Longest Airport Runways in Malawi

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

📅 2026📏 metres10 entries🇲🇼 See all of this country’s rankings →

All entries · 10

1,500 metres2,000 metres2,500 metres3,000 metres3,500 metres

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

Kamuzu International AirportLumbadzi · 11,614 ft · ASP

3,540 m

Chileka International AirportBlantyre · 7,628 ft · ASP

2,325 m

Old Lilongwe AirportLilongwe · 4,462 ft · ASP

1,360 m

Mzuzu AirportMzuzu · 4,291 ft · BIT

1,308 m

Karonga AirportKaronga · 4,200 ft · ASP

1,280 m

Nchalo Sucoma AirportNchalo · 4,100 ft · Asphalt

1,250 m

Zomba AirportZomba · 4,100 ft · ASP

1,250 m

Dwangwa AirportDwangwa · 3,980 ft

1,213 m

Kasungu AirportKasungu · 3,937 ft · ASP

1,200 m

Club Makokola AirportClub Makokola · 3,800 ft

1,158 m

Highlights

Within Malawi, Kamuzu International Airport ranks first in 2026 with 3,540 m, followed by Chileka International Airport (2,325 m) and Old Lilongwe Airport (1,360 m).

Kamuzu International Airport is 1.5 times higher than Chileka International Airport, the runner-up.

Across 10 entries, values run from 3,540 m (Kamuzu International Airport) to 1,158 m (Club Makokola Airport), with a median of 1,265 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.