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Bobo Dioulasso Airport (BOY)

Bobo Dioulasso, Houet Province, Burkina Faso

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Bobo Dioulasso Airport is a large airport serving Bobo Dioulasso, in Houet Province, Burkina Faso. It has scheduled airline flights. Its IATA code, the three letters printed on tickets and baggage tags, is BOY.

Key facts

IATA code
BOY
ICAO code
DFOO
City
Bobo Dioulasso
State or region
Houet Province
Country
Burkina Faso
Kind
Large airport
Coordinates
11.1601° N, 4.3310° W
Elevation
461 m (1,511 ft)
Runways
1
Longest runway
3,300 m (10,826 ft)

Airport codes

On a ticket or a baggage tag, BOY means Bobo Dioulasso Airport. Pilots and air traffic controllers use a different, four-letter ICAO code: DFOO. ICAO codes that begin with D belong to West Africa. How the two kinds of code differ.

Where it is

The airport lies at 11.1601° N, 4.3310° W. It stands 461 metres (1,511 feet) above sea level.

Local time

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Time zone Africa/Ouagadougou, taken from the nearest town in the data. Flight times on tickets are always in the local time of each airport.

Runways

Bobo Dioulasso Airport has 1 runway in the data. The longest is 3,300 metres (10,826 feet). A runway of this length can take the largest long-distance aircraft.

RunwayLengthWidthSurfaceLights
06/243,300 m 10,826 ft45 mAsphaltYes

The numbers in a runway name give its compass direction. How runway numbers work.

Nearest airports with scheduled flights

AirportCodeDistance
Korhogo AirportKorhogo, Côte d'IvoireHGO238 km
Ouagadougou Thomas Sankara International AirportOuagadougouOUA334 km
Mopti AirportSévaré, MaliMZI374 km
Bouaké AirportBouaké, Côte d'IvoireBYK389 km
Yakubu Tali International AirportTamale, GhanaTML419 km

Distance to major airports

ToDistanceRough flying time
Delhi (DEL)India8,588 km10 h 50 min
Mumbai (BOM)India8,274 km10 h 30 min
Dubai (DXB)United Arab Emirates6,447 km8 h 15 min
London Heathrow (LHR)United Kingdom4,496 km5 h 55 min
New York JFK (JFK)United States7,473 km9 h 30 min
Los Angeles (LAX)United States11,447 km14 h 15 min
Singapore (SIN)Singapore11,974 km14 h 55 min
Tokyo Haneda (HND)Japan13,598 km16 h 55 min
Sydney (SYD)Australia16,465 km20 h 20 min

Distances are the shortest path over the globe, worked out from the coordinates. Flying times are rough estimates for a direct jet flight. They do not mean that a direct flight exists. Work out the distance to any airport.

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