- IATA
- CPH
- the code on your bag tag
- ICAO
- EKCH
- used by air traffic control
- Opened
- 1925
- per Wikidata
- Passengers
- 22.1M
- in 2022
History & name
Copenhagen Kastrup Airport takes its name from Copenhagen and from Kastrup, and has been open since 1925. It sits 9 km from Copenhagen at just 17 feet above sea level, with 3 runways up to 3,600 m, and handled 22.1 million passengers in 2022.
Read more: Wikipedia ↗ · Wikidata ↗
At a glance
- Full name
- Copenhagen Kastrup Airport
- Serves
- Copenhagen, Denmark
- City centre
- 9 km from Copenhagen
- Opened
- 1925
- Passengers
- 22.1 million in 2022
- Runways
- 3 runways, longest 3,600 m
- Elevation
- 17 ft (5 m)
- Website
- cph.dk ↗
Where it sits
55.6°N, 12.7°E puts CPH in the northern hemisphere, 6,184 km from the equator and 3,823 km from the North pole.
Of the 661 airports on this site it is the 28th most northerly, which makes it the 634th most southerly.
Straight through the middle
Straight down through the centre of the Earth comes out at 55.6°S, 167.3°W. The nearest airport on this site to that point is Dunedin (DUD) in New Zealand, still 1,898 km away — most of the planet's antipodes are ocean.
What’s near it
The closest other airport on this site is Malmö Sturup (MMX), 46 km away in a straight line. It is the only one within 100 km.
Distances from CPH
Great circle distance and an estimated time in the air. The longest is Newark, at 6,207 km.
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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