USM

Samui International Airport

ICAO VTSM9.5478°N 100.0620°E20 m / 64 ftLarge airport
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Samui International Airport (IATA: USM, ICAO: VTSM) is a large airport in Na Thon (Ko Samui Island), Surat Thani Province, Thailand. It opened in 1989. It has one runway, 2,060 m (6,759 ft) long, asphalt. It is operated by Bangkok Airways. In 2025 it handled 3.0 million passengers.

Timeline

2 events · 1989–1990
1989
OpenedSamui International Airport opens.
21 NOV 1990
DisasterBangkok Airways Flight 125.38 killed
From WikidataEvery airfield, 1903–2026

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap
Terminal 1
17/35175° / 355° · LIT
LENGTH2,060 m6,759 ftWIDTH45 m148 ftSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2014–2025
2.0M
2.1M
2.6M
2.6M
2.6M
2.4M
827K
296K
1.4M
2.3M
2.8M
3.0M
141516171819202122232425

Routes

2 destinations · 2 countries
Most destinationsBerjaya Air 1Scoot 1

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from USM. From the Wikipedia article “Samui Airport” (revision of 3 Sep 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country
Passengers3.0M (2025)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#472of 3,974 · #142 Asia · #6 THLongest runway2,060 m6,759 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft#3,703of 29,823 · #1,062 Asia · #33 THElevation20 m64 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=38,475of 43,341 · =2,504 Asia · #59 THAgeOpened 19892026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=9,524of 15,079 · =451 Asia · #24 THRunways11 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=4,360of 29,943 · =185 Asia · =6 TH
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

3 channels
APPAPP129.600
ATISATIS128.600
TWRTWR118.900