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title: "MEX — Mexico City Benito Juárez Airport, Mexico City · Orbit"
description: "Mexico City Benito Juárez International Airport (MEX/MMMX) serves Mexico City, Mexico. Opened 1952, 44.6 million passengers in 2025, 6 km from Mexico City."
url: https://orbitflights.app/airports/mex
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Mexico City · Mexico · North America

# MEX — Mexico City Benito Juárez

Mexico City Benito Juárez International Airport serves Mexico City, Mexico, 6 km from the city centre, and sits at 19.4°N, 99.1°W. This site carries 5 routes touching it, with the great circle distance for each.

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

**ICAO**
MMMX
used by air traffic control

**Opened**
1952
per Wikidata

**Passengers**
44.6M
in 2025

## History & name

Opened in 1952, Mexico City Benito Juárez International Airport is run by Aeropuertos y Servicios Auxiliares and lies just 6 km from the centre of Mexico City. It recorded 44.6 million passengers in 2025\. Two runways, the longest 3,952 m, sit at an elevation of 7,316 ft.

Read more: [Wikipedia ↗](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexico%5FCity%5FInternational%5FAirport) · [Wikidata ↗](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q860559)

## At a glance

**Full name**
Mexico City Benito Juárez International Airport

**Serves**
Mexico City, Mexico

**City centre**
6 km from Mexico City

**Opened**
1952

**Operator**
Aeropuertos y Servicios Auxiliares

**Passengers**
44.6 million in 2025

**Runways**
2 runways, longest 3,952 m

**Elevation**
7,316 ft (2,230 m)

**Map**
[Open in Google Maps ↗](https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=19.43580,-99.07030)

**Website**
[aicm.com.mx ↗](https://www.aicm.com.mx)

## Where it sits

19.4°N, 99.1°W puts MEX in the northern hemisphere, 2,161 km from the equator and 7,846 km from the North pole.

Of the 661 airports on this site it is the **400th** most northerly, which makes it the 262nd most southerly.

## Straight through the middle

Straight down through the centre of the Earth comes out at 19.4°S, 80.9°E. The nearest airport on this site to that point is Gan (GAN) in Maldives, still 2,250 km away — most of the planet's antipodes are ocean.

## What’s near it

The closest other airport on this site is **Felipe Ángeles** (NLU), 35 km away in a straight line. It is the only one within 100 km.

NLU Felipe Ángeles 35 km

## Distances from MEX

Great circle distance and an estimated time in the air. The longest is Madrid, at 9,065 km.

| To                                                        |     | Distance | Estimated |
| --------------------------------------------------------- | --- | -------- | --------- |
| [Guadalajara](https://orbitflights.app/routes/mex-to-gdl) | GDL | 459 km   | 1h 04m    |
| [Cancún](https://orbitflights.app/routes/mex-to-cun)      | CUN | 1,285 km | 2h 06m    |
| [Los Angeles](https://orbitflights.app/routes/lax-to-mex) | LAX | 2,500 km | 3h 36m    |
| [Lima](https://orbitflights.app/routes/lim-to-mex)        | LIM | 4,245 km | 5h 47m    |
| [Madrid](https://orbitflights.app/routes/mad-to-mex)      | MAD | 9,065 km | 11h 46m   |

[Distance from MEX to any airport →](https://orbitflights.app/distance?from=MEX&to=MAD) [Map a trip from MEX →](https://orbitflights.app/tools/flight-route-map?r=MEX-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 MEX to anywhere →](https://orbitflights.app/distance) [Flights to Mexico City →](https://orbitflights.app/flights-to/mexico-city)

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