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Map: OpenStreetMap contributors, captured 20 Oct 2026. North is up and the drawing is simplified. Each runway is labelled at its ends.
Location
Kano, Nigeria
ICAO code
DNKN
IATA code
KAN
Elevation
1,562 ft
Longest runway
10,831 ft (06/24)
Runways
2
Size class
Large
Position
12.0456, 8.5236
About DNKN
Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport (KAN) is a large airport in Kano, Nigeria, with the ICAO code DNKN. Its two runways are 06/24 and 05/23. The longer one, 06/24, is 10,831 ft. All of them have hard surfaces. The OpenStreetMap layout shows 40 taxiway segments, 3 aprons and 4 terminal outlines. In the route snapshot of 14 Oct 2026, 12 airlines have 27 routes through DNKN. Its most frequent links are Abuja (ABV), Lagos (LOS) and Addis Ababa (ADD).
Runways
Runways, longest first
Runway
Length
Width
Surface
Lights
06 / 24
10,831 ft
197 ft
Hard
Lit
05 / 23
8,040 ft
148 ft
Hard
Lit
Runway idents and sizes from OurAirports. The runway headings in the source do not always match the idents, so only the idents are shown.
Scheduled routes
Published route data from the snapshot of 14 Oct 2026. These are standing schedules, not live flights, and they can be out of date. Counts are routes in that snapshot.
Airlines flying here
Ethiopian ETH5 routes
EgyptAir MSR2 routes
Saudia SVA2 routes
KLM KLM1 route
Middle East MEA1 route
Qatar QTR1 route
Also flying here, shown by airline code: APO, NGL, NUA, ACP, BDR, RAN.
Sources: airport and runway data from OurAirports (public domain). Map data from OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Routes from Virtual Radar Server standing data (CC0), snapshot of 14 Oct 2026.