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title: "HKT — Phuket Airport, Phuket · Orbit"
description: "Phuket International Airport (HKT/VTSP) serves Phuket, Thailand. 17.5 million passengers in 2025, 26 km from Phuket. Map, website and distances to 1 destination."
url: https://orbitflights.app/airports/hkt
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Phuket · Thailand · Asia

# HKT — Phuket

Phuket International Airport serves Phuket, Thailand, 26 km from the city centre, and sits at 8.1°N, 98.3°E. This site carries 1 route touching it, with the great circle distance for each.

**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 ↗](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phuket%5FInternational%5FAirport) · [Wikidata ↗](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q240694)

## 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)

**Map**
[Open in Google Maps ↗](https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=8.11330,98.31740)

**Website**
[phuket.airportthai.co.th ↗](https://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.

KBV Krabi 74 km

## Distances from HKT

Great circle distance and an estimated time in the air.

| To                                                    |     | Distance | Estimated |
| ----------------------------------------------------- | --- | -------- | --------- |
| [Bangkok](https://orbitflights.app/routes/bkk-to-hkt) | BKK | 674 km   | 1h 20m    |

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

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

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