- IATA
- SIN
- the code on your bag tag
- ICAO
- WSSS
- used by air traffic control
- Opened
- 1981
- per Wikidata
- Passengers
- 58.9M
- in 2023
History & name
Singapore Changi Airport opened in 1981 and takes its name from Singapore and the Changi area. Located 17 km from the city centre, it has two runways of up to 4,000 m and handled 58.9 million passengers in 2023.
Read more: Wikipedia ↗ · Wikidata ↗
At a glance
- Full name
- Singapore Changi Airport
- Serves
- Singapore, Singapore
- City centre
- 17 km from Singapore
- Opened
- 1981
- Passengers
- 58.9 million in 2023
- Runways
- 2 runways, longest 4,000 m
- Elevation
- 22 ft (7 m)
- Website
- changiairport.com ↗
Where it sits
1.4°N, 104.0°E puts SIN in the northern hemisphere, 150 km from the equator and 9,857 km from the North pole.
Of the 661 airports on this site it is the 513th most northerly, which makes it the 149th most southerly.
Straight through the middle
Straight down through the centre of the Earth comes out at 1.4°S, 76.0°W — 294 km from Mariscal Sucre (UIO) in Ecuador, 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 Hang Nadim (BTH), 29 km away in a straight line. 2 airports here sit within 100 km — worth checking which one your ticket actually says.
Distances from SIN
Great circle distance and an estimated time in the air. The longest is São Paulo, at 15,995 km.
| To | Distance | Estimated | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kuala Lumpur | KUL | 297 km | 52m |
| Jakarta | CGK | 882 km | 1h 36m |
| Bangkok | BKK | 1,417 km | 2h 16m |
| Bali | DPS | 1,672 km | 2h 35m |
| Manila | MNL | 2,375 km | 3h 27m |
| Hong Kong | HKG | 2,566 km | 3h 41m |
| Perth | PER | 3,911 km | 5h 22m |
| Tokyo | HND | 5,300 km | 7h 05m |
| Dubai | DXB | 5,846 km | 7h 46m |
| Sydney | SYD | 6,293 km | 8h 19m |
| Istanbul | IST | 8,681 km | 11h 17m |
| Frankfurt | FRA | 10,280 km | 13h 17m |
| Zurich | ZRH | 10,306 km | 13h 18m |
| Amsterdam | AMS | 10,514 km | 13h 34m |
| Paris | CDG | 10,724 km | 13h 50m |
| London | LHR | 10,883 km | 14h 01m |
| San Francisco | SFO | 13,582 km | 17h 23m |
| Los Angeles | LAX | 14,102 km | 18h 01m |
| Los Angeles | LAX | 14,102 km | 18h 01m |
| Newark | EWR | 15,337 km | 19h 34m |
| New York | JFK | 15,341 km | 19h 34m |
| São Paulo | GRU | 15,995 km | 20h 23m |
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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