CIT

Shymkent International Airport

ICAO UAII42.3650°N 69.4756°E422 m / 1,385 ftLarge airport
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Shymkent International Airport (IATA: CIT, ICAO: UAII) is a large airport in Shymkent, Turkistan Region, Kazakhstan. It opened in 1933. It has one runway, 2,800 m (9,186 ft) long, concrete. In 2019 it handled 955 thousand passengers.

Timeline

2 events · 1933–2012
1933
OpenedShymkent International Airport opens.
25 DEC 2012
Disaster2012 Kazakhstan Antonov An-72 crash.27 killed
From WikidataEvery airfield, 1903–2026

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap
Шымкент Халықаралық Әуежайы
10/28107° / 287° · LIT
LENGTH2,800 m9,186 ftWIDTH44 m144 ftSURFACEConcrete

Passengers per year

2012–2019
186K
265K
443K
551K
621K
811K
817K
955K
1213141516171819

Routes

14 destinations · 8 countries
1,000 km2,000 km3,000 km1,000 mi2,000 miDZN · Zhezkazgan National Airport · 610 km / 379 miALA · Almaty International Airport · 626 km / 389 miNQZ · Nursultan Nazarbayev International Airport · 975 km / 606 miGUW · Atyrau International Airport · 1,487 km / 924 miSCO · Aktau International Airport · 1,498 km / 931 miOVB · Novosibirsk Tolmachevo Airport · 1,700 km / 1,056 miDXB · Dubai International Airport · 2,300 km / 1,429 miSVO · Sheremetyevo International Airport · 2,741 km / 1,703 miJED · King Abdulaziz International Airport · 3,635 km / 2,259 miKUT · David the Builder Kutaisi International Airport · 2,211 km / 1,374 miBUS · Alexander Kartveli Batumi International Airport · 2,295 km / 1,426 miDOH · Hamad International Airport · 2,506 km / 1,557 miAYT · Antalya International Airport · 3,338 km / 2,074 miSSH · Sharm El Sheikh International Airport · 3,533 km / 2,195 miJEDSSHAYTSVODOHDXBBUSOVBSCOGUWNQZALADZNKUTCIT
Most destinationsFlyArystan 6Qazaq Air 3Air Astana 3SCAT Airlines 2S7 Airlines 1flydubai 1

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from CIT. Dashed: seasonal or charter. From the Wikipedia article “Şymkent International Airport” (revision of 12 Sep 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country
Passengers955K (2019)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#837of 3,974 · #263 Asia · #4 KZLongest runway2,800 m9,186 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=1,614of 29,823 · =459 Asia · #15 KZElevation422 m1,385 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=12,979of 43,341 · =923 Asia · #37 KZAgeOpened 19332026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=521of 15,079 · =56 Asia · =2 KZRunways11 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=4,360of 29,943 · =185 Asia · =5 KZ
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

1 channels
TWRTWR118.700