# List of the busiest airports in Tanzania

Tanzania's busiest airports is the list of top busiest airports across various aerodromes in the country. The tables below contain annual data published by the Tanzania Airports Authority on the busiest airports in Tanzania by total passenger traffic, aircraft movements and cargo handled.
The lists are presented in chronological order. The number of total passengers for an airport is measured in persons and includes any passenger that arrives at, departs from or is on a transit from that airport. The number of total aircraft movements is measured in airplane-times and includes all the takeoffs and landings of all kinds of aircraft in scheduled or charter conditions. The total cargo handled is expressed in metric tonnes and includes all the freight and mail that arrives at or departs from the airport.

## 2017 – 2018
### Passenger traffic

| Rank | Airport | City | Region | Number of Passengers FY 2018 | Number of Passengers FY 2017 | % Change | Rank Change |
| 1 | Julius Nyerere International Airport | Dar-es-salaam | Dar es Salaam | 2,417,090 | 2,385,456 | 1.32 | |
| 2 | Abeid Amani Karume International Airport | Zanzibar | Zanzibar | 1,406,300 | 1,229,999 | 14.33 | |
| 3 | Kilimanjaro International Airport | Kilimanjaro | Kilimanjaro | 897,708 | 832,895 | 7.78 | |
| 4 | Mwanza Airport | Mwanza | Mwanza | 399,054 | 398,102 | 0.23 | |
| 5 | Arusha Airport | Arusha | Arusha | 229,366 | 192,233 | 19.31 | |
| 6 | Songwe Airport | Mbeya | Mbeya | 114,863 | 118,884 | -3.38 | |
| 7 | Bukoba Airport | Bukoba | Kagera | 52,102 | 45,622 | 14.20 | 1 |
| 8 | Dodoma Airport | Dodoma | Dodoma | 47,396 | 31,605 | 49.96 | -1 |
| 9 | Lake Manyara Airport | Lake Manyara | Arusha | 41,075 | 35,547 | 15.55 | |
| 10 | Kigoma Airport | Kigoma | Kigoma | 33,459 | 28,444 | 17.63 | |
| 11 | Tanga Airport | Tanga | Tanga | 25,670 | 27,477 | -6.57 | 1 |
| 12 | Mafia Airport | Mafia Island | Pwani | 25,631 | 23,615 | 8.53 | 1 |
| 13 | Tabora Airport | Tabora | Tabora | 25,484 | 18,217 | 39.89 | -2 |
| 14 | Mtwara Airport | Mtwara | Mtwara | 20,710 | 24,462 | -15.33 | 1 |
| 15 | Iringa Airport | Iringa | Iringa | 10,013 | 11,137 | -10.09 | -1 |
| 16 | Musoma Airport | Musoma | Mara | 7,931 | 13,154 | -39.70 | 1 |
| 17 | Kahama Airstrip | Kahama | Shinyanga | 5,341 | 4,035 | 32.36 | -1 |
| 18 | Songea Airport | Songea | Ruvuma | 4,903 | 9,823 | -50.08 | 2 |
| 19 | Kasulu Airport | Kasulu | Kigoma | 3,788 | 1,671 | 126.69 | -1 |
| 20 | Loliondo Airstrip | Loliondo | Arusha | 2,450 | 2,417 | 1.36 | -1 |
| 21 | Moshi Airport | Moshi | Kilimanjaro | 2,394 | 2,260 | 5.92 | |
| 22 | Morogoro Airport | Morogoro | Morogoro | 2,084 | 1,557 | 33.84 | |
| Source: Tanzania Airport Authority ||||||||

