Retained scope
compact gateway set
Northern Mariana Islands has 2 retained large/medium airport records (2 large, 0 medium) across 2 IANA zones.
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Country airport index
This page lists 2 retained airport records in our curated Northern Mariana Islands airport catalog with IATA and ICAO codes, city names, and local timezone information. Airport records come from OurAirports and timezone rules come from the IANA database. Click any airport for coordinates, elevation, the current local time, and nearby airports.
Content reviewed Apr 30, 2026. This airport index is reviewed as a curated reference surface. It does not claim complete aviation coverage for Northern Mariana Islands; it lists 2 retained airport records (2 large airports) across Pacific/Guam, Pacific/Saipan.
Coverage note. This is an airport-reference index for timezone and travel planning. It focuses on retained large and medium airport records with usable codes and coordinates, not every runway, heliport, closed facility, or local landing strip. Airport service levels, terminal operations, route availability, and codes can change; verify with the airport, airline, NOTAM, or official aviation source before travel.
Timezone note. Airport timezone records can be more granular than the country profile. Pacific/Guam appears in the retained airport records but not in the country-level timezone list, so use the airport record for local-time calculations.
Country airport evidence
This page is classified as a compact gateway set. The evidence score comes from static source coverage: codes, airport facts, official domains, city-clock handoffs, IANA zones, operational facts, and country dossiers where present.
Retained scope
compact gateway set
Northern Mariana Islands has 2 retained large/medium airport records (2 large, 0 medium) across 2 IANA zones.
Code and entity coverage
2 IATA, 2 ICAO
2 retained records have airport-facts rows; 0 cite official airport domains and 2 carry Wikidata entity links.
Traffic and operation facts
0 passenger rows
No retained record quotes passenger-volume facts yet; operational depth comes from type, code, timezone, runway, source, and scheduled-service fields where available.
Timezone pattern
2 airport zones
Airport clocks span UTC+10:00 to UTC+10:00, so this country page must keep airport-local time rather than assuming Pacific/Saipan.
Verification boundary
7 source URLs
Visible source hosts include en.wikipedia.org, wikidata.org, ourairports.com, cnmiports.com. These support identity and static facts, not live routes, terminal assignments, NOTAMs, or airline schedules.
Editorial status
manual dossier attached
Manual dossier sources are attached for country-level aviation context; point-in-time statements still defer to the linked authorities.
Source hosts seen in retained airport facts
Traveler planning patterns
Rota International Airport (ROP) is the first retained airport to check for Northern Mariana Islands; then scan the 2 large and 0 medium records for regional alternates.
Do not assume one country clock: retained airport zones span UTC+10:00 to UTC+10:00. That matters for overnight arrivals, missed-connection buffers, and airport pickup times.
2 airport records link onward to vetted city-time pages, so a code lookup can become a local-clock, daylight, holiday, and meeting-time check.
2 retained records carry a scheduled-service flag, but route availability, airline service, terminals, and disruption notices are not live here.
No holiday country page is attached here yet, so verify public holidays and local operating restrictions with country or airport authorities before travel.
No retained airport quotes passenger-volume facts yet, so the page avoids traffic rankings and leans on source-backed type, code, timezone, and city context.
Airport coverage patterns
Country aviation profile
These numbers aggregate the curated airport-facts file across this country’s retained records. Missing fields mean the curation file does not quote that figure; they are not zero-imputed.
International gateways
2
Records flagged with an international-gateway role label.
Scheduled service
2 / 2
Records with the OurAirports “scheduled service” flag set.
Runway records
2
Sum of curated runway counts where the facts file quotes a number.
Curated passenger coverage
0 / 2
Curated passenger figures are not yet attached to retained records here.
Gateway evidence matrix
The rows below show why the top airport records are useful beyond a country list: role labels, code identity, timezone, scheduled-service flags, passenger/runway facts where quoted, and the source hosts that back static airport identity.
Rota Island · ROP · Pacific/Guam
Rota International Airport, also known as Benjamin Taisacan Manglona International Airport, is a public airport located on Rota Island in the United States Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI), near the village of Sinapalo.
