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title: "PEK — Beijing Capital Airport, Beijing · Orbit"
description: "Beijing Capital International Airport (PEK/ZBAA) serves Beijing, China. Opened 1958, 52.9 million passengers in 2024, 25 km from Beijing."
url: https://orbitflights.app/airports/pek
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Beijing · China · Asia

# PEK — Beijing Capital

Beijing Capital International Airport serves Beijing, China, 25 km from the city centre, and sits at 40.1°N, 116.6°E. This site carries 5 routes touching it, with the great circle distance for each.

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

**ICAO**
ZBAA
used by air traffic control

**Opened**
1958
per Wikidata

**Passengers**
52.9M
in 2024

## History & name

Beijing Capital International Airport opened in 1958 and is operated by the Civil Aviation Administration of China. It lies 25 km from Beijing, has 3 runways up to 3,800 m long and handled 52.9 million passengers in 2024.

Read more: [Wikipedia ↗](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beijing%5FCapital%5FInternational%5FAirport) · [Wikidata ↗](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q32190)

## At a glance

**Full name**
Beijing Capital International Airport

**Serves**
Beijing, China

**City centre**
25 km from Beijing

**Opened**
1958

**Operator**
Civil Aviation Administration of China

**Passengers**
52.9 million in 2024

**Runways**
3 runways, longest 3,800 m

**Elevation**
116 ft (35 m)

**Map**
[Open in Google Maps ↗](https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=40.07730,116.59670)

**Website**
[en.bcia.com.cn ↗](https://en.bcia.com.cn/)

## Where it sits

40.1°N, 116.6°E puts PEK in the northern hemisphere, 4,456 km from the equator and 5,551 km from the North pole.

Of the 661 airports on this site it is the **175th** most northerly, which makes it the 487th most southerly.

## Straight through the middle

Straight down through the centre of the Earth comes out at 40.1°S, 63.4°W. The nearest airport on this site to that point is Presidente Perón (NQN) in Argentina, still 426 km away — most of the planet's antipodes are ocean.

## What’s near it

The closest other airport on this site is **Beijing Daxing** (PKX), 66 km away in a straight line. It is the only one within 100 km.

PKX Beijing Daxing 66 km

## Distances from PEK

Great circle distance and an estimated time in the air. The longest is Los Angeles, at 10,037 km.

| To                                                        |     | Distance  | Estimated |
| --------------------------------------------------------- | --- | --------- | --------- |
| [Shanghai](https://orbitflights.app/routes/pek-to-pvg)    | PVG | 1,099 km  | 1h 52m    |
| [Hong Kong](https://orbitflights.app/routes/pek-to-hkg)   | HKG | 1,992 km  | 2h 58m    |
| [Munich](https://orbitflights.app/routes/muc-to-pek)      | MUC | 7,722 km  | 10h 06m   |
| [London](https://orbitflights.app/routes/lhr-to-pek)      | LHR | 8,154 km  | 10h 38m   |
| [Los Angeles](https://orbitflights.app/routes/lax-to-pek) | LAX | 10,037 km | 12h 58m   |

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

## 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 PEK to anywhere →](https://orbitflights.app/distance) [Flights to Beijing →](https://orbitflights.app/flights-to/beijing)

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