- IATA
- HNL
- the code on your bag tag
- ICAO
- PHNL
- used by air traffic control
- Opened
- 1927
- per Wikidata
- Passengers
- 21.2M
- in 2023
History & name
Daniel K. Inouye International Airport opened in 1927 and honours Daniel Inouye (1924–2012), a United States Senator from Hawaii. The Hawaii Department of Transportation operates it just 7 km from Honolulu, and it recorded 21.2 million passengers in 2023 across 6 runways, the longest 3,767 m.
Named afterDaniel Inouye — United States Senator from Hawaii (1924–2012)
Read more: Wikipedia ↗ · Wikidata ↗
At a glance
- Full name
- Daniel K. Inouye International Airport
- Serves
- Honolulu, United States
- City centre
- 7 km from Honolulu
- Opened
- 1927
- Operator
- Hawaii Department of Transportation
- Passengers
- 21.2 million in 2023
- Runways
- 6 runways, longest 3,767 m
- Elevation
- 13 ft (4 m)
- Website
- airports.hawaii.gov ↗
Where it sits
21.3°N, 157.9°W puts HNL in the northern hemisphere, 2,370 km from the equator and 7,637 km from the North pole.
Of the 661 airports on this site it is the 381st most northerly, which makes it the 281st most southerly.
Straight through the middle
Straight down through the centre of the Earth comes out at 21.3°S, 22.1°E. The nearest airport on this site to that point is Hosea Kutako (WDH) in Namibia, still 492 km away — most of the planet's antipodes are ocean.
What’s near it
The closest other airport on this site is Kahului (OGG), 162 km away in a straight line. Nothing else on this site is within 100 km.
Distances from HNL
Great circle distance and an estimated time in the air. The longest is Sydney, at 8,170 km.
| To | Distance | Estimated | |
|---|---|---|---|
| San Francisco | SFO | 3,857 km | 5h 18m |
| Los Angeles | LAX | 4,108 km | 5h 36m |
| Seattle | SEA | 4,308 km | 5h 51m |
| Tokyo | HND | 6,191 km | 8h 12m |
| Sydney | SYD | 8,170 km | 10h 39m |
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.
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