- IATA
- KTM
- the code on your bag tag
- ICAO
- VNKT
- used by air traffic control
- Opened
- 1955
- per Wikidata
- Passengers
- 7.3M
- in 2019
History & name
Tribhuvan International Airport opened in 1955 and honours Tribhuvan I of Nepal, King of Nepal (1906-1955). The Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal operates it just 4 km from Kathmandu, at an elevation of 4,390 ft. It handled 7.3 million passengers in 2019 on one runway of 3,350 m.
Named afterTribhuvan I of Nepal — King of Nepal (1906-1955)
Read more: Wikipedia ↗ · Wikidata ↗
At a glance
- Full name
- Tribhuvan International Airport
- Serves
- Kathmandu, Nepal
- City centre
- 4 km from Kathmandu
- Opened
- 1955
- Operator
- Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal
- Passengers
- 7.3 million in 2019
- Runways
- 1 runway, 3,350 m
- Elevation
- 4,390 ft (1,338 m)
- Website
- tiairport.com.np ↗
Where it sits
27.7°N, 85.4°E puts KTM in the northern hemisphere, 3,080 km from the equator and 6,928 km from the North pole.
Of the 661 airports on this site it is the 327th most northerly, which makes it the 335th most southerly.
Straight through the middle
Straight down through the centre of the Earth comes out at 27.7°S, 94.6°W. The nearest airport on this site to that point is Mataveri (IPC) in Chile, still 1,459 km away — most of the planet's antipodes are ocean.
What’s near it
The closest other airport on this site is Pokhara Domestic (PKR), 146 km away in a straight line. Nothing else on this site is within 100 km.
Distances from KTM
Great circle distance and an estimated time in the air.
| To | Distance | Estimated | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Delhi | DEL | 816 km | 1h 31m |
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.
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.
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