Western Africa
Western Africa has 39 airports with published data across 15 countries. No regional ranking is published: too few of its countries are measured the same way to compare them fairly.
No regional ranking on this page
A regional table has to fix one comparability level, and too few of this region's countries are measured the same way to compare them fairly. The country pages below each carry their own ranking.
Every airport in this region
39All 39 published airports here, not only the ones the table above can rank. 2 have official monthly figures; 31 are counted daily from flight boards. The two are measured differently, so this list does not rank them against each other — each row says how its own figure was measured.
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| Airport | Country | Figure | How it is measured |
|---|---|---|---|
| Banjul International Airport | Gambia | 116 | aircraft movements · August 2026 · movements observed by open ADS-B receivers, not an official count |
| Blaise Diagne International Airport | Senegal | 1,920 | aircraft movements · August 2026 · movements observed by open ADS-B receivers, not an official count |
| Ahmed Sékou Touré International Airport | Guinea | — | |
| Akanu Ibiam International Airport | Nigeria | 221 | scheduled flights · counted daily · 13 days |
| Amílcar Cabral International Airport | Cape Verde | — | |
| Aristides Pereira International Airport | Cape Verde | 144 | scheduled flights · counted daily · 13 days |
| Asaba International Airport | Nigeria | 259 | scheduled flights · counted daily · 13 days |
| Benin Airport | Nigeria | 306 | scheduled flights · counted daily · 13 days |
| Bobo Dioulasso Airport | Burkina Faso | 20 | scheduled flights · counted daily · 7 days |
| Cotonou Cadjehoun International Airport | Benin | 276 | scheduled flights · counted daily · 13 days |
| Félix-Houphouët-Boigny International Airport | Côte d’Ivoire | 970 | scheduled flights · counted daily · 13 days |
| Gao International Airport | Mali | 2 | scheduled flights · counted daily · 1 days |
| Kaduna International Airport | Nigeria | 22 | scheduled flights · counted daily · 11 days |
| Kayes Dag Dag Airport | Mali | — | |
| Kotoka International Airport | Ghana | 1,704 | scheduled flights · counted daily · 13 days |
| Lomé–Tokoin International Airport | Togo | 560 | scheduled flights · counted daily · 13 days |
| Lungi International Airport | Sierra Leone | — | |
| Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport | Nigeria | 502 | scheduled flights · counted daily · 13 days |
| Modibo Keita International Airport | Mali | 347 | scheduled flights · counted daily · 13 days |
| Murtala Muhammed International Airport | Nigeria | 1,645 | scheduled flights · counted daily · 12 days |
| Nelson Mandela International Airport | Cape Verde | — | |
| Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport | Nigeria | 3,004 | scheduled flights · counted daily · 13 days |
| Nouadhibou International Airport | Mauritania | 50 | scheduled flights · counted daily · 13 days |
| Nouakchott–Oumtounsy International Airport | Mauritania | — | |
| Ouagadougou Thomas Sankara International Airport | Burkina Faso | 301 | scheduled flights · counted daily · 13 days |
| Port Harcourt International Airport | Nigeria | 709 | scheduled flights · counted daily · 13 days |
| Preguiça Airport | Cape Verde | 3 | scheduled flights · counted daily · 2 days |
| Prempeh I International Airport | Ghana | 336 | scheduled flights · counted daily · 13 days |
| RAF Ascension Island | St. Helena | 9 | scheduled flights · counted daily · 7 days |
| Roberts International Airport | Liberia | 40 | scheduled flights · counted daily · 4 days |
| Sadiq Abubakar III International Airport | Nigeria | 34 | scheduled flights · counted daily · 4 days |
| Saint Helena International Airport | St. Helena | 4 | scheduled flights · counted daily · 3 days |
| Sam Mbakwe International Cargo Airport | Nigeria | 79 | scheduled flights · counted daily · 4 days |
| San Pedro Airport | Côte d’Ivoire | 4 | scheduled flights · counted daily · 2 days |
| Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa Bauchi State International Airport | Nigeria | 18 | scheduled flights · counted daily · 7 days |
| Sunyani Airport | Ghana | 13 | scheduled flights · counted daily · 9 days |
| São Filipe Airport | Cape Verde | 3 | scheduled flights · counted daily · 2 days |
| Tazadit Airport | Mauritania | 8 | scheduled flights · counted daily · 4 days |
| Warri Airport | Nigeria | 62 | scheduled flights · counted daily · 4 days |
Countries
15- Nigeria 12
- Cape Verde 5
- Ghana 3
- Mali 3
- Mauritania 3
- Côte d’Ivoire 2
- Burkina Faso 2
- St. Helena 2
- Liberia 1
- Sierra Leone 1
- Senegal 1
- Guinea 1
- Gambia 1
- Togo 1
- Benin 1