IMK

Simikot Airport

ICAO VNST29.9711°N 81.8189°E2,818 m / 9,246 ftSmall airport
On the map

Simikot Airport (IATA: IMK, ICAO: VNST) is a small airport in Simikot, Karnali Province, Nepal. In 2019 it handled 138 thousand passengers.

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap

Passengers per year

2014–2019
13K
22K
57K
60K
54K
138K
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Routes

2 destinations · 1 country
Most destinationsSummit Air 2Nepal Airlines 2Sita Air 1Tara Air 1

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

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country
Passengers138K (2019)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#1,695of 3,974 · #556 Asia · #9 NPElevation2,818 m9,246 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft#123of 43,341 · #40 Asia · #5 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