- IATA
- HKT
- the code on your bag tag
- ICAO
- VTSP
- used by air traffic control
- Passengers
- 17.5M
- in 2025
- Routes here
- 1
- in the catalogue
History & name
Phuket International Airport is operated by Airports of Thailand and lies 26 km from Phuket. It handled 17.5 million passengers in 2025 on a single 3,100 m runway at an elevation of 82 ft.
Read more: Wikipedia ↗ · Wikidata ↗
At a glance
- Full name
- Phuket International Airport
- Serves
- Phuket, Thailand
- City centre
- 26 km from Phuket
- Operator
- Airports of Thailand
- Passengers
- 17.5 million in 2025
- Runways
- 1 runway, 3,100 m
- Elevation
- 82 ft (25 m)
- Website
- phuket.airportthai.co.th ↗
Where it sits
8.1°N, 98.3°E puts HKT in the northern hemisphere, 902 km from the equator and 9,105 km from the North pole.
Of the 661 airports on this site it is the 480th most northerly, which makes it the 182nd most southerly.
Straight through the middle
Straight down through the centre of the Earth comes out at 8.1°S, 81.7°W — 283 km from Capitán FAP Carlos Martínez de Pinillos (TRU) in Peru, 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 Krabi (KBV), 74 km away in a straight line. It is the only one within 100 km.
Distances from HKT
Great circle distance and an estimated time in the air.
| To | Distance | Estimated | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bangkok | BKK | 674 km | 1h 20m |
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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