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title: "KUL — Kuala Lumpur Airport, Kuala Lumpur · Orbit"
description: "Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KUL/WMKK) serves Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Opened 1998, 25.4 million passengers in 2022, 44 km from Kuala Lumpur."
url: https://orbitflights.app/airports/kul
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Kuala Lumpur · Malaysia · Asia

# KUL — Kuala Lumpur

Kuala Lumpur International Airport serves Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 44 km from the city centre, and sits at 2.7°N, 101.7°E. This site carries 2 routes touching it, with the great circle distance for each.

**IATA**
KUL
the code on your bag tag

**ICAO**
WMKK
used by air traffic control

**Opened**
1998
per Wikidata

**Passengers**
25.4M
in 2022

## History & name

Kuala Lumpur International Airport opened in 1998 and is operated by Malaysia Airports. It sits 44 km from Kuala Lumpur, handled 25.4 million passengers in 2022 and has 3 runways, the longest 4,124 m.

Read more: [Wikipedia ↗](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuala%5FLumpur%5FInternational%5FAirport) · [Wikidata ↗](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q500253)

## At a glance

**Full name**
Kuala Lumpur International Airport

**Serves**
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

**City centre**
44 km from Kuala Lumpur

**Opened**
1998

**Operator**
Malaysia Airports

**Passengers**
25.4 million in 2022

**Runways**
3 runways, longest 4,124 m

**Elevation**
69 ft (21 m)

**Map**
[Open in Google Maps ↗](https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=2.74560,101.71000)

## Where it sits

2.7°N, 101.7°E puts KUL in the northern hemisphere, 305 km from the equator and 9,702 km from the North pole.

Of the 661 airports on this site it is the **508th** most northerly, which makes it the 154th most southerly.

## Straight through the middle

Straight down through the centre of the Earth comes out at 2.7°S, 78.3°W — 79 km from Mariscal Lamar (CUE) in Ecuador, 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 **Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah** (SZB), 46 km away in a straight line. It is the only one within 100 km.

SZB Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah 46 km

## Distances from KUL

Great circle distance and an estimated time in the air. The longest is London, at 10,605 km.

| To                                                      |     | Distance  | Estimated |
| ------------------------------------------------------- | --- | --------- | --------- |
| [Singapore](https://orbitflights.app/routes/sin-to-kul) | SIN | 297 km    | 52m       |
| [London](https://orbitflights.app/routes/lhr-to-kul)    | LHR | 10,605 km | 13h 41m   |

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

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

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