--- title: "LAX — Los Angeles Airport, Los Angeles · Orbit" description: "Los Angeles International Airport (LAX/KLAX) serves Los Angeles, United States. Opened 1928, 73.7 million passengers in 2025, 20 km from Los Angeles." url: https://orbitflights.app/airports/lax --- Los Angeles · United States · North America # 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 ↗](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los%5FAngeles%5FInternational%5FAirport) · [Wikidata ↗](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8731) ## 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 ↗](https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=33.94250,-118.40800) **Website** [flylax.com ↗](https://www.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. LGB Long Beach 28 km BUR Hollywood Burbank/Bob Hope 29 km SNA John Wayne Orange County 58 km ONT Ontario 75 km ## Distances from LAX Great circle distance and an estimated time in the air. The longest is Singapore, at 14,102 km. | To | | Distance | Estimated | | ----------------------------------------------------------- | --- | --------- | --------- | | [San Francisco](https://orbitflights.app/routes/lax-to-sfo) | SFO | 543 km | 1h 11m | | [Denver](https://orbitflights.app/routes/lax-to-den) | DEN | 1,385 km | 2h 13m | | [Seattle](https://orbitflights.app/routes/lax-to-sea) | SEA | 1,537 km | 2h 25m | | [Mexico City](https://orbitflights.app/routes/lax-to-mex) | MEX | 2,500 km | 3h 36m | | [Chicago](https://orbitflights.app/routes/lax-to-ord) | ORD | 2,802 km | 3h 59m | | [New York](https://orbitflights.app/routes/jfk-to-lax) | JFK | 3,974 km | 5h 26m | | [Honolulu](https://orbitflights.app/routes/lax-to-hnl) | HNL | 4,108 km | 5h 36m | | [Tokyo](https://orbitflights.app/routes/lax-to-nrt) | NRT | 8,753 km | 11h 23m | | [London](https://orbitflights.app/routes/lhr-to-lax) | LHR | 8,760 km | 11h 23m | | [Tokyo](https://orbitflights.app/routes/lax-to-hnd) | HND | 8,812 km | 11h 27m | | [Paris](https://orbitflights.app/routes/cdg-to-lax) | CDG | 9,103 km | 11h 49m | | [Frankfurt](https://orbitflights.app/routes/fra-to-lax) | FRA | 9,322 km | 12h 05m | | [Seoul](https://orbitflights.app/routes/lax-to-icn) | ICN | 9,625 km | 12h 28m | | [Beijing](https://orbitflights.app/routes/lax-to-pek) | PEK | 10,037 km | 12h 58m | | [Shanghai](https://orbitflights.app/routes/lax-to-pvg) | PVG | 10,415 km | 13h 27m | | [Auckland](https://orbitflights.app/routes/lax-to-akl) | AKL | 10,487 km | 13h 32m | | [Hong Kong](https://orbitflights.app/routes/lax-to-hkg) | HKG | 11,664 km | 15h 00m | | [Sydney](https://orbitflights.app/routes/lax-to-syd) | SYD | 12,061 km | 15h 29m | | [Melbourne](https://orbitflights.app/routes/lax-to-mel) | MEL | 12,758 km | 16h 21m | | [Melbourne](https://orbitflights.app/routes/mel-to-lax) | MEL | 12,758 km | 16h 21m | | [Singapore](https://orbitflights.app/routes/lax-to-sin) | SIN | 14,102 km | 18h 01m | | [Singapore](https://orbitflights.app/routes/sin-to-lax) | SIN | 14,102 km | 18h 01m | [Distance from LAX to any airport →](https://orbitflights.app/distance?from=LAX&to=SIN) [Map a trip from LAX →](https://orbitflights.app/tools/flight-route-map?r=LAX-SIN) ## 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 LAX to anywhere →](https://orbitflights.app/distance) [Flights to Los Angeles →](https://orbitflights.app/flights-to/los-angeles) ## Flown through LAX? Orbit knows all 8,801 airports offline and works out the distance the moment you enter two codes. [Download now](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.qwertybit.orbit) --- Markdown copy of https://orbitflights.app/airports/lax for language models and agents. Site index: https://orbitflights.app/llms.txt