### Aircraft Movements

| Rank | Airport | City | Region | Aircraft Movements FY 2018 | Aircraft Movements FY 2017 | % Change | Rank Change |
| 1 | Julius Nyerere International Airport | Dar-es-salaam | Dar es Salaam | 71,420 | 74,286 | -3.85 | |
| 2 | Abeid Amani Karume International Airport | Zanzibar | Zanzibar | 57,493 | 57,551 | -0.10 | |
| 3 | Arusha Airport | Arusha | Arusha | 27,048 | 23,392 | 15.63 | |
| 4 | Kilimanjaro International Airport | Kilimanjaro | Kilimanjaro | 25,271 | 21,706 | 16.42 | |
| 5 | Mwanza Airport | Mwanza | Mwanza | 11,788 | 13,095 | -9.98 | |
| 6 | Lake Manyara Airport | Lake Manyara | Arusha | 8,548 | 7,448 | 14.77 | |
| 7 | Dodoma Airport | Dodoma | Dodoma | 4,519 | 4,004 | 12.86 | 1 |
| 8 | Tanga Airport | Tanga | Tanga | 3,761 | 4,681 | -19.65 | -1 |
| 9 | Mafia Airport | Mafia Island | Pwani | 3,620 | 3,642 | -0.60 | |
| 10 | Musoma Airport | Musoma | Mara | 1,932 | 1,838 | 5.11 | 2 |
| 11 | Songwe Airport | Mbeya | Mbeya | 1,932 | 1,959 | -1.38 | |
| 12 | Iringa Airport | Iringa | Iringa | 1,733 | 1,808 | -4.15 | 1 |
| 13 | Tabora Airport | Tabora | Tabora | 1,687 | 1,572 | 7.32 | 1 |
| 14 | Bukoba Airport | Bukoba | Kagera | 1,568 | 2,302 | -31.88 | -4 |
| 15 | Moshi Airport | Moshi | Kilimanjaro | 1,488 | 1,006 | 47.91 | 1 |
| 16 | Kigoma Airport | Kigoma | Kigoma | 1,209 | 1,192 | 1.43 | -1 |
| 17 | Mtwara Airport | Mtwara | Mtwara | 886 | 972 | -8.84 | |
| 18 | Loliondo Airstrip | Loliondo | Arusha | 676 | 606 | 11.55 | |
| 19 | Morogoro Airport | Morogoro | Morogoro | 525 | 480 | 9.37 | |
| 20 | Kasulu Airport | Kasulu | Kigoma | 451 | 310 | 45.48 | 2 |
| 21 | Kahama Airstrip | Kahama | Shinyanga | 435 | 388 | 12.11 | |
| 22 | Songea Airport | Songea | Ruvuma | 374 | 452 | -17.25 | -2 |
| Source: Tanzania Airport Authority ||||||||

### Cargo Tonnage

| Rank | Airport | City | Region | Cargo Tonnage FY 2018 | Cargo Tonnage FY 2017 | % Change | Rank Change |
| 1 | Julius Nyerere International Airport | Dar-es-salaam | Dar es Salaam | 16,162 | 17,031 | -5.10 | |
| 2 | Kilimanjaro International Airport | Kilimanjaro | Kilimanjaro | 3,103 | 2,646 | 17.27 | 1 |
| 3 | Abeid Amani Karume International Airport | Zanzibar | Zanzibar | 2,366 | 4,462 | -46.97 | -1 |
| 4 | Mwanza Airport | Mwanza | Mwanza | 2,109 | 2,277 | -7.37 | |
| 5 | Songwe Airport | Mbeya | Mbeya | 747 | 649 | 15.10 | |
| 6 | Dodoma Airport | Dodoma | Dodoma | 156 | 7 | 2128.57 | 7 |
| 7 | Bukoba Airport | Bukoba | Kagera | 55 | 36 | 52.77 | |
| 8 | Arusha Airport | Arusha | Arusha | 55 | 25 | 120 | 1 |
| 9 | Kasulu Airport | Kasulu | Kigoma | 42 | 9 | 366.66 | 3 |
| 10 | Mtwara Airport | Mtwara | Mtwara | 41 | 36 | 13.88 | -3 |
| 11 | Kahama Airstrip | Kahama | Shinyanga | 36 | 19 | 89.47 | -1 |
| 12 | Songea Airport | Songera | Ruvuma | 23 | 5 | 360 | 2 |
| 13 | Iringa Airport | Iringa | Iringa | 18 | 1 | 1700 | 2 |
| 14 | Kigoma Airport | Kigoma | Kigoma | 12 | 12 | 0 | -3 |
| 15 | Musoma Airport | Musoma | Mara | 6 | 45 | -86.66 | -9 |
| 16 | Moshi Airport | Moshi | Kilimanjaro | 2 | 1 | 100 | -1 |
| 17 | Tabora Airport | Tabora | Tabora | 2 | 1 | 100 | -2 |
| Source: Tanzania Airport Authority ||||||||