Niue International Airport

Niue: one of the smallest international airports in the world

Niue International Airport (IATA IUE, ICAO NIUE), also called Hanan after the village beside it, lies a few kilometers south of Alofi, the capital of Niue, a raised coral island in the South Pacific between Tonga and the Cook Islands with fewer than two thousand inhabitants. It is the island's only airport and its only regular link with the outside world apart from a monthly cargo ship; the twice-weekly arrival of the Auckland flight is the event of the week. The radar on this page shows what our data sources report around Niue; the arrivals and departures pages are linked above it. Niue lies on the far side of the date line from Europe, twelve hours behind Central European summer time.

Airlines and destinations

Air New Zealand operates the only scheduled service, from Auckland, usually twice a week with an Airbus A320, a flight of about three and a half hours that connects in Auckland with the rest of the world. There are no other airlines, no domestic flights and no connections to the neighboring islands; an occasional charter serves Tonga or the Cook Islands. Our route data holds no connections for Niue, and the island lies far beyond the reach of our receivers, so the live radar depends on other data sources and may show nothing between the flights.

Getting around Niue

Your accommodation will meet the flight; the drive to Alofi and the guesthouses along the west coast takes ten to twenty minutes. There is no public transport and no taxi service to speak of, so almost every visitor rents a car for the week, booked in advance from one of the island's few rental firms, and obtains a Niue driving license at the police station in Alofi, a tradition as much as a formality. The island's single ring road is about 60 kilometers long.

Good to know

The terminal is a small single building where the whole island seems to gather on flight days; check-in opens a couple of hours before the departure and closes early, and the duty-free counter is the island's shopping event. Visitors from most countries need no visa for a stay of up to a month, but a return ticket and booked accommodation are required; New Zealand dollars are the currency, cards are accepted at the main places and the ATM is in Alofi. Flights are occasionally delayed by weather in the cyclone season from November to April. The gateway for everything is Auckland; Rarotonga in the Cook Islands is the nearest other international airport. Every airport we track is listed in the airport overview.