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title: "TPE — Taiwan Taoyuan Airport, Taipei · Orbit"
description: "Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport (TPE/RCTP) serves Taipei, Taiwan. Opened 1979, 47.8 million passengers in 2025, 30 km from Taipei."
url: https://orbitflights.app/airports/tpe
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Taipei · Taiwan · Asia

# TPE — Taiwan Taoyuan

Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport serves Taipei, Taiwan, 30 km from the city centre, and sits at 25.1°N, 121.2°E. This site carries 2 routes touching it, with the great circle distance for each.

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

**ICAO**
RCTP
used by air traffic control

**Opened**
1979
per Wikidata

**Passengers**
47.8M
in 2025

## History & name

Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport opened in 1979 and takes its name from Taoyuan. It lies 30 km from Taipei, is operated by Taoyuan International Airport Corporation, has two runways up to 3,660 m long, and handled 47.8 million passengers in 2025.

Read more: [Wikidata ↗](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44856)

## At a glance

**Full name**
Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport

**Serves**
Taipei, Taiwan

**City centre**
30 km from Taipei

**Opened**
1979

**Operator**
Taoyuan International Airport Corporation

**Passengers**
47.8 million in 2025

**Runways**
2 runways, longest 3,660 m

**Elevation**
106 ft (32 m)

**Map**
[Open in Google Maps ↗](https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=25.07770,121.23300)

**Website**
[taoyuan-airport.com ↗](http://www.taoyuan-airport.com/)

## Where it sits

25.1°N, 121.2°E puts TPE in the northern hemisphere, 2,789 km from the equator and 7,219 km from the North pole.

Of the 661 airports on this site it is the **351st** most northerly, which makes it the 311th most southerly.

## Straight through the middle

Straight down through the centre of the Earth comes out at 25.1°S, 58.8°W — 127 km from Silvio Pettirossi (ASU) in Paraguay, 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 **Taichung International Airport / Ching Chuang Kang** (RMQ), 110 km away in a straight line. Nothing else on this site is within 100 km.

## Distances from TPE

Great circle distance and an estimated time in the air. The longest is Tokyo, at 2,122 km.

| To                                                      |     | Distance | Estimated |
| ------------------------------------------------------- | --- | -------- | --------- |
| [Hong Kong](https://orbitflights.app/routes/hkg-to-tpe) | HKG | 806 km   | 1h 30m    |
| [Tokyo](https://orbitflights.app/routes/hnd-to-tpe)     | HND | 2,122 km | 3h 08m    |

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

## 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 TPE to anywhere →](https://orbitflights.app/distance)

## Flown through TPE?

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