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title: "HNL — Daniel K. Inouye Airport, Honolulu · Orbit"
description: "Daniel K. Inouye International Airport (HNL/PHNL) serves Honolulu, United States. Opened 1927, named after Daniel Inouye, 21.2 million passengers in 2023."
url: https://orbitflights.app/airports/hnl
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Honolulu · United States · Oceania

# HNL — Daniel K. Inouye

Daniel K. Inouye International Airport serves Honolulu, United States, 7 km from the city centre, and sits at 21.3°N, 157.9°W. This site carries 5 routes touching it, with the great circle distance for each.

**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 after **Daniel Inouye** — United States Senator from Hawaii (1924–2012)

Read more: [Wikipedia ↗](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel%5FK.%5FInouye%5FInternational%5FAirport) · [Wikidata ↗](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q531178)

## 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)

**Map**
[Open in Google Maps ↗](https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=21.31840,-157.92570)

**Website**
[airports.hawaii.gov ↗](http://airports.hawaii.gov/hnl/)

## 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](https://orbitflights.app/routes/sfo-to-hnl) | SFO | 3,857 km | 5h 18m    |
| [Los Angeles](https://orbitflights.app/routes/lax-to-hnl)   | LAX | 4,108 km | 5h 36m    |
| [Seattle](https://orbitflights.app/routes/sea-to-hnl)       | SEA | 4,308 km | 5h 51m    |
| [Tokyo](https://orbitflights.app/routes/hnl-to-hnd)         | HND | 6,191 km | 8h 12m    |
| [Sydney](https://orbitflights.app/routes/hnl-to-syd)        | SYD | 8,170 km | 10h 39m   |

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

## 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 HNL to anywhere →](https://orbitflights.app/distance) [Flights to Honolulu →](https://orbitflights.app/flights-to/honolulu)

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