- IATA
- DEN
- the code on your bag tag
- ICAO
- KDEN
- used by air traffic control
- Opened
- 1995
- per Wikidata
- Passengers
- 82.4M
- in 2025
History & name
Denver International Airport opened in 1995 and takes its name from Denver, which lies 30 km away. At 5,431 feet above sea level, it has 6 runways, the longest 4,877 m, and handled 82.4 million passengers in 2025.
Read more: Wikipedia ↗ · Wikidata ↗
At a glance
- Full name
- Denver International Airport
- Serves
- Denver, United States
- City centre
- 30 km from Denver
- Opened
- 1995
- Passengers
- 82.4 million in 2025
- Runways
- 6 runways, longest 4,877 m
- Elevation
- 5,431 ft (1,655 m)
- Website
- flydenver.com ↗
Where it sits
39.9°N, 104.7°W puts DEN in the northern hemisphere, 4,432 km from the equator and 5,575 km from the North pole.
Of the 661 airports on this site it is the 179th most northerly, which makes it the 483rd most southerly.
Straight through the middle
Straight down through the centre of the Earth comes out at 39.9°S, 75.3°E. The nearest airport on this site to that point is Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam (MRU) in Mauritius, still 2,736 km away — most of the planet's antipodes are ocean.
What’s near it
The closest other airport on this site is City of Colorado Springs (COS), 117 km away in a straight line. Nothing else on this site is within 100 km.
Distances from DEN
Great circle distance and an estimated time in the air. The longest is New York, at 2,610 km.
| To | Distance | Estimated | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Los Angeles | LAX | 1,385 km | 2h 13m |
| Chicago | ORD | 1,426 km | 2h 16m |
| New York | JFK | 2,610 km | 3h 45m |
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.
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.
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