Country airport index

Airports in Pakistan.

6 airportsPrimary zone: Asia/Karachi

This page lists 6 retained airport records in our curated Pakistan 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 Pakistan; it lists 6 retained airport records (6 large airports) across Asia/Karachi.

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.

Country airport evidence

Why this Pakistan airport page is retained

11/12 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

Pakistan has 6 retained large/medium airport records (6 large, 0 medium) across 1 IANA zone.

Code and entity coverage

6 IATA, 6 ICAO

6 retained records have airport-facts rows; 6 cite official airport domains and 6 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

single airport-timezone cluster

The retained airport set resolves to one dominant local-clock pattern, but each airport still stores its own IANA identifier for DST-safe calculations.

Verification boundary

24 source URLs

Visible source hosts include islamabadairport.com.pk, en.wikipedia.org, wikidata.org, ourairports.com, karachiairport.com.pk, lahoreairport.com.pk, faisalabadairport.com.pk, multaninternationalairport.com.pk. 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

islamabadairport.com.pken.wikipedia.orgwikidata.orgourairports.comkarachiairport.com.pklahoreairport.com.pkfaisalabadairport.com.pkmultaninternationalairport.com.pk

Traveler planning patterns

How to use Pakistan airport data without overreading it

Country-specific caveats

Start with the gateway layer

Allama Iqbal International Airport (LHE) is the first retained airport to check for Pakistan; then scan the 6 large and 0 medium records for regional alternates.

Keep airport-local time explicit

The retained airport set behaves like a single local-clock cluster, but the airport-specific IANA zone still matters around DST transitions and imported calendar events.

Use codes for the search, city pages for context

4 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

6 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 Pakistan 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 6 airport records are retained for Pakistan, mapped across 6 localities — a deliberately small set (6 large and 0 medium; 6 large airports) covering the airports most likely to anchor a city clock or travel check.

Code reliability

Every retained Pakistan record carries both an IATA and an ICAO code (6 of each), so passenger-facing and aviation lookups resolve consistently across the set.

Timezone spread

Every retained airport in Pakistan resolves to Asia/Karachi (6), so the country's airport clocks move together and a single offset check covers the whole set.

Major airport examples

Standout anchors here include Allama Iqbal International Airport (LHE) in Lahore, Bacha Khan International Airport (PEW) in Peshawar, Faisalabad International Airport (LYP) in Faisalabad, and Islamabad International Airport (ISB) in Attock. 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 Faisalabad (LYP), Karachi (KHI), Lahore (LHE), and Peshawar (PEW). Handoffs are restricted to vetted city pages so the airport index does not spend crawl budget on thin local URLs.

International gateway count

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

Regional peer comparison

Pakistan has 6 retained airport records vs. Iran 6, Taiwan 6, Vietnam 6 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 Pakistan set we have 10 curated runway records and 6 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.

Editorial dossier

Pakistan's retained airport catalog covers six large international fields: Islamabad (ISB), Karachi Jinnah (KHI), Lahore Allama Iqbal (LHE), Faisalabad (LYP), Multan (MUX), and Peshawar Bacha Khan (PEW). The network is useful for Gulf labor travel, domestic trunk routes, and cargo links around Karachi and Lahore; all listed airports sit on Pakistan Standard Time (UTC+05:00) with no daylight-saving switch. The Pakistan Civil Aviation Authority is the sector regulator and airport-services reference point, while Pakistan International Airlines, Airblue, SereneAir, and Fly Jinnah form the main local scheduled-carrier layer.
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 Pakistan

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

6

Records flagged with an international-gateway role label.

Scheduled service

6 / 6

Records with the OurAirports “scheduled service” flag set.

Runway records

10

Sum of curated runway counts where the facts file quotes a number.

Curated passenger coverage

0 / 6

Curated passenger figures are not yet attached to retained records here.

Gateway evidence matrix

Leading retained airports and their source signals

6 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.

Allama Iqbal International Airport

Lahore · LHE · Asia/Karachi

OPLA

OurAirports classifies LHE as a large airport with scheduled service; the airport name and codes identify it as an international gateway for Lahore.

Operations

scheduled service; 2 runways; longest runway 11,024 ft / 3,360 m

Source signals

official site; Wikipedia summary; Wikidata entity; 4 source labels; 18 coverage signals

lahoreairport.com.pken.wikipedia.orgwikidata.orgourairports.com

Bacha Khan International Airport

Peshawar · PEW · Asia/Karachi

OPPS

OurAirports classifies PEW as a large airport with scheduled service; the airport name and codes identify it as an international gateway for Peshawar.

Operations

scheduled service; 1 runway; longest runway 9,000 ft / 2,743 m

Source signals

official site; Wikipedia summary; Wikidata entity; 4 source labels; 16 coverage signals

peshawarairport.com.pken.wikipedia.orgwikidata.orgourairports.com

Faisalabad International Airport

Faisalabad · LYP · Asia/Karachi

OPFA

Faisalabad International Airport is an international airport and standby Pakistan Air Force military base situated on Jhang Road, 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) southwest of the city centre of Faisalabad, in the Punjab province of Pakistan.

