZvartnots International AirportArmenia · FitsAir1,945 km1,209 mi MLEVelana International AirportMaldives · FitsAir3,037 km1,887 mi MSQMinsk National AirportBelarus · Belavia3,902 km2,425 mi

Cargo11

CAICairo International AirportEgypt · EgyptAir Cargo2,428 km1,509 mi ADDAddis Ababa Bole International AirportEthiopia · Ethiopian Airlines2,536 km1,576 mi EDLEldoret International AirportKenya · Astral Aviation3,524 km2,190 mi CGNCologne Bonn AirportGermany · UPS Airlines4,971 km3,089 mi BRUBrussels AirportBelgium · Singapore Airlines Cargo5,152 km3,201 mi AMSAmsterdam Airport SchipholNetherlands · Singapore Airlines Cargo5,172 km3,214 mi LHRLondon Heathrow AirportUnited Kingdom · Singapore Airlines Cargo5,502 km3,419 mi SINSingapore Changi AirportSingapore · Singapore Airlines Cargo5,835 km3,626 mi SZXShenzhen Bao'an International AirportChina · UPS Airlines5,882 km3,655 mi HKGHong Kong International AirportHong Kong SAR China · UPS Airlines5,903 km3,668 mi ICNIncheon International AirportSouth Korea · UPS Airlines6,711 km4,170 mi

Most destinationsAir Arabia 65UPS Airlines 4Singapore Airlines Cargo 4Ural Airlines 2FitsAir 2Qatar Airways 1

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from SHJ. Dashed: seasonal or charter. Blue: cargo. From the Wikipedia article “Sharjah International Airport” (revision of 10 Sep 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

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

Passengers7.0M (2021)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#283of 3,974 · #15 Middle East · #3 AE Longest runway4,060 m13,320 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft#88of 29,823 · #21 Middle East · #4 AE Elevation34 m111 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=36,425of 43,341 · #346 Middle East · #12 AE AgeOpened 19772026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=7,549of 15,079 · =56 Middle East · #4 AE Runways11 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=4,360of 29,943 · =72 Middle East · =5 AE

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

APP124.675

ATISATIS122.400

TWRTWR118.600

Ground to GroundGround121.875