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Port Hedland International Airport lies around eight miles north of Port Hedland, Australia, and an even closer to the suburb of South Hedland with car hire in Port Hedland Airport. Approximately 250,000 passengers board about 20,000 flights at this airport each year. These flights travel non-stop to Brisbane, Broome, Darwin, Melbourne, Perth and several smaller cities.
Port Hedland Airport facilities
This airport's current lighting and taxiway upgrades should be completed in 2011. The airport has no ticketing facilities, but it contains baby change rooms, disabled persons' toilet facilities, showers, locations to compare car hire and public telephones in its terminal. The departures lounge contains a small bar and an outdoor smoking area.
Port Hedland Airport excursions
The coastal Western Australia community of Port Hedland is Pilbara's most populated town and home to Australia's highest tonnage port. Much of Port Hedland's population lives in the neighboring inland suburb of South Hedland. The giant Dampier Salt hills stand between the two communities, but Port Hedland is also the starting point of Eighty Mile Beach, named after its distance across the Indian Ocean coast.
Best time to visit
Most of Port Hedland's rain falls between December and June. Downpours are usually accompanied by very hot summer temperatures and warm and humid eastward breezes from the Indian Ocean. May to September is Port Hedland's prime tourism period, when the weather remains very warm, but not uncomfortably so.
Car rental in Port Hedland Airport
Both the Great Northern Highway and the North West Coastal Highway travel between Port Hedland and Perth, but car rental in Port Hedland Airport can also make the much shorter journey of the Out and About Trail. This trail leads visitors through Finucane Island, the Old Well, the Pretty Pool and Port Hedland's numerous mangrove swamps and creeks.
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