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title: "GDL — Guadalajara Airport, Guadalajara · Orbit"
description: "Guadalajara International Airport (GDL/MMGL) serves Guadalajara, Mexico. Named after Miguel Hidalgo Y Costilla, 17.7 million passengers in 2023, 18 km from Guadalajara."
url: https://orbitflights.app/airports/gdl
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Guadalajara · Mexico · North America

# GDL — Guadalajara

Guadalajara International Airport serves Guadalajara, Mexico, 18 km from the city centre, and sits at 20.5°N, 103.3°W. This site carries 1 route touching it, with the great circle distance for each.

**IATA**
GDL
the code on your bag tag

**ICAO**
MMGL
used by air traffic control

**Passengers**
17.7M
in 2023

**Routes here**
1
in the catalogue

## History & name

Guadalajara International Airport takes its name from Guadalajara and honours Miguel Hidalgo Y Costilla, a Catholic priest and leader of the Mexican War of Independence. Operated by Grupo Aeroportuario del Pacífico, it lies 18 km from Guadalajara at 5,016 feet, and handled 17.7 million passengers in 2023.

Named after **Miguel Hidalgo Y Costilla** — Catholic priest, leader of the Mexican War of Independence

Read more: [Wikipedia ↗](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%5FMiguel%5FHidalgo%5Fy%5FCostilla%5FInternational%5FAirport) · [Wikidata ↗](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q932025)

## At a glance

**Full name**
Guadalajara International Airport

**Serves**
Guadalajara, Mexico

**City centre**
18 km from Guadalajara

**Operator**
Grupo Aeroportuario del Pacífico

**Passengers**
17.7 million in 2023

**Runways**
2 runways, longest 4,000 m

**Elevation**
5,016 ft (1,529 m)

**Map**
[Open in Google Maps ↗](https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=20.52330,-103.31010)

**Website**
[aeropuertosgap.com.mx ↗](https://www.aeropuertosgap.com.mx/es/guadalajara)

## Where it sits

20.5°N, 103.3°W puts GDL in the northern hemisphere, 2,282 km from the equator and 7,725 km from the North pole.

Of the 661 airports on this site it is the **391st** most northerly, which makes it the 271st most southerly.

## Straight through the middle

Straight down through the centre of the Earth comes out at 20.5°S, 76.7°E. The nearest airport on this site to that point is Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam (MRU) in Mauritius, still 1,979 km away — most of the planet's antipodes are ocean.

## What’s near it

The closest other airport on this site is **Guanajuato** (BJX), 197 km away in a straight line. Nothing else on this site is within 100 km.

## Distances from GDL

Great circle distance and an estimated time in the air.

| To                                                        |     | Distance | Estimated |
| --------------------------------------------------------- | --- | -------- | --------- |
| [Mexico City](https://orbitflights.app/routes/mex-to-gdl) | MEX | 459 km   | 1h 04m    |

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

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

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