Wamena Airport

ICAO WAVV4.0973°S 138.9524°E1,657 m / 5,435 ftMedium airport

Wamena Airport (IATA: WMX, ICAO: WAVV) is a medium airport in Wamena, Papua Pegunungan (Highland Papua), Indonesia. It has one runway, 2,175 m (7,135 ft) long, asphalt. In 2017 it handled 401 thousand passengers.

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap

15/33153° / 333° · LIT

LENGTH2,175 m7,135 ftWIDTH45 m147 ftSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2010–2017

202K

401K

1017

Routes

3 destinations · 1 country

Year-round2

OKLOksibil AirportIndonesia · Susi Air206 km128 mi DJJDortheys Hiyo Eluay International AirportIndonesia · Wings Air, Sriwijaya Air242 km150 mi

Cargo2

TIMMozes Kilangin AirportIndonesia · Asia Cargo Airlines, Jayawijaya Dirgantara234 km145 mi DJJDortheys Hiyo Eluay International AirportIndonesia · My Indo Airlines, Jayawijaya Dirgantara242 km150 mi

Most destinationsJayawijaya Dirgantara 2Susi Air 1Wings Air 1Sriwijaya Air 1Asia Cargo Airlines 1My Indo Airlines 1

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from WMX. Blue: cargo. From the Wikipedia article “Wamena Airport” (revision of 17 Sep 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

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

Passengers401K (2017)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#1,210of 3,974 · #391 Asia · #45 ID Longest runway2,175 m7,135 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft#3,382of 29,823 · #1,022 Asia · #47 ID Elevation1,657 m5,435 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=1,528of 43,341 · #229 Asia · #102 ID Runways11 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=4,360of 29,943 · =185 Asia · =9 ID

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

AFISINFO120.000

TWR120.000

ATISWamena ATIS127.200