Airports and Airfields With the Longest Runways in the World
About This Dataset
Airports and Airfields With the Longest Runways in the World
This chart ranks airports and airfields by the length of their longest runway in metres, counting each one once. It includes civil airports, military air bases and test airfields; landing strips the source lists separately, such as White Sands Space Harbor, are not included.
Analysis
Shigatse Peace Airport and Ulyanovsk Vostochny Airport share the top spot with runways of 5,000 metres. 5 of the 17 airports shown are in the United States. Every runway shown is at least 4,572 metres long.
Key Findings
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Shigatse Peace Airport and Ulyanovsk Vostochny Airport are level at the top on 5,000 Longest runway length (metres) in 2026.
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Average Longest runway length (metres) in 2026: 4,748 · median: 4,725.
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Gap in 2026: Shigatse Peace Airport is 1.1× larger than Vandenberg Space Force Base.
Data Insights
Numbers, trends & sources behind this chart
Methodology & source
- Data source
- Wikipedia - List of longest runways
- Coverage
- 17 entities · 2026 · 17 observations
- Measure
- Longest runway length (metres)
- Last updated
- 10 September 2026
- Compiled by
- The ANYSTAT team, from the source above
How the figures are calculated
- Values are shown as reported by the source. Nothing is rescaled, rebased or converted — the only changes are thousand separators and decimals shown to two places.
- Entities are ranked highest-first on their value in 2026.
Data Sources & References
All external sources cited in this dataset
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