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Cancún · Mexico · North America

CUNCancún

Cancún serves Cancún, Mexico, and sits at 21.0°N, 86.9°W. This site carries 2 routes touching it, with the great circle distance for each.

IATA
CUN
the code on your bag tag
ICAO
MMUN
used by air traffic control
Routes here
2
in the catalogue
From the equator
2,340 km
7,668 km from the North pole

Where it sits

21.0°N, 86.9°W puts CUN in the northern hemisphere, 2,340 km from the equator and 7,668 km from the North pole.

Of the 661 airports on this site it is the 383rd most northerly, which makes it the 279th most southerly.

Straight through the middle

Straight down through the centre of the Earth comes out at 21.0°S, 93.1°E. The nearest airport on this site to that point is Soekarno-Hatta (CGK) in Indonesia, still 2,208 km away — most of the planet's antipodes are ocean.

What’s near it

The closest other airport on this site is Cozumel (CZM), 59 km away in a straight line. It is the only one within 100 km.

CZMCozumel59 km

Distances from CUN

Great circle distance and an estimated time in the air. The longest is New York, at 2,506 km.

ToDistanceEstimated
Mexico CityMEX1,285 km2h 06m
New YorkJFK2,506 km3h 37m

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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