--- title: "BLR — Kempegowda International Airport Bengaluru Airport, Bangalore · Orbit" description: "Kempegowda International Airport Bengaluru (BLR/VOBL) serves Bangalore, India. Opened 2008, named after Kempe Gowda I, 41.9 million passengers in 2024." url: https://orbitflights.app/airports/blr --- Bangalore · India · Asia # BLR — Kempegowda International Airport Bengaluru Kempegowda International Airport Bengaluru serves Bangalore, India, 28 km from the centre of Bengaluru, and sits at 13.2°N, 77.7°E. This site carries 3 routes touching it, with the great circle distance for each. **IATA** BLR the code on your bag tag **ICAO** VOBL used by air traffic control **Opened** 2008 per Wikidata **Passengers** 41.9M in 2024 ## History & name Kempegowda International Airport Bengaluru opened in 2008 and is named after Kempe Gowda I, founder of Bangalore. It lies 28 km from Bengaluru at 3,000 feet, has two runways up to 4,000 m, and handled 41.9 million passengers in 2024. Named after **Kempe Gowda I** — Founder of Bangalore magadi Read more: [Wikipedia ↗](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kempegowda%5FInternational%5FAirport) · [Wikidata ↗](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q503364) ## At a glance **Full name** Kempegowda International Airport Bengaluru **Serves** Bangalore, India **City centre** 28 km from Bengaluru **Opened** 2008 **Passengers** 41.9 million in 2024 **Runways** 2 runways, longest 4,000 m **Elevation** 3,000 ft (914 m) **Map** [Open in Google Maps ↗](https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=13.19790,77.70630) **Website** [bengaluruairport.com ↗](http://www.bengaluruairport.com/home/home.jspx) ## Where it sits 13.2°N, 77.7°E puts BLR in the northern hemisphere, 1,468 km from the equator and 8,540 km from the North pole. Of the 661 airports on this site it is the **444th** most northerly, which makes it the 218th most southerly. ## Straight through the middle Straight down through the centre of the Earth comes out at 13.2°S, 102.3°W. The nearest airport on this site to that point is Mataveri (IPC) in Chile, still 1,721 km away — most of the planet's antipodes are ocean. ## What’s near it The closest other airport on this site is **Chennai** (MAA), 268 km away in a straight line. Nothing else on this site is within 100 km. ## Distances from BLR Great circle distance and an estimated time in the air. The longest is San Francisco, at 13,988 km. | To | | Distance | Estimated | | ----------------------------------------------------------- | --- | --------- | --------- | | [Delhi](https://orbitflights.app/routes/del-to-blr) | DEL | 1,709 km | 2h 37m | | [London](https://orbitflights.app/routes/lhr-to-blr) | LHR | 8,046 km | 10h 30m | | [San Francisco](https://orbitflights.app/routes/blr-to-sfo) | SFO | 13,988 km | 17h 53m | [Distance from BLR to any airport →](https://orbitflights.app/distance?from=BLR&to=SFO) [Map a trip from BLR →](https://orbitflights.app/tools/flight-route-map?r=BLR-SFO) ## 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 BLR to anywhere →](https://orbitflights.app/distance) ## Flown through BLR? 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/blr for language models and agents. Site index: https://orbitflights.app/llms.txt