- IATA
- PVG
- the code on your bag tag
- ICAO
- ZSPD
- used by air traffic control
- Routes here
- 7
- in the catalogue
- From the equator
- 3,463 km
- 6,545 km from the North pole
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 |
What’s on this page, and what isn’t
Every figure here is computed from the airport’s coordinates and the rest of the table — distances, bearings, ranks, the antipode. Nothing is written by hand, so nothing on it is a half-remembered fact about a terminal that was rebuilt in 2019.
Which also means what you won’t find: no passenger figures, no terminal maps, no airline lists, no live departures. Orbit is a logbook, not a flight tracker, and a page that invented those would be worse than one that leaves them out.
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