--- title: "HKG — Hong Kong Airport, Hong Kong · Orbit" description: "Hong Kong International Airport (HKG/VHHH) serves Hong Kong, Hong Kong. Opened 1998, 53.1 million passengers in 2024, 27 km from Hong Kong." url: https://orbitflights.app/airports/hkg --- Hong Kong · Hong Kong · Asia # HKG — Hong Kong Hong Kong International Airport serves Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 27 km from the city centre, and sits at 22.3°N, 113.9°E. This site carries 13 routes touching it, with the great circle distance for each. **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 ↗](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong%5FKong%5FInternational%5FAirport) · [Wikidata ↗](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17704) ## 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) **Map** [Open in Google Maps ↗](https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=22.31180,113.91490) **Website** [hongkongairport.com ↗](http://www.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. MFM Macau 38 km SZX Shenzhen Bao'an 38 km ## 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](https://orbitflights.app/routes/hkg-to-tpe) | TPE | 806 km | 1h 30m | | [Shanghai](https://orbitflights.app/routes/hkg-to-pvg) | PVG | 1,255 km | 2h 04m | | [Bangkok](https://orbitflights.app/routes/hkg-to-bkk) | BKK | 1,690 km | 2h 36m | | [Beijing](https://orbitflights.app/routes/pek-to-hkg) | PEK | 1,992 km | 2h 58m | | [Singapore](https://orbitflights.app/routes/hkg-to-sin) | SIN | 2,566 km | 3h 41m | | [Frankfurt](https://orbitflights.app/routes/fra-to-hkg) | FRA | 9,154 km | 11h 53m | | [Paris](https://orbitflights.app/routes/cdg-to-hkg) | CDG | 9,590 km | 12h 25m | | [London](https://orbitflights.app/routes/lhr-to-hkg) | LHR | 9,630 km | 12h 28m | | [Vancouver](https://orbitflights.app/routes/yvr-to-hkg) | YVR | 10,269 km | 13h 16m | | [San Francisco](https://orbitflights.app/routes/sfo-to-hkg) | SFO | 11,128 km | 14h 20m | | [Los Angeles](https://orbitflights.app/routes/lax-to-hkg) | LAX | 11,664 km | 15h 00m | | [New York](https://orbitflights.app/routes/jfk-to-hkg) | JFK | 12,970 km | 16h 37m | | [New York](https://orbitflights.app/routes/hkg-to-jfk) | JFK | 12,970 km | 16h 37m | [Distance from HKG to any airport →](https://orbitflights.app/distance?from=HKG&to=JFK) [Map a trip from HKG →](https://orbitflights.app/tools/flight-route-map?r=HKG-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 HKG to anywhere →](https://orbitflights.app/distance) [Flights to Hong Kong →](https://orbitflights.app/flights-to/hong-kong) ## Flown through HKG? Orbit knows all 8,801 airports offline and works out the distance the moment you enter two codes. [Download now](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.qwertybit.orbit) --- Markdown copy of https://orbitflights.app/airports/hkg for language models and agents. Site index: https://orbitflights.app/llms.txt