# Bhavnagar Airport (BHU / VABV)

**Bhavnagar Airport** (IATA: BHU, ICAO: VABV) is a medium airport in Bhavnagar, Gujarat, India. It has one runway, 1,920 m (6,300 ft) long, asphalt. It is operated by Airports Authority of India.

Web page: https://dromopedia.com/airports/vabv

## At a glance

- IATA / ICAO: BHU / VABV
- Type: Medium airport
- Operator: Airports Authority of India
- Serves: Bhavnagar, Gujarat, India
- Elevation: 13 m / 44 ft
- Coordinates: 21.7522, 72.1852
- Runways: 1
- Longest runway: 1,920 m / 6,300 ft
- Time zone: UTC+5:30 · Asia/Kolkata
- Website: http://aai.aero/allAirports/bhavnagar.jsp
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhavnagar_Airport (15 languages)
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q511349
- Weather station: VABV
- Ident: VABV

## Runways

| Ident | Length | Width | Surface | True headings | Lighted |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 07/25 | 1,920 m / 6,300 ft | 46 m / 150 ft | Asphalt | 068° / 248° | yes |

## Routes

1 destination in 1 country. From the airport's Wikipedia article.

### Year-round (1)

- [NMI](https://dromopedia.com/airports/in-0276.md) Navi Mumbai International Airport · India · 321 km / 199 mi · IndiGo

## Airlines

The figure is how many destinations each airline flies from BHU, as the routes above have them. Hubs from Wikidata.

### Passenger (1)

- 6E [IndiGo](https://dromopedia.com/airlines/indigo) · 1

## Rankings

Ranked among 48,075 open airports; = marks a shared place.

| Measure | Value | World | Region | Country |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Longest runway | 1,920 m / 6,300 ft | =4,241 of 29,858 | #1,146 in Asia | #126 in IN |
| Elevation | 13 m / 44 ft | =39,637 of 43,403 | =2,669 in Asia | #279 in IN |
| Runways | 1 | =4,364 of 29,978 | =185 in Asia | =22 in IN |

## Radio frequencies

| Type | Description | MHz |
| --- | --- | --- |
| TWR | TWR | 120.800 |

## Nearby airports

- [STV](https://dromopedia.com/airports/vasu.md) Surat International Airport · 91 km / 57 mi
- [BDQ](https://dromopedia.com/airports/vabo.md) Vadodara International Airport · 125 km / 78 mi
- [HSR](https://dromopedia.com/airports/vahs.md) Rajkot International Airport · 137 km / 85 mi

## Sources

- [NOAA Aviation Weather Center](https://aviationweather.gov/data/api/): Weather data: NOAA Aviation Weather Center (Public Domain (US Government))
- [OurAirports](https://ourairports.com/data/): Airport data from OurAirports (Public Domain)
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org): Structured data from Wikidata (CC0 1.0)
- [Wikipedia: “Bhavnagar Airport”](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bhavnagar_Airport&oldid=1365439714), revision of 22 Jul 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- [timezone-boundary-builder](https://github.com/evansiroky/timezone-boundary-builder): Time zone boundaries © OpenStreetMap contributors, timezone-boundary-builder (ODbL 1.0)
- Every figure with its source: https://dromopedia.com/airports/vabv/data