Shahid Sadooghi Airport — Yazd, Iran

Shahid Sadooghi Airport serves Yazd, the capital of Yazd Province on Iran's central plateau. The airport sits at 4,054 feet above sea level, matching the arid, high-desert terrain that surrounds Yazd on all sides. The single runway here mostly serves the route toward Tehran, since Yazd's provincial airport has limited scheduled options beyond Iran's capital. The nearest large airport, Isfahan's Shahid Beheshti International, lies about 244 kilometers away, with Rafsanjan Airport just slightly further out and Yasuj Airport roughly 292 kilometers away. That wide spacing reflects the sparsely populated desert region of central Iran, where cities sit far apart across the plateau. AZD remains a modestly sized field serving a provincial capital rather than a major national hub.