- IATA
- HKG
- the code on your bag tag
- ICAO
- VHHH
- used by air traffic control
- Opened
- 1998
- per Wikidata
- Passengers
- 53.1M
- in 2024
History & name
Opened in 1998, Hong Kong International Airport is operated by Airport Authority Hong Kong and sits 27 km from the city centre. It handled 53.1 million passengers in 2024 and has 3 runways, the longest 3,800 m, at an elevation of 28 ft.
Read more: Wikipedia ↗ · Wikidata ↗
At a glance
- Full name
- Hong Kong International Airport
- Serves
- Hong Kong, Hong Kong
- City centre
- 27 km from Hong Kong
- Opened
- 1998
- Operator
- Airport Authority Hong Kong
- Passengers
- 53.1 million in 2024
- Runways
- 3 runways, longest 3,800 m
- Elevation
- 28 ft (9 m)
- Website
- hongkongairport.com ↗
Where it sits
22.3°N, 113.9°E puts HKG in the northern hemisphere, 2,481 km from the equator and 7,527 km from the North pole.
Of the 661 airports on this site it is the 373rd most northerly, which makes it the 289th most southerly.
Straight through the middle
Straight down through the centre of the Earth comes out at 22.3°S, 66.1°W — 289 km from Martín Miguel de Güemes (SLA) in Argentina, which is about as close to a true antipodal airport pair as this table gets.
What’s near it
The closest other airport on this site is Macau (MFM), 38 km away in a straight line. 2 airports here sit within 100 km — worth checking which one your ticket actually says.
Distances from HKG
Great circle distance and an estimated time in the air. The longest is New York, at 12,970 km.
| To | Distance | Estimated | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Taipei | TPE | 806 km | 1h 30m |
| Shanghai | PVG | 1,255 km | 2h 04m |
| Bangkok | BKK | 1,690 km | 2h 36m |
| Beijing | PEK | 1,992 km | 2h 58m |
| Singapore | SIN | 2,566 km | 3h 41m |
| Frankfurt | FRA | 9,154 km | 11h 53m |
| Paris | CDG | 9,590 km | 12h 25m |
| London | LHR | 9,630 km | 12h 28m |
| Vancouver | YVR | 10,269 km | 13h 16m |
| San Francisco | SFO | 11,128 km | 14h 20m |
| Los Angeles | LAX | 11,664 km | 15h 00m |
| New York | JFK | 12,970 km | 16h 37m |
| New York | JFK | 12,970 km | 16h 37m |
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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