Rotorua Regional Airport

Rotorua Regional Airport (ROT/NZRO) is in Rotorua, NZ, 285 m above sea level. It has 2 runways and the longest is 1,622 m. See the diagram, each runway's data and what you fly over from here.

The diagram

18L36R18R36L
Drawn to scale from the real coordinates of each runway end. Runways without coordinates are not drawn.

Data

Codes
ROT · NZRO
City
Rotorua
Country
NZ
Coordinates
-38.1092, 176.3170
Elevation
285 m · 935 ft
Time zone
Pacific/Auckland
Local time now
01:18
Airspace
Auckland
Departures observed
18 · 9 arrivals
Most seen destinations
AKL, WHK, CHC, WLG

Departures and arrivals we saw ourselves on adsb.lol traces over 2 day(s). A floor, not the total number of movements: where no receiver is nearby, nothing is seen.

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That day’s flights

What we saw take off and land on 2026-09-03, in local time here. This is not an arrivals board: it does not say what leaves today, it says what flew that day and only what the receivers managed to see.

Took off (13)

TimeCallsignAircraftTo
12:00ZKEMDGA20 · ZK-EMD
13:19ZKDNTC172 · ZK-DNTROT
13:32ANZ783MAT76 · ZK-MVWCHC
14:00ZKHXPEC30 · ZK-HXPAKL
14:01VOL03C206 · ZK-FEOROT
14:48ZKDNTC172 · ZK-DNTROT
15:08ZKEFAC172 · ZK-EFA
16:00ZKDNTC172 · ZK-DNT
16:08VOL03C206 · ZK-FEO
16:29ANZ156MAT76 · ZK-MZEAKL
06:55ANZ150MAT76 · ZK-MZEAKL
08:26ANZ231LDH8C · ZK-NECWLG
10:17ANZ785MAT76 · ZK-MZE

Landed (9)

TimeCallsignAircraftFrom
12:50ANZ782MAT76 · ZK-MVW
13:54ZKDNTC172 · ZK-DNTROT
14:10ZKEFAC172 · ZK-EFA
14:30VOL03C206 · ZK-FEOROT
15:20ZKDNTC172 · ZK-DNTROT
15:46ANZ786MAT76 · ZK-MZECHC
18:53ANZ156MAT76 · ZK-MZEAKL
07:50ANZ238LDH8C · ZK-NECWLG
09:11ANZ150MAT76 · ZK-MZEAKL

The callsign is what the aircraft transmits by radio. It usually matches the commercial flight number, but not always: sometimes it is the registration.

Showing the first 40 in each direction.

Runways (2)

RunwayLength SurfaceHeadings
18R/36L1,622 m · 5,321 ftasphalt205° · 25°
18L/36R833 m · 2,732 ftgrass206° · 26°

An asterisk marks a heading derived from the runway number rather than measured. The number is a magnetic heading and the measured one is true: the derived value carries the local magnetic declination, up to 20 degrees.

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And this on board

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