WEI

Weipa Airport

ICAO YBWP12.6775°S 141.9226°E19 m / 63 ftMedium airport
On the map

Weipa Airport (IATA: WEI, ICAO: YBWP) is a medium airport in Weipa, Queensland, Australia. It has one runway, 1,645 m (5,397 ft) long, asphalt. It is operated by Rio Tinto Group. In 2022 it handled 83 thousand passengers.

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap
12/30124° / 304° · LIT
LENGTH1,645 m5,397 ftWIDTH30 m98 ftSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2011–2022
65K
71K
70K
67K
66K
69K
75K
80K
72K
42K
76K
83K
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Routes

4 destinations · 1 country
Most destinationsSmartLynx Australia 3Alliance Airlines 2QantasLink 1

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from WEI. From the Wikipedia article “Weipa Airport” (revision of 17 Jul 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country
Passengers83K (2022)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#1,888of 3,974 · #84 Oceania · #50 AULongest runway1,645 m5,397 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=5,637of 29,823 · =265 Oceania · #187 AUElevation19 m63 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=38,503of 43,341 · =1,693 Oceania · =1,036 AURunways11 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=4,360of 29,943 · =526 Oceania · =468 AU
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

2 channels
CTAFCTAF126.700
RDOBRISBANE CNTR122.100