Nepalgunj Airport

ICAO VNNG28.1036°N 81.6670°E165 m / 540 ftMedium airport

Nepalgunj Airport (IATA: KEP, ICAO: VNNG) is a medium airport in Nepalgunj, Lumbini Province, Nepal. It has one runway, 1,504 m (4,935 ft) long, asphalt. In 2019 it handled 453 thousand passengers.

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap

08/26081° / 261°

LENGTH1,504 m4,935 ftWIDTH31 m100 ftSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2006–2019

113K

103K

78K

140K

143K

166K

176K

234K

369K

427K

453K

060708091011141516171819

Routes

9 destinations · 1 country

Year-round9

TPUTikapur AirportNepal · Tara Air71 km44 mi VNSLRukum Salle AirportNepal · Nepal Airlines97 km60 mi JUMJumla AirportNepal · Sita Air, Summit Air, Nepal Airlines +1140 km87 mi DOPDolpa AirportNepal · Sita Air, Summit Air, Nepal Airlines +1149 km93 mi BJUBajura AirportNepal · Sita Air, Summit Air, Nepal Airlines +1155 km96 mi Talcha Rara Mugu AirportNepal · Sita Air, Summit Air, Tara Air164 km102 mi IMKSimikot AirportNepal · Sita Air, Summit Air, Nepal Airlines +1208 km129 mi PHHPokhara International AirportNepal · Buddha Air230 km143 mi KTMTribhuvan International AirportNepal · Yeti Airlines, Sita Air, Summit Air +4366 km227 mi

Most destinationsTara Air 6Sita Air 6Summit Air 6Nepal Airlines 5Buddha Air 2Yeti Airlines 1

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

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country

Passengers453K (2019)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#1,154of 3,974 · #372 Asia · #4 NP Longest runway1,504 m4,935 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=6,955of 29,823 · #1,367 Asia · #6 NP Elevation165 m540 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=26,388of 43,341 · =1,458 Asia · #42 NP Runways11 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=4,360of 29,943 · =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

TWRTWR118.300