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title: "YVR — Vancouver Airport, Vancouver · Orbit"
description: "Vancouver International Airport (YVR/CYVR) serves Vancouver, Canada. Opened 1929, 26.9 million passengers in 2025, 8 km from Vancouver."
url: https://orbitflights.app/airports/yvr
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Vancouver · Canada · North America

# YVR — Vancouver

Vancouver International Airport serves Vancouver, Canada, 8 km from the city centre, and sits at 49.2°N, 123.2°W. This site carries 5 routes touching it, with the great circle distance for each.

**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 ↗](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vancouver%5FInternational%5FAirport) · [Wikidata ↗](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q321224)

## 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)

**Map**
[Open in Google Maps ↗](https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=49.19390,-123.18400)

**Website**
[yvr.ca ↗](http://www.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.

YXX Abbotsford 63 km YYJ Victoria 63 km

## Distances from YVR

Great circle distance and an estimated time in the air. The longest is Sydney, at 12,501 km.

| To                                                      |     | Distance  | Estimated |
| ------------------------------------------------------- | --- | --------- | --------- |
| [Calgary](https://orbitflights.app/routes/yvr-to-yyc)   | YYC | 687 km    | 1h 21m    |
| [Toronto](https://orbitflights.app/routes/yyz-to-yvr)   | YYZ | 3,346 km  | 4h 39m    |
| [Tokyo](https://orbitflights.app/routes/yvr-to-nrt)     | NRT | 7,503 km  | 9h 49m    |
| [Hong Kong](https://orbitflights.app/routes/yvr-to-hkg) | HKG | 10,269 km | 13h 16m   |
| [Sydney](https://orbitflights.app/routes/yvr-to-syd)    | SYD | 12,501 km | 16h 02m   |

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

## 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 YVR to anywhere →](https://orbitflights.app/distance) [Flights to Vancouver →](https://orbitflights.app/flights-to/vancouver)

## Flown through YVR?

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