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Abidjan/Port Bouet Airport
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DIAP
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ICAO: DIAP – IATA: ABJ | |
Summary | |
Name | Abidjan/Port Bouet Airport |
Region | Africa |
Territory | Ivory Coast ![]() |
Location | Port Bouet, Abidjan |
Serving | Abidjan |
Coordinates | 5° 15' 40.99" N, 3° 55' 34.66" W |
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METAR | |
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Observation | DIAP 120700Z 04003KT 8000 FEW012 24/24 Q1011 NOSIG
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Station | Abidjan |
Date/Time | 12 December 2019 07:00:00 |
Wind direction | 40° |
Wind speed | 03 kts |
Lowest cloud amount | few clouds |
Temperature | 24°C |
Dew point | 24°C |
Humidity | 100% |
QNH | 1011 hPa |
Weather condition | n/a |
Abidjan/Felix Houphoet Boigny Airport
ICAO: DIAP IATA: ABJ
Description
International airport serving the capital of the Ivory Coast.
Climatology
Tropical Monsoon climate (Köppen climate classification Am) - monthly mean temperatures above 18°C64.4 °F
291.15 K
524.07 °R
in every month of the year and features wet and dry seasons. A tropical monsoon climate typically features less pronounced dry seasons than a tropical savanna climate and see less variance in temperatures during the course of the year. The driest month nearly always occurs at or soon after the "winter" solstice.
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Accidents & Serious Incidents at or in vicinity of DIAP
- A310, vicinity Abidjan Ivory Coast, 2000 (On 30 January 2000, an Airbus 310 took off from Abidjan (Ivory Coast) at night bound for Lagos, Nigeria then Nairobi, Kenya. Thirty-three seconds after take-off, the airplane crashed into the Atlantic Ocean, 1.5 nautical miles south of the runway at Abidjan Airport. 169 persons died and 10 were injured in the accident.)