# Taplejung Airport (TPJ / VNTJ)

**Taplejung Airport** (IATA: TPJ, ICAO: VNTJ) is a medium airport in Taplejung, Koshi Province, Nepal. It has one runway, 705 m (2,313 ft) long. In 2019 it handled 2 thousand passengers.

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

## At a glance

- IATA / ICAO: TPJ / VNTJ
- Type: Medium airport
- Serves: Taplejung, Koshi Province, Nepal
- Elevation: 2,435 m / 7,990 ft
- Coordinates: 27.3509, 87.6953
- Runways: 1
- Longest runway: 705 m / 2,313 ft
- Passengers: 2,097 (2019)
- Time zone: UTC+5:45 · Asia/Kathmandu
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taplejung_Airport (14 languages)
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q63860
- Weather station: VNTJ · WMO 44474
- Ident: VNTJ

## Runways

| Ident | Length | Width | Surface | True headings | Lighted |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 07/25 | 705 m / 2,313 ft |  |  |  |  |

## Passengers per year

| Year | Passengers | Source |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 2014 | 1,376 | Wikidata |
| 2015 | 893 | Wikidata |
| 2016 | 2,691 | Wikidata |
| 2017 | 2,094 | Wikidata |
| 2018 | 2,393 | Wikidata |
| 2019 | 2,097 | Wikidata |

## Routes

1 destination in 1 country. From the airport's Wikipedia article.

### Year-round (1)

- [KTM](https://dromopedia.com/airports/vnkt.md) Tribhuvan International Airport · Nepal · 234 km / 145 mi · Sita Air, Summit Air, Nepal Airlines

### Charter (1)

- [KTM](https://dromopedia.com/airports/vnkt.md) Tribhuvan International Airport · Nepal · 234 km / 145 mi · Tara Air

## Airlines

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

### Passenger (4)

- RA [Nepal Airlines](https://dromopedia.com/airlines/nepal-airlines) · 1
- ST [Sita Air](https://dromopedia.com/airlines/sita-air) · 1
- [Summit Air](https://dromopedia.com/airlines/summit-air) · 1
- [Tara Air](https://dromopedia.com/airlines/tara-air) · 1 · charter

## Rankings

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

| Measure | Value | World | Region | Country |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Passengers | 2K (2019) | #3,141 of 3,974 | #872 in Asia | #23 in NP |
| Longest runway | 705 m / 2,313 ft | =22,040 of 29,858 | #1,859 in Asia | #18 in NP |
| Elevation | 2,435 m / 7,990 ft | #252 of 43,403 | #64 in Asia | #10 in NP |
| Runways | 1 | =4,364 of 29,978 | =185 in Asia | =1 in NP |

## Nearby airports

- [IXB](https://dromopedia.com/airports/vebd.md) Bagdogra Airport · 97 km / 61 mi
- [LUA](https://dromopedia.com/airports/vnlk.md) Tenzing-Hillary Airport · 102 km / 64 mi
- [BIR](https://dromopedia.com/airports/vnvt.md) Biratnagar Airport · 106 km / 66 mi

## In collections

- [Highest airports](https://dromopedia.com/collections/highest) #52

## 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: “Taplejung Airport”](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Taplejung_Airport&oldid=1363082024), revision of 7 Jul 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/vntj/data