- IATA
- ACC
- the code on your bag tag
- ICAO
- DGAA
- used by air traffic control
- Passengers
- 2.8M
- in 2022
- Routes here
- 1
- in the catalogue
History & name
Kotoka International Airport is named after Emmanuel Kwasi Kotoka (1926-1967), a Ghanian politician. It lies 6 km from Accra, has one runway of 3,403 m at an elevation of 205 feet, and handled 2.8 million passengers in 2022.
Named afterEmmanuel Kwasi Kotoka — Ghanian politician (1926-1967)
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At a glance
- Full name
- Kotoka International Airport
- Serves
- Accra, Ghana
- City centre
- 6 km from Accra
- Passengers
- 2.8 million in 2022
- Runways
- 1 runway, 3,403 m
- Elevation
- 205 ft (62 m)
Where it sits
5.6°N, 0.2°W puts ACC in the northern hemisphere, 623 km from the equator and 9,384 km from the North pole.
Of the 661 airports on this site it is the 496th most northerly, which makes it the 166th most southerly.
Straight through the middle
Straight down through the centre of the Earth comes out at 5.6°S, 179.8°E — 332 km from Funafuti (FUN) in Tuvalu, which is about as close to a true antipodal airport pair as this table gets.
What’s near it
The closest other airport on this site is Lomé–Tokoin (LFW), 169 km away in a straight line. Nothing else on this site is within 100 km.
Distances from ACC
Great circle distance and an estimated time in the air.
| To | Distance | Estimated | |
|---|---|---|---|
| London | LHR | 5,100 km | 6h 50m |
Where these facts come from
The profile is looked up, not written from memory: type, runways, elevation and the official website from OurAirports (public domain); opening year, namesake, operator and passenger count from Wikidata (CC0); the city centre from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Where a source has nothing, the line is left out. Distances, neighbours and the antipode are computed from the coordinates.
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