Longest Airport Runways in Sri Lanka

Airports in Sri Lanka ranked by the length of their longest open runway.

📅 2026📏 metres13 entries🇱🇰 See all of this country’s rankings →

All entries · 13

1,000 metres2,000 metres3,000 metres

Every dot is one entry, placed by its value (metres); the vertical bar marks each row’s median.

Mattala Rajapaksa International AirportMattala · 11,483 ft · Asphalt

3,500 m

Bandaranaike International Colombo AirportColombo · 10,991 ft · ASP

3,350 m

China Bay AirportTrincomalee · 7,850 ft · ASP

2,393 m

Colombo Ratmalana International AirportColombo · 6,013 ft · ASP

1,833 m

Sigiriya Air Force BaseSigiriya · 5,925 ft · ASP

1,806 m

Batticaloa International AirportBatticaloa · 5,118 ft · ASP

1,560 m

Vavuniya AirportVavuniya · 5,060 ft · ASP

1,542 m

Anuradhapura AirportAnuradhapura · 4,876 ft · ASP

1,486 m

Jaffna International AirportJaffna · 4,593 ft · ASP

1,400 m

Weerawila AirportWeerawila · 4,000 ft · ASP

1,219 m

Ampara AirportAmpara · 3,600 ft · ASP

1,097 m

Katukurunda Air Force BaseKalutara · 3,200 ft · ASP

975 m

Koggala AirportGalle · 3,142 ft · ASP

958 m

Highlights

Within Sri Lanka, Mattala Rajapaksa International Airport ranks first in 2026 with 3,500 m, followed by Bandaranaike International Colombo Airport (3,350 m) and China Bay Airport (2,393 m).

Across 13 entries, values run from 3,500 m (Mattala Rajapaksa International Airport) to 958 m (Koggala Airport), with a median of 1,542 m.

Source: OurAirports, airports and runway datasets, 2026. Unit: metres.

Source: OurAirports, airports and runway datasets · Public domain (OurAirports) · fetched Oct 17, 2026 — Airport and runway records are community maintained and released to the public domain; no guarantee of accuracy is made. Only active small, medium, and large airports are included.