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LAX — Los Angeles

Los Angeles serves Los Angeles, United States, 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
Routes here
22
in the catalogue
From the equator
3,774 km
6,233 km from the North pole

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

What’s on this page, and what isn’t

Every figure here is computed from the airport’s coordinates and the rest of the table — distances, bearings, ranks, the antipode. Nothing is written by hand, so nothing on it is a half-remembered fact about a terminal that was rebuilt in 2019.

Which also means what you won’t find: no passenger figures, no terminal maps, no airline lists, no live departures. Orbit is a logbook, not a flight tracker, and a page that invented those would be worse than one that leaves them out.

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