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title: "CPH — Copenhagen Kastrup Airport, Copenhagen · Orbit"
description: "Copenhagen Kastrup Airport (CPH/EKCH) serves Copenhagen, Denmark. Opened 1925, 22.1 million passengers in 2022, 9 km from Copenhagen."
url: https://orbitflights.app/airports/cph
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Copenhagen · Denmark · Europe

# CPH — Copenhagen Kastrup

Copenhagen Kastrup Airport serves Copenhagen, Denmark, 9 km from the city centre, and sits at 55.6°N, 12.7°E. This site carries 3 routes touching it, with the great circle distance for each.

**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 ↗](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copenhagen%5FAirport) · [Wikidata ↗](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q206277)

## 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)

**Map**
[Open in Google Maps ↗](https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=55.61790,12.65600)

**Website**
[cph.dk ↗](http://www.cph.dk/en/)

## 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.

MMX Malmö Sturup 46 km

## Distances from CPH

Great circle distance and an estimated time in the air. The longest is Newark, at 6,207 km.

| To                                                      |     | Distance | Estimated |
| ------------------------------------------------------- | --- | -------- | --------- |
| [London](https://orbitflights.app/routes/lhr-to-cph)    | LHR | 979 km   | 1h 43m    |
| [Reykjavík](https://orbitflights.app/routes/cph-to-kef) | KEF | 2,144 km | 3h 10m    |
| [Newark](https://orbitflights.app/routes/cph-to-ewr)    | EWR | 6,207 km | 8h 13m    |

[Distance from CPH to any airport →](https://orbitflights.app/distance?from=CPH&to=EWR) [Map a trip from CPH →](https://orbitflights.app/tools/flight-route-map?r=CPH-EWR)

## 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 CPH to anywhere →](https://orbitflights.app/distance)

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