How many airports does Northern Mariana Islands have in this index?

This index retains 2 airport records for Northern Mariana Islands (2 large and 0 medium). It is a curated reference set with usable IATA/ICAO codes and coordinates, not a complete national aviation registry.

Which is the largest airport in Northern Mariana Islands?

Large-airport records appear first in this index. The top entries for Northern Mariana Islands include Rota International Airport (ROP), Tinian International Airport (TIQ). No quoted passenger-volume figure is attached to those records in the curated airport-facts file.

Which timezones span Northern Mariana Islands's airports?

Northern Mariana Islands's retained airport records sit across 2 IANA timezones from UTC+10:00 to UTC+10:00, an offset spread of 0.0 hours with no seasonal DST in the retained zones. Each airport stores its own IANA zone identifier for local-clock math.

Does Northern Mariana Islands have international airports?

Yes. The curated airport-facts file flags 2 records with an international-gateway role label in Northern Mariana Islands. The role tags are derived from OurAirports type plus airport naming; verify scheduled international service with the carrier before booking.

How does Northern Mariana Islands compare with regional peers for airport count?

Among same-continent peers with similar retained-record counts, Northern Mariana Islands has 2 records vs. Fiji (2), Papua New Guinea (2), Guam (1). The comparison covers only retained records on this site, not full national aviation inventories.

Country airport index

Airports in Northern Mariana Islands.

2 airportsPrimary zone: Pacific/Saipan

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.

Timezones in Northern Mariana Islands

Airport index methodology

How we calculate this: Airports are grouped by country code, then sorted with large airports first and named airports alphabetically inside each type. Local time uses each airport’s stored IANA timezone identifier. Passenger figures, hub-airline tags, and operational facts come from the per-airport curation file when available; absent figures are left blank rather than estimated.
Data sources: OurAirports for IATA/ICAO, coordinates, elevation, and airport type; IANA Time Zone Database for local-time rules; airport-shaped Wikipedia summaries for the curated facts file (passengers, runways, terminals, hub airlines, operator, year opened); hand-curated country dossier sources (FAA, CAAC, DGCA, Rosaviatsiya, IATA, national civil-aviation authorities) for the editorial dossier block where present; curated country records for country names and locale-safe slugs.
Update cadence: Airport country pages revalidate weekly. The OurAirports source CSV was last fetched 2026-04-25; the airport-facts snapshot was last generated 2026-05-21. This page currently represents 2 large airports rather than a complete national aviation registry.

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

Why this Northern Mariana Islands airport page is retained

10/12 signals

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

en.wikipedia.orgwikidata.orgourairports.comcnmiports.com

Traveler planning patterns

How to use Northern Mariana Islands airport data without overreading it

Country-specific caveats

Start with the gateway layer

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.

Keep airport-local time explicit

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.

Use codes for the search, city pages for context

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.

Treat schedules as live elsewhere

2 retained records carry a scheduled-service flag, but route availability, airline service, terminals, and disruption notices are not live here.

Watch holidays and local operating days

No holiday country page is attached here yet, so verify public holidays and local operating restrictions with country or airport authorities before travel.

Know what the passenger data covers

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

How the Northern Mariana Islands airport index is structured

This page adds country-level context around airport counts, code coverage, timezone spread, and city-clock handoffs. It is built from the retained airport dataset rather than a live airline or aviation registry feed.

Coverage pattern

Only 2 airport records are retained for Northern Mariana Islands, mapped across 2 localities — a deliberately small set (2 large and 0 medium; 2 large airports) covering the airports most likely to anchor a city clock or travel check.

Code reliability

Every retained Northern Mariana Islands record carries both an IATA and an ICAO code (2 of each), so passenger-facing and aviation lookups resolve consistently across the set.

Timezone spread

Airports in Northern Mariana Islands are not on one clock — they span Pacific/Guam, Pacific/Saipan, led by Pacific/Guam (1) and Pacific/Saipan (1). Read each airport's stored zone directly rather than assuming a national offset. 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.

Major airport examples

Standout anchors here include Rota International Airport (ROP) in Rota Island and Tinian International Airport (TIQ) in Tinian Island. Large airports lead the list because they are the most reliable hooks for travelers, city clocks, and cross-border time checks.

City-clock handoff

Airport records here hand off to indexable city pages such as Rota Island (ROP) and Tinian Island (TIQ). Handoffs are restricted to vetted city pages so the airport index does not spend crawl budget on thin local URLs.

