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title: "LPA — Gran Canaria Airport, Gran Canaria · Orbit"
description: "Gran Canaria Airport (LPA/GCLP) serves Gran Canaria, Spain. Opened 1930, 15.8 million passengers in 2025, 19 km from Las Palmas de Gran Canaria."
url: https://orbitflights.app/airports/lpa
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Gran Canaria · Spain · Africa

# LPA — Gran Canaria

Gran Canaria Airport serves Gran Canaria, Spain, 19 km from the centre of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, and sits at 27.9°N, 15.4°W. This site carries 1 route touching it, with the great circle distance for each.

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

**ICAO**
GCLP
used by air traffic control

**Opened**
1930
per Wikidata

**Passengers**
15.8M
in 2025

## History & name

Gran Canaria Airport opened in 1930 and takes its name from Gran Canaria. ENAIRE operates it 19 km from Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, and it handled 15.8 million passengers in 2025 on two runways, the longer 3,100 m.

Read more: [Wikipedia ↗](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gran%5FCanaria%5FAirport) · [Wikidata ↗](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1130612)

## At a glance

**Full name**
Gran Canaria Airport

**Serves**
Gran Canaria, Spain

**City centre**
19 km from Las Palmas de Gran Canaria

**Opened**
1930

**Operator**
ENAIRE

**Passengers**
15.8 million in 2025

**Runways**
2 runways, longest 3,100 m

**Elevation**
78 ft (24 m)

**Map**
[Open in Google Maps ↗](https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=27.93190,-15.38660)

**Website**
[aena.es ↗](https://www.aena.es/en/gran-canaria.html)

## Where it sits

27.9°N, 15.4°W puts LPA in the northern hemisphere, 3,106 km from the equator and 6,902 km from the North pole.

Of the 661 airports on this site it is the **326th** most northerly, which makes it the 336th most southerly.

## Straight through the middle

Straight down through the centre of the Earth comes out at 27.9°S, 164.6°E. The nearest airport on this site to that point is La Tontouta (NOU) in New Caledonia, still 677 km away — most of the planet's antipodes are ocean.

## What’s near it

The closest other airport on this site is **Tenerife Norte-Ciudad de La Laguna** (TFN), 112 km away in a straight line. Nothing else on this site is within 100 km.

## Distances from LPA

Great circle distance and an estimated time in the air.

| To                                                   |     | Distance | Estimated |
| ---------------------------------------------------- | --- | -------- | --------- |
| [Madrid](https://orbitflights.app/routes/mad-to-lpa) | MAD | 1,766 km | 2h 42m    |

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

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

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