NQZ
Nursultan Nazarbayev International Airport
Nursultan Nazarbayev International Airport (IATA: NQZ, ICAO: UACC) is a large airport in Astana, Astana City, Kazakhstan. It opened in 1931. It has one runway, 3,500 m (11,484 ft) long, asphalt. In 2024 it handled 8.3 million passengers.
Timeline
1 event · 1931–19311931
OpenedNursultan Nazarbayev International Airport opens.
From WikidataEvery airfield, 1903–2026
Runways & airfield
Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap04/22045° / 225° · LIT
LENGTH3,500 m11,484 ftWIDTH45 m148 ftSURFACEAsphalt
Passengers per year
2013–20242.6M
3.0M
3.4M
3.5M
4.3M
4.5M
5.1M
3.1M
4.8M
6.0M
7.5M
8.3M
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Routes
73 destinations · 29 countriesYear-round49
PWQPavlodar International AirportKazakhstan · SCAT Airlines408 km254 miPPKPetropavl International AirportKazakhstan · Qazaq Air444 km276 miOMSOmsk Central AirportRussia · Qazaq Air455 km283 miDZNZhezkazgan National AirportKazakhstan · Qazaq Air457 km284 miKSNKostanay International AirportKazakhstan · Qazaq Air, FlyArystan592 km368 miPLXSemei International AirportKazakhstan · FlyArystan622 km386 miUKKOskemen International AirportKazakhstan · Qazaq Air, Air Astana, FlyArystan +1787 km489 miKZOKorkyt Ata International AirportKazakhstan · Qazaq Air, FlyArystan828 km514 miTDKTaldykorgan AirportKazakhstan · Qazaq Air836 km519 miOVBNovosibirsk Tolmachevo AirportRussia · Qazaq Air, S7 Airlines867 km539 miHSAHazrat Sultan International AirportKazakhstan · Qazaq Air, FlyArystan886 km551 miDMBTaraz International AirportKazakhstan · SCAT Airlines909 km565 miBSZManas International AirportKyrgyzstan · Qazaq Air914 km568 miSVXKoltsovo AirportRussia · Red Wings Airlines943 km586 miALAAlmaty International AirportKazakhstan · Qazaq Air, Air Astana, FlyArystan +1951 km591 miCITShymkent International AirportKazakhstan · Qazaq Air, FlyArystan, SCAT Airlines975 km606 miAKXAktobe International AirportKazakhstan · Qazaq Air, Air Astana, FlyArystan +11,008 km626 miYINIli Yining International AirportChina · FlyArystan1,079 km670 miTASTashkent International AirportUzbekistan · Centrum Air, FlyArystan1,099 km683 miSKDSamarkand International AirportUzbekistan · Qazaq Air1,307 km812 miURAManshuk Mametova International AirportKazakhstan · Air Astana, FlyArystan1,387 km862 miDYUDushanbe International AirportTajikistan · Somon Air1,403 km872 miURCÜrümqi Tianshan International AirportChina · FlyArystan1,435 km892 miGUWAtyrau International AirportKazakhstan · Air Astana, FlyArystan, SCAT Airlines1,490 km926 miKZNKazan International AirportRussia · Red Wings Airlines1,551 km964 miSCOAktau International AirportKazakhstan · Air Astana, FlyArystan, SCAT Airlines1,719 km1,068 miGYDHeydar Aliyev International AirportAzerbaijan · Azerbaijan Airlines2,022 km1,256 miMRVMineralnye Vody AirportRussia · Red Wings Airlines2,241 km1,392 miSVOSheremetyevo International AirportRussia · Aeroflot2,293 km1,425 miVKOVnukovo International AirportRussia · SCAT Airlines2,303 km1,431 miKUTDavid the Builder Kutaisi International AirportGeorgia · FlyArystan2,403 km1,493 miEVNZvartnots International AirportArmenia · Shirak Avia2,409 km1,497 miUBNUlaanbaatar Chinggis Khaan International AirportMongolia · SCAT Airlines2,564 km1,593 miLEDPulkovo AirportRussia · SCAT Airlines, Rossiya2,724 km1,693 miMSQMinsk National AirportBelarus · Belavia2,913 km1,810 miDXBDubai International AirportUnited Arab Emirates · flydubai, Air Astana3,177 km1,974 miESBEsenboğa International AirportTürkiye · AJet3,186 km1,980 miSAWIstanbul Sabiha Gökçen International AirportTürkiye · Pegasus Airlines, AJet3,394 km2,109 miISTİstanbul AirportTürkiye · Air Astana, Turkish Airlines3,411 km2,119 miWAWWarsaw