Yaoundé-Nsimalen International Airport

Yaoundé, Cameroon · Africa

Cameroon's capital airport: a single 1991 terminal about 22 km south of Yaoundé, run by Aéroports du Cameroun. It handled 816,164 passengers in 2024, about 70% of the non-transit traffic international or regional. Air France flies to Paris, Brussels Airlines to Brussels, Turkish to Istanbul, Ethiopian to Addis Ababa and Royal Air Maroc to Casablanca. ASKY, Air Côte d'Ivoire, Afrijet and Camair-Co cover Africa and domestic routes. Expect a basic terminal with modernisation works, paid ADC VIP salons and taxi-only ground transport.

• Typical security

  20 min

  editorial average, not live
• Best way to city
  About 30–45 min (estimate)

  Official airport taxi (TaxiGo roll-out)
• Lounges
  3
• On time
  70%

  of departures
• Terminals
  1

  passenger terminal (opened 1991); modernisation of check-in, baggage and border-police areas under way from December 2025
• Passengers / year

  816,164 (2024, Ministère des Transports Annuaire Statistique 2025, from CCAA data), including 184,525 transit