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title: "ADD — Addis Ababa Bole Airport, Addis Ababa · Orbit"
description: "Addis Ababa Bole International Airport (ADD/HAAB) serves Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Opened 1961, named after Haile Selassie I, 13.1 million passengers in 2025."
url: https://orbitflights.app/airports/add
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Addis Ababa · Ethiopia · Africa

# ADD — Addis Ababa Bole

Addis Ababa Bole International Airport serves Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 8 km from the city centre, and sits at 9.0°N, 38.8°E. This site carries 1 route touching it, with the great circle distance for each.

**IATA**
ADD
the code on your bag tag

**ICAO**
HAAB
used by air traffic control

**Opened**
1961
per Wikidata

**Passengers**
13.1M
in 2025

## History & name

Opened in 1961, Addis Ababa Bole International Airport takes its name from Addis Ababa and Bole, and also honours Haile Selassie I, Emperor of Ethiopia from 1930 to 1974\. It sits 8 km from Addis Ababa at an elevation of 7,630 feet, with two runways up to 3,800 m, and handled 13.1 million passengers in 2025.

Named after **Haile Selassie I** — Emperor of Ethiopia from 1930 to 1974

Read more: [Wikipedia ↗](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Addis%5FAbaba%5FBole%5FInternational%5FAirport) · [Wikidata ↗](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44923)

## At a glance

**Full name**
Addis Ababa Bole International Airport

**Serves**
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

**City centre**
8 km from Addis Ababa

**Opened**
1961

**Passengers**
13.1 million in 2025

**Runways**
2 runways, longest 3,800 m

**Elevation**
7,630 ft (2,326 m)

**Map**
[Open in Google Maps ↗](https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=8.97790,38.79930)

**Website**
[ethiopianairports.com ↗](http://www.ethiopianairports.com)

## Where it sits

9.0°N, 38.8°E puts ADD in the northern hemisphere, 998 km from the equator and 9,009 km from the North pole.

Of the 661 airports on this site it is the **477th** most northerly, which makes it the 185th most southerly.

## Straight through the middle

Straight down through the centre of the Earth comes out at 9.0°S, 141.2°W. The nearest airport on this site to that point is Fa'a'ā (PPT) in French Polynesia, still 1,317 km away — most of the planet's antipodes are ocean.

## What’s near it

The closest other airport on this site is **Kericho** (KEY), 1,114 km away in a straight line. Nothing else on this site is within 100 km.

## Distances from ADD

Great circle distance and an estimated time in the air.

| To                                                    |     | Distance | Estimated |
| ----------------------------------------------------- | --- | -------- | --------- |
| [Nairobi](https://orbitflights.app/routes/nbo-to-add) | NBO | 1,164 km | 1h 57m    |

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

## 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 ADD to anywhere →](https://orbitflights.app/distance)

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