Chopin AirportPoland · LOT Polish Airlines3,419 km2,124 miXIYXi'an Xianyang International AirportChina · Air China3,506 km2,179 miAYTAntalya International AirportTürkiye · Pegasus Airlines3,555 km2,209 miPEKBeijing Capital International AirportChina · Air Astana, Air China3,653 km2,270 miBEGBelgrade Nikola Tesla AirportSerbia · SCAT Airlines3,795 km2,358 miPRGVáclav Havel Airport PragueCzechia · SCAT Airlines3,938 km2,447 miFRAFrankfurt Main AirportGermany · Air Astana, Lufthansa4,310 km2,678 miICNIncheon International AirportSouth Korea · Air Astana4,513 km2,804 miCANGuangzhou Baiyun International AirportChina · Air Astana4,712 km2,928 miHKTPhuket International AirportThailand · Air Astana5,371 km3,337 miSeasonal16
BXHBalkhash AirportKazakhstan · Qazaq Air527 km327 miKSNKostanay International AirportKazakhstan · Air Astana592 km368 miUSJUsharal AirportKazakhstan · Qazaq Air, SCAT Airlines872 km542 miBSZManas International AirportKyrgyzstan · FlyArystan914 km568 miIKUIssyk-Kul International AirportKyrgyzstan · FlyArystan1,019 km633 miTASTashkent International AirportUzbekistan · Air Astana1,099 km683 miTBSTbilisi International AirportGeorgia · Air Astana2,268 km1,409 miBUSAlexander Kartveli Batumi International AirportGeorgia · FlyArystan, SCAT Airlines2,499 km1,553 miLCALarnaca International AirportCyprus · Air Astana3,510 km2,181 miAYTAntalya International AirportTürkiye · Air Astana3,555 km2,209 miBJVMilas Bodrum International AirportTürkiye · Air Astana3,748 km2,329 miTGDPodgorica Airport / Podgorica Golubovci AirbaseMontenegro · Air Astana4,008 km2,490 miUTPU-Tapao–Rayong–Pattaya International AirportThailand · SCAT Airlines5,027 km3,124 miDADDa Nang International AirportVietnam · Air Astana5,074 km3,153 miPQCPhú Quốc International AirportVietnam · Air Astana5,422 km3,369 miCXRCam Ranh International Airport / Cam Ranh Air BaseVietnam · Air Astana5,516 km3,427 miSeasonal charter12
DOHHamad International AirportQatar · Air Astana3,325 km2,066 miGZPGazipaşa-Alanya AirportTürkiye · FlyArystan3,495 km2,172 miAYTAntalya International AirportTürkiye · Mavi Gök Airlines, Turkish Airlines, SCAT Airlines3,555 km2,209 miGOXManohar International AirportIndia · FlyArystan3,929 km2,441 miGOIGoa Dabolim International AirportIndia · FlyArystan3,969 km2,466 miSSHSharm El Sheikh International AirportEgypt · Air Cairo, Air Djibouti, SCAT Airlines4,015 km2,495 miDBBEl Alamein International AirportEgypt · SCAT Airlines4,162 km2,586 miSYXSanya Phoenix International AirportChina · Air Astana, SCAT Airlines4,932 km3,065 miDADDa Nang International AirportVietnam · SCAT Airlines, VietJet Air5,074 km3,153 miMLEVelana International AirportMaldives · Air Astana5,211 km3,238 miPQCPhú Quốc International AirportVietnam · VietJet Air5,422 km3,369 miCXRCam Ranh International Airport / Cam Ranh Air BaseVietnam · SCAT Airlines, VietJet Air5,516 km3,427 miCargo5
TASTashkent International AirportUzbekistan · My Freighter Airlines1,099 km683 miTFUChengdu Tianfu International AirportChina · Sichuan Airlines3,560 km2,212 miBUDBudapest Liszt Ferenc International AirportHungary · Sichuan Airlines3,732 km2,319 miLUXLuxembourg-Findel International AirportLuxembourg · Cargolux4,480 km2,784 miHKGHong Kong International AirportHong Kong SAR China · Cathay Pacific4,845 km3,011 miMost destinationsAir Astana 26SCAT Airlines 22FlyArystan 21Qazaq Air 16Red Wings Airlines 3VietJet Air 3
Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from NQZ. Dashed: seasonal or charter. Blue: cargo. From the Wikipedia article “Nursultan Nazarbayev International Airport” (revision of 16 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
4 channelsAPPAPP124.600
ATISATIS128.300
RDRRADAR120.700
TWRTWR118.700