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title: "CUN — Cancún Airport, Cancún · Orbit"
description: "Cancún International Airport (CUN/MMUN) serves Cancún, Mexico. Opened 1975, 32.8 million passengers in 2023, 15 km from Cancún."
url: https://orbitflights.app/airports/cun
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Cancún · Mexico · North America

# CUN — Cancún

Cancún International Airport serves Cancún, Mexico, 15 km from the city centre, 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

**Opened**
1975
per Wikidata

**Passengers**
32.8M
in 2023

## History & name

Named after Cancun, Cancún International Airport opened in 1975 and is operated by Grupo Aeroportuario del Sureste. It is 15 km from Cancún, has two runways up to 3,500 m long, and handled 32.8 million passengers in 2023.

Read more: [Wikipedia ↗](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cancun%5FInternational%5FAirport) · [Wikidata ↗](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q641967)

## At a glance

**Full name**
Cancún International Airport

**Serves**
Cancún, Mexico

**City centre**
15 km from Cancún

**Opened**
1975

**Operator**
Grupo Aeroportuario del Sureste

**Passengers**
32.8 million in 2023

**Runways**
2 runways, longest 3,500 m

**Elevation**
22 ft (7 m)

**Map**
[Open in Google Maps ↗](https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=21.04080,-86.87350)

**Website**
[cancunairport.com ↗](https://cancunairport.com)

## 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.

CZM Cozumel 59 km

## Distances from CUN

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

| To                                                        |     | Distance | Estimated |
| --------------------------------------------------------- | --- | -------- | --------- |
| [Mexico City](https://orbitflights.app/routes/mex-to-cun) | MEX | 1,285 km | 2h 06m    |
| [New York](https://orbitflights.app/routes/jfk-to-cun)    | JFK | 2,506 km | 3h 37m    |

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

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

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