List of the largest airports in Africa

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This list of the largest airports in Africa includes all airports in Africa with a passenger volume of more than 2 million per calendar year.

The African airports include all airports that are geographically located in Africa. Those in the outskirts of non-African countries are written in italics .

Passenger volume

Rank
2016 		Airport city country Passengers
2016 		Passengers
2017
1. OR Tambo International Airport Johannesburg South AfricaSouth Africa South Africa 20,803,950
2. Cairo International Airport Cairo EgyptEgypt Egypt 16,468,082 15,959,076  
3. Aeropuerto de Gran Canaria Gran Canaria SpainSpain Spain 12.093.645 13.092.475  
4th Aeropuerto de Tenerife Sur Reina Sofía Tenerife SpainSpain Spain 10,472,404 11,248,882  
5. Cape Town International Airport Cape Town South AfricaSouth Africa South Africa 10,090,418
6th Bole International Airport Addis Ababa EthiopiaEthiopia Ethiopia 8,730,600 10,072,828  
7th Aéroport international de Mohammed V - Nouasseur Casablanca MoroccoMorocco Morocco 8,616,981 9,357,427  
8th. Aéroport Houari Boumedienne Algiers AlgeriaAlgeria Algeria 7,572,758
9. Jomo Kenyatta International Airport Nairobi KenyaKenya Kenya 7,111,501
10. Aeropuerto de Lanzarote Lanzarote SpainSpain Spain 6,683,966 7,388,964  
11. Murtala Mohammed International Airport Lagos NigeriaNigeria Nigeria 6,324,847
12. Aeropuerto de Fuerteventura Fuerteventura SpainSpain Spain 5,676,817 6,049,291  
13. King Shaka International Airport Durban South AfricaSouth Africa South Africa 5,192,315
14th Aéroport International de Tunis-Carthage Tunis TunisiaTunisia Tunisia 4,928,438
15th Aeropuerto de Tenerife North Tenerife SpainSpain Spain 4,219,191 4,706,827  
16. Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport Abuja NigeriaNigeria Nigeria 4,191,251
17th Aeroport Marrakech-Menara Marrakech MoroccoMorocco Morocco 3,895,647 4,359,865  
18th Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam International Airport of Mauritius Port Louis MauritiusMauritius Mauritius 3,197,308
19th Khartoum International Airport Khartoum SudanSudan Sudan 3,142,751
20th Hurghada International Airport Hurghada EgyptEgypt Egypt 2,906,907 4,730,232  
21st Sharm el-Sheikh International Airport Sharm El Sheikh EgyptEgypt Egypt 2,985,035
21st Castle al-ʿArab International Airport Alexandria EgyptEgypt Egypt 2,642,059 2,207,723  
22nd Julius Nyerere International Airport Dar es Salaam TanzaniaTanzania Tanzania 2,469,356
23. Kotoka International Airport Accra GhanaGhana Ghana 2,381,917 2,294,689  
24. Aéroport de La Réunion Roland Garros St. Denis ReunionReunion Reunion 2.107.270

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Annual World Airport Traffic Dataset, 2017. Airports Council International, 2017.
  2. ↑ a b c d Statistics. Egyptian Holding Company for Airports and Air Navigation. Retrieved April 2, 2019.
  3. ↑ a b c d e TRÁFICO DE PASAJEROS, OPERACIONES Y CARGA EN LOS AEROPUERTOS ESPAÑOLES. AENA, 2017.
  4. ↑ Asia dominates list of fastest-growing airports. Routes online. Retrieved April 2, 2019.
  5. ↑ a b Trafic Aérien de l'année 2017: Les Aéroports du Maroc franchissent pour la première fois le cap de 20 millions de passagers. ONDA, January 22, 2018.
  6. ^ Kotoka International Airport. Ghana Airports Company, 2017.