BWA

Gautam Buddha International Airport

ICAO VNBW27.5046°N 83.4104°E109 m / 358 ftLarge airport
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Gautam Buddha International Airport (IATA: BWA, ICAO: VNBW) is a large airport in Siddharthanagar (Bhairahawa), Lumbini Province, Nepal. It opened on 8 Jul 1958. It has one runway, 3,000 m (9,843 ft) long, asphalt. In 2019 it handled 388 thousand passengers.

Timeline

1 event · 1958–1958
08 JUL 1958
OpenedGautam Buddha International Airport opens.
From Wikidata and WikipediaEvery airfield, 1903–2026

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap
Gautam Buddha AirportGautamabuddha International Airport
10/28099° / 279° · LIT
LENGTH3,000 m9,843 ftWIDTH45 m148 ftSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2006–2019
66K
52K
61K
84K
84K
120K
110K
108K
168K
300K
378K
388K
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Routes

3 destinations · 2 countries

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from BWA. From the Wikipedia article “Gautam Buddha International Airport” (revision of 26 Aug 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Airlines

4 airlines · destinations from BWA
Passenger4
U4Buddha Air2N9Shree Airlines1FDThai AirAsia1YTYeti Airlines1

Airlines and destinations as the Routes list above has them; the figure is how many destinations each flies from BWA. Hubs from Wikidata. All airlines

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,075 open airports · world · region · country
Passengers388K (2019)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#1,225of 3,974 · #397 Asia · #5 NPLongest runway3,000 m9,843 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=1,196of 29,858 · =339 Asia · #2 NPElevation109 m358 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=29,981of 43,403 · =1,664 Asia · #45 NPAgeOpened 19582026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=4,324of 15,079 · =241 Asia · =2 NPRunways11 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=4,364of 29,978 · =185 Asia · =1 NP
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
TWRTWR122.500