Presidente Nicolau Lobato International Airport

ICAO WPDL8.5466°S 125.5245°E47 m / 154 ftLarge airport

Presidente Nicolau Lobato International Airport (IATA: DIL, ICAO: WPDL) is a large airport in Dili, Timor-Leste. It has one runway, 1,849 m (6,065 ft) long, asphalt. In 2021 it handled 25 thousand passengers.

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap

08/26077° / 257° · LIT

LENGTH1,849 m6,065 ftWIDTH30 m98 ftSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2009–2021

126K

150K

151K

182K

187K

183K

232K

247K

246K

187K

41K

25K

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Routes

7 destinations · 6 countries

Year-round7

OECOecusse Route of the Sandalwood International AirportTimor-Leste · Aero Dili149 km93 mi DRWDarwin International Airport / RAAF DarwinAustralia · QantasLink, Airnorth, Aero Dili727 km452 mi DPSDenpasar I Gusti Ngurah Rai International AirportIndonesia · Citilink, Aero Dili1,139 km708 mi SINSingapore Changi AirportSingapore · Aero Dili2,628 km1,633 mi KULKuala Lumpur International AirportMalaysia · Aero Dili, Batik Air Malaysia2,924 km1,817 mi XMNXiamen Gaoqi International AirportChina · Aero Dili3,766 km2,340 mi FOCFuzhou Changle International AirportChina · Aero Dili3,885 km2,414 mi

Most destinationsAero Dili 7QantasLink 1Airnorth 1Citilink 1Batik Air Malaysia 1

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from DIL. From the Wikipedia article “Presidente Nicolau Lobato International Airport” (revision of 9 Sep 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

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

Passengers25K (2021)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#2,368of 3,974 · #731 Asia Longest runway1,849 m6,065 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=4,458of 29,823 · #1,186 Asia · #3 TL Elevation47 m154 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=35,110of 43,341 · =2,102 Asia · #6 TL Runways11 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=4,360of 29,943 · =185 Asia · =1 TL

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

APPCOMORO APP/TWR122.900

GNDCOMORO GND133.900

MISCPCL125.500