--- title: "BKK — Suvarnabhumi Airport, Bangkok · Orbit" description: "Suvarnabhumi Airport (BKK/VTBS) serves Bangkok, Thailand. Opened 2006, 62.9 million passengers in 2025, 28 km from Bangkok. Map, website and distances to 13 destinations." url: https://orbitflights.app/airports/bkk --- Bangkok · Thailand · Asia # BKK — Suvarnabhumi Suvarnabhumi Airport serves Bangkok, Thailand, 28 km from the city centre, and sits at 13.7°N, 100.7°E. This site carries 13 routes touching it, with the great circle distance for each. **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 ↗](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suvarnabhumi%5FAirport) · [Wikidata ↗](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q194316) ## 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) **Map** [Open in Google Maps ↗](https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=13.68110,100.74700) **Website** [suvarnabhumi.airportthai.co.th ↗](https://suvarnabhumi.airportthai.co.th/) ## 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. DMK Don Mueang 30 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](https://orbitflights.app/routes/bkk-to-pnh) | PNH | 504 km | 1h 08m | | [Yangon](https://orbitflights.app/routes/bkk-to-rgn) | RGN | 611 km | 1h 16m | | [Phuket](https://orbitflights.app/routes/bkk-to-hkt) | HKT | 674 km | 1h 20m | | [Ho Chi Minh City](https://orbitflights.app/routes/bkk-to-sgn) | SGN | 716 km | 1h 23m | | [Singapore](https://orbitflights.app/routes/sin-to-bkk) | SIN | 1,417 km | 2h 16m | | [Hong Kong](https://orbitflights.app/routes/hkg-to-bkk) | HKG | 1,690 km | 2h 36m | | [Seoul](https://orbitflights.app/routes/icn-to-bkk) | ICN | 3,669 km | 5h 04m | | [Tokyo](https://orbitflights.app/routes/hnd-to-bkk) | HND | 4,590 km | 6h 12m | | [Dubai](https://orbitflights.app/routes/dxb-to-bkk) | DXB | 4,903 km | 6h 36m | | [Istanbul](https://orbitflights.app/routes/ist-to-bkk) | IST | 7,514 km | 9h 50m | | [Vienna](https://orbitflights.app/routes/vie-to-bkk) | VIE | 8,451 km | 11h 00m | | [Amsterdam](https://orbitflights.app/routes/ams-to-bkk) | AMS | 9,208 km | 11h 57m | | [London](https://orbitflights.app/routes/lhr-to-bkk) | LHR | 9,578 km | 12h 24m | [Distance from BKK to any airport →](https://orbitflights.app/distance?from=BKK&to=LHR) [Map a trip from BKK →](https://orbitflights.app/tools/flight-route-map?r=BKK-LHR) ## Where these facts come from The profile is looked up, not written from memory: type, runways, elevation and the official website from [OurAirports](https://ourairports.com/data/) (public domain); opening year, namesake, operator and passenger count from [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/) (CC0); the city centre from [GeoNames](https://www.geonames.org/) (CC BY 4.0). Where a source has nothing, the line is left out. Distances, neighbours and the antipode are computed from the coordinates. What you won’t find: terminal maps, airline lists, shops or live departures. Orbit is a logbook, not a flight tracker, and a page that guessed at those would be worse than one that leaves them out. [Measure BKK to anywhere →](https://orbitflights.app/distance) [Flights to Bangkok →](https://orbitflights.app/flights-to/bangkok) ## Flown through BKK? Orbit knows all 8,801 airports offline and works out the distance the moment you enter two codes. [Download now](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.qwertybit.orbit) --- Markdown copy of https://orbitflights.app/airports/bkk for language models and agents. Site index: https://orbitflights.app/llms.txt