The gateways that matter
From west to east, the airports a visitor is likely to fly into are: Havana (HAV), the primary hub; Varadero (VRA), the leisure gateway on the Hicacos Peninsula; Santa Clara (SNU) and Cayo Coco (CCC) for the central cays; Holguín (HOG) for the Guardalavaca beaches; and Santiago de Cuba (SCU) in the far east. Camagüey and a few smaller fields carry occasional service. Everything else is general aviation, military, or dormant.
Reading the pattern
The map tells a story about how tourism is organised. International charter and leisure carriers land travellers as close as possible to the beaches — hence dedicated airports at Varadero, Cayo Coco, and Holguín — while Havana concentrates the scheduled, connecting, and long-haul traffic. There is no single hub that feeds a domestic spoke network the way a mainland country would; the road fills that gap.
See it live
The interactive CubaAtlas map plots every airport as its own point, with the scheduled-service fields highlighted, so you can judge which gateway sits nearest the region you actually want to visit. It is the fastest way to answer the real question behind 'airports in Cuba' — not how many there are, but which one gets you closest to where you are going.
The airfields you won't fly into
Beyond the passenger gateways, Cuba has fields that rarely see a visitor. Camagüey's Ignacio Agramonte handles some international charter, while airports at Cienfuegos, Manzanillo, Bayamo, and Baracoa carry little or no scheduled service. Many appear on maps and in open datasets but function as regional, cargo, or general-aviation strips. Knowing they exist matters mainly so you are not tempted to route through one expecting the frequency of a hub — the usable network is far smaller than the tally of runways suggests.