What are the main airports in Cape Verde?

Amílcar Cabral International Airport (SID), Nelson Mandela International Airport (RAI), Aristides Pereira International Airport (BVC), Cesaria Evora International Airport (VXE), São Filipe Airport (SFL) and Preguiça Airport (SNE), by passengers a year in open data. The full list with ICAO codes is on this page.

Which is the busiest airport in Cape Verde?

Amílcar Cabral International Airport (SID), with 1.3 million passengers (Wikidata, 2024).

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Airports in Cape Verde

7 airports with scheduled flights, busiest first.

Cape Verde has 7 airports with scheduled passenger flights and an IATA code, 4 of them large. The busiest are Amílcar Cabral International Airport (SID, 1.3 million passengers, Wikidata, 2024), Nelson Mandela International Airport (RAI, 669,697 passengers, Wikidata, 2024) and Aristides Pereira International Airport (BVC, 617,595 passengers, Wikidata, 2024).

Code	Airport	Serves	Passengers / year	Routes
SID	Amílcar Cabral International Airport	Espargos	1,336,994	3
RAI	Nelson Mandela International Airport	Praia	669,697	3
BVC	Aristides Pereira International Airport	Boa Vista	617,595	—
VXE	Cesaria Evora International Airport	Mindelo	300,681	1
SFL	São Filipe Airport	São Filipe	59,264	—
SNE	Preguiça Airport	São Nicolau	15,342	—
MMO	Maio Airport	Porto Inglês	10,286	—

Busiest routes

Route	To	Distance	Passengers / year
LIS – RAI	Lisbon, Portugal	2,993 km	237,238
LIS – SID	Lisbon, Portugal	2,789 km	197,538
LIS – VXE	Lisbon, Portugal	2,884 km	107,733
PDL – RAI	Ponta Delgada, Portugal	2,536 km	29,121
LUX – SID	Luxembourg, Luxembourg	4,492 km	22,792
PVD – RAI	Providence, United States	5,462 km	4,819
REC – SID	Recife, Brazil	3,050 km	58

Questions

Cape Verde has 7 airports with scheduled passenger flights and an IATA code, 4 of them large airports (OurAirports, 14 October 2026). Airfields without airline service are not counted.