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title: "MLE — Velana Airport, Malé · Orbit"
description: "Velana International Airport (MLE/VRMM) serves Malé, Maldives. Opened 1966, 3 km from Male. Map, website and distances to 3 destinations."
url: https://orbitflights.app/airports/mle
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Malé · Maldives · Asia

# MLE — Velana

Velana International Airport serves Malé, Maldives, 3 km from the centre of Male, and sits at 4.2°N, 73.5°E. This site carries 3 routes touching it, with the great circle distance for each.

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

**ICAO**
VRMM
used by air traffic control

**Opened**
1966
per Wikidata

**Routes here**
3
in the catalogue

## History & name

Velana International Airport, which takes its name from Velana, opened in 1966 and sits 3 km from Male in the Maldives. It has one runway of 3,400 m and an elevation of just 6 ft.

Read more: [Wikipedia ↗](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mal%C3%A9%5FInternational%5FAirport) · [Wikidata ↗](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q29104)

## At a glance

**Full name**
Velana International Airport

**Serves**
Malé, Maldives

**City centre**
3 km from Male

**Opened**
1966

**Runways**
1 runway, 3,400 m

**Elevation**
6 ft (2 m)

**Map**
[Open in Google Maps ↗](https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=4.19180,73.52910)

**Website**
[airports.com.mv ↗](https://www.airports.com.mv/)

## Where it sits

4.2°N, 73.5°E puts MLE in the northern hemisphere, 466 km from the equator and 9,541 km from the North pole.

Of the 661 airports on this site it is the **505th** most northerly, which makes it the 157th most southerly.

## Straight through the middle

Straight down through the centre of the Earth comes out at 4.2°S, 106.5°W. The nearest airport on this site to that point is Seymour Galapagos Ecological (GPS) in Ecuador, still 1,847 km away — most of the planet's antipodes are ocean.

## What’s near it

The closest other airport on this site is **Gan** (GAN), 545 km away in a straight line. Nothing else on this site is within 100 km.

## Distances from MLE

Great circle distance and an estimated time in the air. The longest is London, at 8,539 km.

| To                                                   |     | Distance | Estimated |
| ---------------------------------------------------- | --- | -------- | --------- |
| [Mumbai](https://orbitflights.app/routes/bom-to-mle) | BOM | 1,658 km | 2h 34m    |
| [Doha](https://orbitflights.app/routes/doh-to-mle)   | DOH | 3,312 km | 4h 37m    |
| [London](https://orbitflights.app/routes/lhr-to-mle) | LHR | 8,539 km | 11h 07m   |

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

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