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title: "ZNZ — Abeid Amani Karume Airport, Zanzibar · Orbit"
description: "Abeid Amani Karume International Airport (ZNZ/HTZA) serves Zanzibar, Tanzania. 934,000 passengers in 2014, 7 km from Zanzibar."
url: https://orbitflights.app/airports/znz
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Zanzibar · Tanzania · Africa

# ZNZ — Abeid Amani Karume

Abeid Amani Karume International Airport serves Zanzibar, Tanzania, 7 km from the city centre, and sits at 6.2°S, 39.2°E. This site carries 1 route touching it, with the great circle distance for each.

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

**ICAO**
HTZA
used by air traffic control

**Passengers**
934,000
in 2014

**Routes here**
1
in the catalogue

## History & name

Abeid Amani Karume International Airport lies 7 km from Zanzibar in Tanzania. It has one runway of 3,022 m at an elevation of 54 feet and handled 934,000 passengers in 2014.

Read more: [Wikipedia ↗](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abeid%5FAmani%5FKarume%5FInternational%5FAirport) · [Wikidata ↗](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1393401)

## At a glance

**Full name**
Abeid Amani Karume International Airport

**Serves**
Zanzibar, Tanzania

**City centre**
7 km from Zanzibar

**Passengers**
934,000 in 2014

**Runways**
1 runway, 3,022 m

**Elevation**
54 ft (16 m)

**Map**
[Open in Google Maps ↗](https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=-6.22200,39.22490)

## Where it sits

6.2°S, 39.2°E puts ZNZ in the southern hemisphere, 692 km from the equator and 9,316 km from the South pole.

Of the 661 airports on this site it is the **541st** most northerly, which makes it the 121st most southerly.

## Straight through the middle

Straight down through the centre of the Earth comes out at 6.2°N, 140.8°W. The nearest airport on this site to that point is Hilo (ITO) in United States, still 2,152 km away — most of the planet's antipodes are ocean.

## What’s near it

The closest other airport on this site is **Julius Nyerere** (DAR), 72 km away in a straight line. It is the only one within 100 km.

DAR Julius Nyerere 72 km

## Distances from ZNZ

Great circle distance and an estimated time in the air.

| To                                                    |     | Distance | Estimated |
| ----------------------------------------------------- | --- | -------- | --------- |
| [Nairobi](https://orbitflights.app/routes/nbo-to-znz) | NBO | 602 km   | 1h 15m    |

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

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