- IATA
- BKK
- the code on your bag tag
- ICAO
- VTBS
- used by air traffic control
- Routes here
- 13
- in the catalogue
- From the equator
- 1,521 km
- 8,486 km from the North pole
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 |
What’s on this page, and what isn’t
Every figure here is computed from the airport’s coordinates and the rest of the table — distances, bearings, ranks, the antipode. Nothing is written by hand, so nothing on it is a half-remembered fact about a terminal that was rebuilt in 2019.
Which also means what you won’t find: no passenger figures, no terminal maps, no airline lists, no live departures. Orbit is a logbook, not a flight tracker, and a page that invented those would be worse than one that leaves them out.
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