SIF

Simara Airport

ICAO VNSI27.1598°N 84.9800°E137 m / 450 ftSmall airport
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Simara Airport (IATA: SIF, ICAO: VNSI) is a small airport in Simara, Madhesh Province, Nepal. It opened on 4 Jul 1958. It has one runway, 1,192 m (3,911 ft) long, asphalt. In 2019 it handled 135 thousand passengers.

Timeline

1 event · 1958–1958
04 JUL 1958
OpenedSimara Airport opens.

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap
Simara Domestic airport
01/19012° / 192° · LIT
LENGTH1,192 m3,911 ftWIDTH30 m98 ftSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2006–2019
83K
60K
66K
83K
82K
71K
51K
46K
79K
107K
231K
135K
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Routes

2 destinations · 1 country
Most destinationsBuddha Air 2Yeti Airlines 1Nepal Airlines 1

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from SIF. From the Wikipedia article “Simara Airport” (revision of 7 Jul 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country
Passengers135K (2019)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#1,708of 3,974 · #561 Asia · #11 NPLongest runway1,192 m3,911 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft#10,900of 29,823 · #1,597 Asia · #10 NPElevation137 m450 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=27,990of 43,341 · =1,542 Asia · #44 NPAgeOpened 19582026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=4,324of 15,079 · =242 Asia · =2 NPRunways11 · 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