Operations

scheduled service; 2 runways; longest runway 9,324 ft / 2,842 m

Source signals

official site; Wikipedia summary; Wikidata entity; 4 source labels; 18 coverage signals

faisalabadairport.com.pken.wikipedia.orgwikidata.orgourairports.com

Islamabad International Airport

Attock · ISB · Asia/Karachi

OPIS

It is located 25 km (16 mi) south-west of Islamabad, and is directly connected to the Lahore and Peshawar motorways as well to the capital city Islamabad via Srinagar Highway.

Operations

scheduled service; 2 runways; longest runway 12,001 ft / 3,658 m

Source signals

official site; Wikipedia summary; Wikidata entity; 4 source labels; 18 coverage signals

islamabadairport.com.pken.wikipedia.orgwikidata.orgourairports.com

Jinnah International Airport

Karachi · KHI · Asia/Karachi

OPKC

OurAirports classifies KHI as a large airport with scheduled service; the airport name and codes identify it as an international gateway for Karachi.

Operations

scheduled service; 2 runways; longest runway 11,155 ft / 3,400 m

Source signals

official site; Wikipedia summary; Wikidata entity; 4 source labels; 18 coverage signals

karachiairport.com.pken.wikipedia.orgwikidata.orgourairports.com

Multan International Airport

Multan · MUX · Asia/Karachi

OPMT

Multan International Airport is an international airport located 4 km west of the city of Multan, Pakistan.

Operations

scheduled service; 1 runway; longest runway 12,353 ft / 3,765 m

Source signals

official site; Wikipedia summary; Wikidata entity; 4 source labels; 19 coverage signals

multaninternationalairport.com.pken.wikipedia.orgwikidata.orgourairports.com

Time-zone span

Single-zone airport clock for Pakistan

All retained airport records resolve to one IANA timezone (Asia/Karachi, UTC+05:00 PKT no DST). Local-clock math is simpler here than in multi-zone countries, but the airport’s stored IANA identifier is still the authoritative reference for DST transition weekends.

Regional peer comparison

Pakistan vs. Asia 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.

CountryAirports
Pakistan6
Iran6
Taiwan6
Vietnam6

Country aviation dossier

Editorial context for Pakistan aviation

Hand-curated

Pakistan's retained airport catalog covers six large international fields: Islamabad (ISB), Karachi Jinnah (KHI), Lahore Allama Iqbal (LHE), Faisalabad (LYP), Multan (MUX), and Peshawar Bacha Khan (PEW). The network is useful for Gulf labor travel, domestic trunk routes, and cargo links around Karachi and Lahore; all listed airports sit on Pakistan Standard Time (UTC+05:00) with no daylight-saving switch. The Pakistan Civil Aviation Authority is the sector regulator and airport-services reference point, while Pakistan International Airlines, Airblue, SereneAir, and Fly Jinnah form the main local scheduled-carrier layer.

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

Frequently asked

Pakistan airport questions

How many airports does Pakistan have in this index?
This index retains 6 airport records for Pakistan (6 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 Pakistan?
Large-airport records appear first in this index. The top entries for Pakistan include Allama Iqbal International Airport (LHE), Bacha Khan International Airport (PEW), Faisalabad International Airport (LYP). No quoted passenger-volume figure is attached to those records in the curated airport-facts file.
Which timezone is Pakistan in?
All retained airport records in Pakistan resolve to Asia/Karachi. The zone does not observe a seasonal DST shift in the IANA database.
Does Pakistan have international airports?
Yes. The curated airport-facts file flags 6 records with an international-gateway role label in Pakistan. The role tags are derived from OurAirports type plus airport naming; verify scheduled international service with the carrier before booking.
How does Pakistan compare with regional peers for airport count?
Among same-continent peers with similar retained-record counts, Pakistan has 6 records vs. Iran (6), Taiwan (6), Vietnam (6). The comparison covers only retained records on this site, not full national aviation inventories.

Country overview

Airport coverage for Pakistan

The retained catalog currently includes 6 airport records in 6 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

6

Airport localities

6

Timezone records

1 zone

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.

Asia/Karachi6 airports

Codes, clocks, and city mapping

How to read the Pakistan airport index

IATA + ICAO reference

IATA coverage

6 codes

Useful for passenger-facing flight searches, tickets, airport boards, and quick route lookup.

ICAO coverage

6 codes

Useful for aviation references, flight tracking, weather briefings, and operational documents.

Airport mix

6 large / 0 medium

Gateway airports are prioritized first, but regional airports remain useful for local clock checks.

DST travel risk

Single-zone

Recheck local airport time around overnight arrivals, daylight-saving weekends, and cross-border connections.

Major airport list

Key airports in Pakistan

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.

Route-planning cues

When this airport index is useful

Start with gateway airports

6 large airports

Use large-airport entries first for broad trip planning, then scan medium airports for regional options.

Check the local clock

1 timezone

Compare airport zones before overnight arrivals, early departures, or daylight-saving changes.

Move to city context

4 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.

Illustrative airport time board

Example flight and gate labels are generated for display; local-time values use the timezone records shown on the page.

Destination
Flight
Gate
Local Time
LAHORE (LHE)
UA 354
B05
0
0
0
7
PESHAWAR (PEW)
SQ 983
A11
0
0
0
7
FAISALABAD (LYP)
UA 496
B05
0
0
0
7
ATTOCK (ISB)
AA 861
A07
0
0
0
7
KARACHI (KHI)
BA 541
B12
0
0
0
7
MULTAN (MUX)
AF 632
C02
0
0
0
7