- IATA
- BKK
- the code on your bag tag
- ICAO
- VTBS
- used by air traffic control
- Opened
- 2006
- per Wikidata
- Passengers
- 62.9M
- in 2025
History & name
Suvarnabhumi Airport opened in 2006 and is operated by Airports of Thailand. It lies 28 km from Bangkok at an elevation of 5 feet, with three runways up to 4,000 m, and handled 62.9 million passengers in 2025.
Read more: Wikipedia ↗ · Wikidata ↗
At a glance
- Full name
- Suvarnabhumi Airport
- Serves
- Bangkok, Thailand
- City centre
- 28 km from Bangkok
- Opened
- 2006
- Operator
- Airports of Thailand
- Passengers
- 62.9 million in 2025
- Runways
- 3 runways, longest 4,000 m
- Elevation
- 5 ft (2 m)
Where it sits
13.7°N, 100.7°E puts BKK in the northern hemisphere, 1,521 km from the equator and 8,486 km from the North pole.
Of the 661 airports on this site it is the 442nd most northerly, which makes it the 220th most southerly.
Straight through the middle
Straight down through the centre of the Earth comes out at 13.7°S, 79.3°W — 296 km from Jorge Chávez (LIM) in Peru, which is about as close to a true antipodal airport pair as this table gets.
What’s near it
The closest other airport on this site is Don Mueang (DMK), 30 km away in a straight line. It is the only one within 100 km.
Distances from BKK
Great circle distance and an estimated time in the air. The longest is London, at 9,578 km.
| To | Distance | Estimated | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Phnom Penh | PNH | 504 km | 1h 08m |
| Yangon | RGN | 611 km | 1h 16m |
| Phuket | HKT | 674 km | 1h 20m |
| Ho Chi Minh City | SGN | 716 km | 1h 23m |
| Singapore | SIN | 1,417 km | 2h 16m |
| Hong Kong | HKG | 1,690 km | 2h 36m |
| Seoul | ICN | 3,669 km | 5h 04m |
| Tokyo | HND | 4,590 km | 6h 12m |
| Dubai | DXB | 4,903 km | 6h 36m |
| Istanbul | IST | 7,514 km | 9h 50m |
| Vienna | VIE | 8,451 km | 11h 00m |
| Amsterdam | AMS | 9,208 km | 11h 57m |
| London | LHR | 9,578 km | 12h 24m |
Where these facts come from
The profile is looked up, not written from memory: type, runways, elevation and the official website from OurAirports (public domain); opening year, namesake, operator and passenger count from Wikidata (CC0); the city centre from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Where a source has nothing, the line is left out. Distances, neighbours and the antipode are computed from the coordinates.
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