- IATA
- YVR
- the code on your bag tag
- ICAO
- CYVR
- used by air traffic control
- Opened
- 1929
- per Wikidata
- Passengers
- 26.9M
- in 2025
History & name
Vancouver International Airport opened in 1929 and lies 8 km from Vancouver, just 14 feet above sea level. It has 3 runways, the longest 3,505 m, and handled 26.9 million passengers in 2025.
Read more: Wikipedia ↗ · Wikidata ↗
At a glance
- Full name
- Vancouver International Airport
- Serves
- Vancouver, Canada
- City centre
- 8 km from Vancouver
- Opened
- 1929
- Passengers
- 26.9 million in 2025
- Runways
- 3 runways, longest 3,505 m
- Elevation
- 14 ft (4 m)
- Website
- yvr.ca ↗
Where it sits
49.2°N, 123.2°W puts YVR in the northern hemisphere, 5,470 km from the equator and 4,537 km from the North pole.
Of the 661 airports on this site it is the 75th most northerly, which makes it the 587th most southerly.
Straight through the middle
Straight down through the centre of the Earth comes out at 49.2°S, 56.8°E. The nearest airport on this site to that point is Chief Dawid Stuurman (PLZ) in South Africa, still 3,063 km away — most of the planet's antipodes are ocean.
What’s near it
The closest other airport on this site is Abbotsford (YXX), 63 km away in a straight line. 2 airports here sit within 100 km — worth checking which one your ticket actually says.
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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