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title: "ACC — Kotoka Airport, Accra · Orbit"
description: "Kotoka International Airport (ACC/DGAA) serves Accra, Ghana. Named after Emmanuel Kwasi Kotoka, 2.8 million passengers in 2022, 6 km from Accra."
url: https://orbitflights.app/airports/acc
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Accra · Ghana · Africa

# ACC — Kotoka

Kotoka International Airport serves Accra, Ghana, 6 km from the city centre, and sits at 5.6°N, 0.2°W. This site carries 1 route touching it, with the great circle distance for each.

**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 after **Emmanuel Kwasi Kotoka** — Ghanian politician (1926-1967)

Read more: [Wikipedia ↗](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kotoka%5FInternational%5FAirport) · [Wikidata ↗](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q177689)

## 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)

**Map**
[Open in Google Maps ↗](https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=5.60520,-0.16680)

## 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](https://orbitflights.app/routes/lhr-to-acc) | LHR | 5,100 km | 6h 50m    |

[Distance from ACC to any airport →](https://orbitflights.app/distance?from=ACC&to=LHR) [Map a trip from ACC →](https://orbitflights.app/tools/flight-route-map?r=ACC-LHR)

## Where these facts come from

The profile is looked up, not written from memory: type, runways, elevation and the official website from [OurAirports](https://ourairports.com/data/) (public domain); opening year, namesake, operator and passenger count from [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/) (CC0); the city centre from [GeoNames](https://www.geonames.org/) (CC BY 4.0). Where a source has nothing, the line is left out. Distances, neighbours and the antipode are computed from the coordinates.

What you won’t find: terminal maps, airline lists, shops or live departures. Orbit is a logbook, not a flight tracker, and a page that guessed at those would be worse than one that leaves them out.

[Measure ACC to anywhere →](https://orbitflights.app/distance)

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