# Deoghar Airport (DGH / VEDO)

**Deoghar Airport** (IATA: DGH, ICAO: VEDO) is a small airport in Deoghar, Jharkhand, India. It opened on 12 Jul 2022. It has one runway, 731 m (2,398 ft) long, paved.

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

## At a glance

- IATA / ICAO: DGH / VEDO
- Type: Small airport
- Serves: Deoghar, Jharkhand, India
- Opened: 12 Jul 2022 (Wikipedia)
- Elevation: 110 m / 361 ft
- Coordinates: 24.4468, 86.7050
- Runways: 1
- Longest runway: 731 m / 2,398 ft
- Time zone: UTC+5:30 · Asia/Kolkata
- Website: https://www.aai.aero/en/airports/deoghar
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deoghar_Airport (6 languages)
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q29641454
- Weather station: VEDO
- Ident: VEDO

## Timeline

- 12 Jul 2022: Deoghar Airport opens.

## Runways

| Ident | Length | Width | Surface | True headings | Lighted |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 09/27 | 731 m / 2,398 ft |  | Paved |  |  |

## Routes

6 destinations in 1 country. From the airport's Wikipedia article.

### Year-round (6)

- [PAT](https://dromopedia.com/airports/vept.md) Jay Prakash Narayan Airport · India · 207 km / 129 mi · IndiGo
- [CCU](https://dromopedia.com/airports/vecc.md) Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International Airport · India · 267 km / 166 mi · IndiGo
- [GAU](https://dromopedia.com/airports/vegt.md) Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport · India · 524 km / 326 mi · IndiGo
- [DEL](https://dromopedia.com/airports/vidp.md) Indira Gandhi International Airport · India · 1,059 km / 658 mi · IndiGo
- [BOM](https://dromopedia.com/airports/vabb.md) Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport · India · 1,547 km / 961 mi · IndiGo
- [BLR](https://dromopedia.com/airports/vobl.md) Kempegowda International Airport Bengaluru · India · 1,568 km / 974 mi · IndiGo

## Airlines

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

### Passenger (1)

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

## Rankings

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

| Measure | Value | World | Region | Country |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Longest runway | 731 m / 2,398 ft | #21,774 of 29,858 | #1,849 in Asia | #253 in IN |
| Elevation | 110 m / 361 ft | =29,858 of 43,403 | =1,654 in Asia | #206 in IN |
| Age | Opened 2022 | =14,253 of 15,079 | =814 in Asia | =77 in IN |
| Runways | 1 | =4,364 of 29,978 | =185 in Asia | =22 in IN |

## Nearby airports

- [VE41](https://dromopedia.com/airports/ve41.md) Giridih Airport · 50 km / 31 mi
- [IN-0100](https://dromopedia.com/airports/in-0100.md) Sido Kanhu Airport · 62 km / 39 mi
- [DBD](https://dromopedia.com/airports/vedb.md) Dhanbad Airport · 74 km / 46 mi
- [IN-0077](https://dromopedia.com/airports/in-0077.md) Bhagalpur Airport · 94 km / 59 mi
- [VE23](https://dromopedia.com/airports/ve23.md) Burnpur Airport · 95 km / 59 mi
- [IN-0097](https://dromopedia.com/airports/in-0097.md) Surichua Air Base · 105 km / 65 mi

## In collections

- [Shortest runways with airline service](https://dromopedia.com/collections/shortest-scheduled) #27

## 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: “Deoghar Airport”](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Deoghar_Airport&oldid=1367619831), revision of 4 Aug 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/vedo/data