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title: "DEN — Denver Airport, Denver · Orbit"
description: "Denver International Airport (DEN/KDEN) serves Denver, United States. Opened 1995, 82.4 million passengers in 2025, 30 km from Denver."
url: https://orbitflights.app/airports/den
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Denver · United States · North America

# DEN — Denver

Denver International Airport serves Denver, United States, 30 km from the city centre, and sits at 39.9°N, 104.7°W. This site carries 3 routes touching it, with the great circle distance for each.

**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 ↗](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denver%5FInternational%5FAirport) · [Wikidata ↗](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q330015)

## 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)

**Map**
[Open in Google Maps ↗](https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=39.86000,-104.67380)

**Website**
[flydenver.com ↗](http://www.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](https://orbitflights.app/routes/lax-to-den) | LAX | 1,385 km | 2h 13m    |
| [Chicago](https://orbitflights.app/routes/ord-to-den)     | ORD | 1,426 km | 2h 16m    |
| [New York](https://orbitflights.app/routes/jfk-to-den)    | JFK | 2,610 km | 3h 45m    |

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

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