Sandakan Airport

ICAO WBKS5.9009°N 118.0590°E14 m / 46 ftMedium airport

Sandakan Airport (IATA: SDK, ICAO: WBKS) is a medium airport in Sandakan, Sabah, Malaysia. It has one runway, 2,500 m (8,202 ft) long, asphalt. It is operated by Malaysia Airports. In 2021 it handled 242 thousand passengers.

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap

08/26081° / 261° · LIT

LENGTH2,500 m8,202 ftWIDTH45 m148 ftSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2010–2021

706K

789K

835K

912K

900K

853K

883K

895K

951K

1.1M

362K

242K

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Routes

4 destinations · 1 country

Year-round4

LDULahad Datu AirportMalaysia · MASwings101 km63 mi TWUTawau AirportMalaysia · MASwings177 km110 mi BKIKota Kinabalu International AirportMalaysia · AirAsia, Batik Air Malaysia222 km138 mi KULKuala Lumpur International AirportMalaysia · Malaysia Airlines, AirAsia, Batik Air Malaysia1,846 km1,147 mi

Most destinationsMASwings 2AirAsia 2Batik Air Malaysia 2Malaysia Airlines 1

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from SDK. From the Wikipedia article “Sandakan Airport” (revision of 28 Jul 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

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

Passengers242K (2021)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#1,452of 3,974 · #476 Asia · #12 MY Longest runway2,500 m8,202 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=2,332of 29,823 · =737 Asia · #16 MY Elevation14 m46 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=39,436of 43,341 · =2,659 Asia · =56 MY Runways11 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=4,360of 29,943 · =185 Asia · =3 MY

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

APPAPP123.200

GNDGND121.900

TWRTWR121.050