- IATA
- PVG
- the code on your bag tag
- ICAO
- ZSPD
- used by air traffic control
- Opened
- 1999
- per Wikidata
- Passengers
- 85M
- in 2025
History & name
Shanghai Pudong International Airport opened in 1999 and takes its name from Pudong and Shanghai. It lies 34 km from Shanghai, has 5 runways up to 4,000 m long and handled 85 million passengers in 2025.
Read more: Wikipedia ↗ · Wikidata ↗
At a glance
- Full name
- Shanghai Pudong International Airport
- Serves
- Shanghai, China
- City centre
- 34 km from Shanghai
- Opened
- 1999
- Passengers
- 85 million in 2025
- Runways
- 5 runways, longest 4,000 m
- Elevation
- 13 ft (4 m)
- Website
- shairport.com ↗
Where it sits
31.1°N, 121.8°E puts PVG in the northern hemisphere, 3,463 km from the equator and 6,545 km from the North pole.
Of the 661 airports on this site it is the 296th most northerly, which makes it the 366th most southerly.
Straight through the middle
Straight down through the centre of the Earth comes out at 31.1°S, 58.2°W — 313 km from Rosario Islas Malvinas (ROS) in Argentina, which is about as close to a true antipodal airport pair as this table gets.
What’s near it
The closest other airport on this site is Shanghai Hongqiao (SHA), 45 km away in a straight line. It is the only one within 100 km.
Distances from PVG
Great circle distance and an estimated time in the air. The longest is Los Angeles, at 10,415 km.
| To | Distance | Estimated | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Seoul | ICN | 822 km | 1h 31m |
| Beijing | PEK | 1,099 km | 1h 52m |
| Hong Kong | HKG | 1,255 km | 2h 04m |
| Tokyo | HND | 1,738 km | 2h 40m |
| London | LHR | 9,241 km | 11h 59m |
| San Francisco | SFO | 9,877 km | 12h 47m |
| Los Angeles | LAX | 10,415 km | 13h 27m |
Where these facts come from
The profile is looked up, not written from memory: type, runways, elevation and the official website from OurAirports (public domain); opening year, namesake, operator and passenger count from Wikidata (CC0); the city centre from GeoNames (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.
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