Operations
scheduled service; 1 runway; longest runway 6,000 ft / 1,829 m
Source signals
Wikipedia summary; Wikidata entity; 4 source labels; 16 coverage signals
Tinian Island · TIQ · Pacific/Saipan
The airport serves Tinian and connects into the CNMI airport network managed by the Commonwealth Ports Authority.
Operations
scheduled service; 1 runway; small CPA-managed passenger terminal terminals; longest runway 8,600 ft / 2,621 m
Source signals
Wikipedia summary; Wikidata entity; 5 source labels; 19 coverage signals
Time-zone span
Northern Mariana Islands’s retained airport records span 2 IANA zones from UTC+10:00 to UTC+10:00 — an offset spread of 0.0 hours. No zone here observes a seasonal DST shift in the IANA database.
Pacific/Guam
UTC+10:00 · ChST
1 airport
Pacific/Saipan
UTC+10:00 · ChST
1 airport
Regional peer comparison
Peers are picked by geographic proximity (same continent) and similarity of retained-record counts. Comparison is structural — it does not audit fleet size, national aviation policy, or passenger traffic.
| Country | Airports |
|---|---|
| Northern Mariana Islands | 2 |
| Fiji | 2 |
| Papua New Guinea | 2 |
| Guam | 1 |
Country aviation dossier
The Northern Mariana Islands page currently retains Rota (ROP) and Tinian (TIQ), two island airports that matter for inter-island travel and US-Pacific aviation context. Saipan is the better-known territory gateway, so this retained set should be read as a curated catalog slice, not a complete airport registry. The islands use Chamorro Standard Time (UTC+10:00) year-round, which makes date-line and overnight connections important when comparing with the US mainland, Japan, Korea, and Guam. The Commonwealth Ports Authority is the key local operator reference.
Last verified 2026-05-11 · manually curated. Figures quoted in this paragraph are point-in-time; treat the linked sources as authoritative.
Frequently asked
Reference fields include Northern Mariana Islands's ISO codes, airport slugs and IATA codes, IANA timezone identifiers, top-airport passenger labels, hub-airline tags, and peer-country slugs.
Country overview
The retained catalog currently includes 2 airport records in 2 airport cities or localities. Large airports are shown first because they are usually the most useful entry points for flight planning, timezone checks, and nearby-city lookup.
Retained records
2
Airport localities
2
Timezone records
2 zones
Time-zone planning
For overnight flights, connections near daylight-saving transitions, and cross-border itineraries, use the airport’s IANA timezone instead of assuming every airport follows the country’s primary zone.
Codes, clocks, and city mapping
IATA coverage
2 codes
Useful for passenger-facing flight searches, tickets, airport boards, and quick route lookup.
ICAO coverage
2 codes
Useful for aviation references, flight tracking, weather briefings, and operational documents.
Airport mix
2 large / 0 medium
Gateway airports are prioritized first, but regional airports remain useful for local clock checks.
DST travel risk
Multi-zone
Recheck local airport time around overnight arrivals, daylight-saving weekends, and cross-border connections.
These rows connect retained airport records to city-time pages, so a reader can move from a flight code to the local clock, nearby planning context, and meeting-time checks.
Major airport list
These entries are pulled from the same retained catalog as the full table below. Use them as a starting point for local time, code lookup, and nearby-city planning, then verify route and terminal details with the airport or airline.
Route-planning cues
Start with gateway airports
2 large airports
Use large-airport entries first for broad trip planning, then scan medium airports for regional options.
Check the local clock
2 timezones
Compare airport zones before overnight arrivals, early departures, or daylight-saving changes.
Move to city context
2 linked airports
Linked city pages help turn an airport timezone into a local clock for meetings and ground plans.
Boundary: this page supports code lookup, timezone checks, and city planning. It does not verify active routes, terminals, flight schedules, border rules, or operating notices.
Example flight and gate labels are generated for display; local-time values use the timezone records shown on the page.
| IATA | Name |
|---|---|
| ROP | Rota International Airport |
| TIQ | Tinian International Airport |
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