Offset range

Airport timezone records in Northern Mariana Islands span 2 IANA zones from UTC+10:00 to UTC+10:00, an offset spread of 0.0 hours. Treat each airport's stored zone as authoritative for local clock math instead of assuming a single national offset.

International gateway count

2 retained records carry an international-gateway role label in the curated airport facts for Northern Mariana Islands. Role labels are derived from OurAirports type plus airport naming; verify scheduled international service with the carrier before booking.

Regional peer comparison

Northern Mariana Islands has 2 retained airport records vs. Fiji 2, Papua New Guinea 2, Guam 1 in the same continent. This is a structural comparison of retained-record counts, not an audit of national aviation policy or fleet size.

Operational depth

Across the retained Northern Mariana Islands set we have 2 curated runway records and 2 airports flagged with scheduled service. Operational facts come from the Wikipedia-derived airport-facts curation, which is sparse for smaller airports and not a substitute for the airport authority's own data.

Traveler boundary: use these records for timezone orientation and airport discovery. Verify live operations, route availability, terminal status, and NOTAM-sensitive details with official airport, airline, or aviation sources.

Country aviation profile

Aviation profile snapshot for Northern Mariana Islands

Curated airport facts

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

Records flagged with an international-gateway role label.

Scheduled service

2 / 2

Records with the OurAirports “scheduled service” flag set.

Runway records

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

Leading retained airports and their source signals

2 representative rows

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 International Airport

Rota Island · ROP · Pacific/Guam

PGRO

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

en.wikipedia.orgwikidata.orgourairports.com

Tinian International Airport

Tinian Island · TIQ · Pacific/Saipan

PGWT

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

en.wikipedia.orgwikidata.orgourairports.comcnmiports.com

Time-zone span

Airport timezone offsets across Northern Mariana Islands

2 IANA zones

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

Northern Mariana Islands vs. Oceania peers

Retained-record counts

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	Large / medium	IANA zones
Northern Mariana Islands	2	2 / 0	2
Fiji	2	2 / 0	1
Papua New Guinea	2	2 / 0	1
Guam	1	1 / 0	1

Country aviation dossier

Editorial context for Northern Mariana Islands aviation

Hand-curated

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.

Sources

Last verified 2026-05-11 · manually curated. Figures quoted in this paragraph are point-in-time; treat the linked sources as authoritative.

Frequently asked

Northern Mariana Islands airport questions

How many airports does Northern Mariana Islands have in this index?: This index retains 2 airport records for Northern Mariana Islands (2 large and 0 medium). It is a curated reference set with usable IATA/ICAO codes and coordinates, not a complete national aviation registry.
Which is the largest airport in Northern Mariana Islands?: Large-airport records appear first in this index. The top entries for Northern Mariana Islands include Rota International Airport (ROP), Tinian International Airport (TIQ). No quoted passenger-volume figure is attached to those records in the curated airport-facts file.
Which timezones span Northern Mariana Islands's airports?: Northern Mariana Islands's retained airport records sit across 2 IANA timezones from UTC+10:00 to UTC+10:00, an offset spread of 0.0 hours with no seasonal DST in the retained zones. Each airport stores its own IANA zone identifier for local-clock math.
Does Northern Mariana Islands have international airports?: Yes. The curated airport-facts file flags 2 records with an international-gateway role label in Northern Mariana Islands. The role tags are derived from OurAirports type plus airport naming; verify scheduled international service with the carrier before booking.
How does Northern Mariana Islands compare with regional peers for airport count?: Among same-continent peers with similar retained-record counts, Northern Mariana Islands has 2 records vs. Fiji (2), Papua New Guinea (2), Guam (1). The comparison covers only retained records on this site, not full national aviation inventories.

Country overview

Airport coverage for Northern Mariana Islands

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

Airport localities

Timezone records

2 zones

Time-zone planning

Use the airport clock for travel math

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.

Pacific/Guam1 airport

Pacific/Saipan1 airport

Codes, clocks, and city mapping

How to read the Northern Mariana Islands airport index

IATA + ICAO reference

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.

Major city to airport links

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.

Rota Island

1 linked airport

city clock

ROP Rota International Airport (Pacific/Guam)

Tinian Island

1 linked airport

city clock

TIQ Tinian International Airport (Pacific/Saipan)

Major airport list

Key airports in Northern Mariana Islands

Large airports first

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.

Rota International Airport

Rota Island

ROP

large airport · Pacific/Guam

Tinian International Airport

Tinian Island

TIQ

large airport · Pacific/Saipan

Route-planning cues

When this airport index is useful

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.

City coverage