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title: "PVG — Shanghai Pudong Airport, Shanghai · Orbit"
description: "Shanghai Pudong International Airport (PVG/ZSPD) serves Shanghai, China. Opened 1999, 85 million passengers in 2025, 34 km from Shanghai."
url: https://orbitflights.app/airports/pvg
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Shanghai · China · Asia

# PVG — Shanghai Pudong

Shanghai Pudong International Airport serves Shanghai, China, 34 km from the city centre, and sits at 31.1°N, 121.8°E. This site carries 7 routes touching it, with the great circle distance for each.

**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 ↗](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghai%5FPudong%5FInternational%5FAirport) · [Wikidata ↗](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q36420)

## 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)

**Map**
[Open in Google Maps ↗](https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=31.14340,121.80500)

**Website**
[shairport.com ↗](https://www.shairport.com/enpd/)

## 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.

SHA Shanghai Hongqiao 45 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](https://orbitflights.app/routes/icn-to-pvg)         | ICN | 822 km    | 1h 31m    |
| [Beijing](https://orbitflights.app/routes/pek-to-pvg)       | PEK | 1,099 km  | 1h 52m    |
| [Hong Kong](https://orbitflights.app/routes/hkg-to-pvg)     | HKG | 1,255 km  | 2h 04m    |
| [Tokyo](https://orbitflights.app/routes/hnd-to-pvg)         | HND | 1,738 km  | 2h 40m    |
| [London](https://orbitflights.app/routes/lhr-to-pvg)        | LHR | 9,241 km  | 11h 59m   |
| [San Francisco](https://orbitflights.app/routes/sfo-to-pvg) | SFO | 9,877 km  | 12h 47m   |
| [Los Angeles](https://orbitflights.app/routes/lax-to-pvg)   | LAX | 10,415 km | 13h 27m   |

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

## Flown through PVG?

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