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title: "KTM — Tribhuvan Airport, Kathmandu · Orbit"
description: "Tribhuvan International Airport (KTM/VNKT) serves Kathmandu, Nepal. Opened 1955, named after Tribhuvan I of Nepal, 7.3 million passengers in 2019, 4 km from Kathmandu."
url: https://orbitflights.app/airports/ktm
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Kathmandu · Nepal · Asia

# KTM — Tribhuvan

Tribhuvan International Airport serves Kathmandu, Nepal, 4 km from the city centre, and sits at 27.7°N, 85.4°E. This site carries 1 route touching it, with the great circle distance for each.

**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 after **Tribhuvan I of Nepal** — King of Nepal (1906-1955)

Read more: [Wikipedia ↗](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tribhuvan%5FInternational%5FAirport) · [Wikidata ↗](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q61066)

## 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)

**Map**
[Open in Google Maps ↗](https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=27.69660,85.35910)

**Website**
[tiairport.com.np ↗](https://www.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](https://orbitflights.app/routes/del-to-ktm) | DEL | 816 km   | 1h 31m    |

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

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

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