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LAX — Los Angeles

Los Angeles International Airport serves Los Angeles, United States, 20 km from the city centre, and sits at 33.9°N, 118.4°W. This site carries 22 routes touching it, with the great circle distance for each.

IATA
LAX
the code on your bag tag
ICAO
KLAX
used by air traffic control
Opened
1928
per Wikidata
Passengers
73.7M
in 2025

History & name

Los Angeles International Airport dates from 1928 and is run by Los Angeles World Airports, 20 km from the city centre. It handled 73.7 million passengers in 2025 across 4 runways, the longest 3,930 m, at an elevation of 125 ft.

Read more: Wikipedia ↗ · Wikidata ↗

At a glance

Full name
Los Angeles International Airport
Serves
Los Angeles, United States
City centre
20 km from Los Angeles
Opened
1928
Operator
Los Angeles World Airports
Passengers
73.7 million in 2025
Runways
4 runways, longest 3,930 m
Elevation
125 ft (38 m)
Map
Open in Google Maps ↗
Website
flylax.com ↗

Where it sits

33.9°N, 118.4°W puts LAX in the northern hemisphere, 3,774 km from the equator and 6,233 km from the North pole.

Of the 661 airports on this site it is the 261st most northerly, which makes it the 401st most southerly.

Straight through the middle

Straight down through the centre of the Earth comes out at 33.9°S, 61.6°E. The nearest airport on this site to that point is Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam (MRU) in Mauritius, still 1,551 km away — most of the planet's antipodes are ocean.

What’s near it

The closest other airport on this site is Long Beach (LGB), 28 km away in a straight line. 4 airports here sit within 100 km — worth checking which one your ticket actually says.

LGBLong Beach28 kmBURHollywood Burbank/Bob Hope29 kmSNAJohn Wayne Orange County58 kmONTOntario75 km

Distances from LAX

Great circle distance and an estimated time in the air. The longest is Singapore, at 14,102 km.

ToDistanceEstimated
San FranciscoSFO543 km1h 11m
DenverDEN1,385 km2h 13m
SeattleSEA1,537 km2h 25m
Mexico CityMEX2,500 km3h 36m
ChicagoORD2,802 km3h 59m
New YorkJFK3,974 km5h 26m
HonoluluHNL4,108 km5h 36m
TokyoNRT8,753 km11h 23m
LondonLHR8,760 km11h 23m
TokyoHND8,812 km11h 27m
ParisCDG9,103 km11h 49m
FrankfurtFRA9,322 km12h 05m
SeoulICN9,625 km12h 28m
BeijingPEK10,037 km12h 58m
ShanghaiPVG10,415 km13h 27m
AucklandAKL10,487 km13h 32m
Hong KongHKG11,664 km15h 00m
SydneySYD12,061 km15h 29m
MelbourneMEL12,758 km16h 21m
MelbourneMEL12,758 km16h 21m
SingaporeSIN14,102 km18h 01m
SingaporeSIN14,102 km18h 01m
Distance from LAX to any airport →Map a trip from LAX →

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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