Hilo International Airport

ICAO PHTO19.7214°N 155.0454°W38 ft / 12 mMedium airport

ITO Diagram — FAA · Public domain · Commons

Hilo International Airport (IATA: ITO, ICAO: PHTO) is a medium airport in Hilo, Hawaii, United States. It opened in 1928. It has 2 runways; the longest is 9,803 ft (2,988 m). In 2025 it handled 1.4 million passengers.

Timeline

1 event · 1928–1928

1928

OpenedHilo International Airport opens.

From WikidataEvery airfield, 1903–2026

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap · FAA diagram PDF

08/26090° / 270° · LIT

LENGTH9,803 ft2,988 mWIDTH150 ft46 mSURFACEAsphalt

03/21041° / 221° · LIT

LENGTH5,601 ft1,707 mWIDTH150 ft46 mSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2014–2025

1.4M

1.3M

1.2M

465K

723K

1.3M

1.4M

141516171819202122232425

Routes

3 destinations · 1 country

Year-round3

OGGKahului International AirportUnited States · Hawaiian Airlines195 km121 mi HNLDaniel K. Inouye International AirportUnited States · Southwest Airlines, Hawaiian Airlines349 km217 mi LASHarry Reid International AirportUnited States · Southwest Airlines4,283 km2,661 mi

Most destinationsHawaiian Airlines 2Southwest Airlines 2

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from ITO. From the Wikipedia article “Hilo International Airport” (revision of 7 Aug 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

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

Passengers1.4M (2025)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#703of 3,974 · #21 Oceania · #121 US Longest runway9,803 ft2,988 m46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft#1,438of 29,823 · #30 Oceania · #223 US Elevation38 ft12 m-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=39,946of 43,341 · #1,849 Oceania · =14,907 US AgeOpened 19282026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=323of 15,079 · =10 Oceania · =57 US Runways21 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=713of 29,943 · =62 Oceania · =391 US

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

A/DAPP/DEP119.700

ATISATIS126.400

CTAFCTAF118.100

GNDGND121.900

RDOHONOLULU RDO122.600

TWRTWR118.100