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title: "YYC — Calgary Airport, Calgary · Orbit"
description: "Calgary International Airport (YYC/CYYC) serves Calgary, Canada. Opened 1939, named after Frederick McCall, 18.5 million passengers in 2024, 9 km from Calgary."
url: https://orbitflights.app/airports/yyc
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Calgary · Canada · North America

# YYC — Calgary

Calgary International Airport serves Calgary, Canada, 9 km from the city centre, and sits at 51.1°N, 114.0°W. This site carries 1 route touching it, with the great circle distance for each.

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

**ICAO**
CYYC
used by air traffic control

**Opened**
1939
per Wikidata

**Passengers**
18.5M
in 2024

## History & name

Calgary International Airport opened in 1939 and takes its name from Calgary and from the Canadian air ace Frederick McCall. Operated by Transport Canada, it sits 9 km from Calgary at 3,557 feet, has 3 runways up to 4,267 m and handled 18.5 million passengers in 2024.

Named after **Frederick McCall** — Canadian air ace

Read more: [Wikipedia ↗](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calgary%5FInternational%5FAirport) · [Wikidata ↗](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1160343)

## At a glance

**Full name**
Calgary International Airport

**Serves**
Calgary, Canada

**City centre**
9 km from Calgary

**Opened**
1939

**Operator**
Transport Canada

**Passengers**
18.5 million in 2024

**Runways**
3 runways, longest 4,267 m

**Elevation**
3,557 ft (1,084 m)

**Map**
[Open in Google Maps ↗](https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=51.11880,-114.00990)

**Website**
[calgaryairport.com ↗](http://www.calgaryairport.com/)

## Where it sits

51.1°N, 114.0°W puts YYC in the northern hemisphere, 5,684 km from the equator and 4,323 km from the North pole.

Of the 661 airports on this site it is the **59th** most northerly, which makes it the 603rd most southerly.

## Straight through the middle

Straight down through the centre of the Earth comes out at 51.1°S, 66.0°E. The nearest airport on this site to that point is Roland Garros (RUN) in Réunion, still 3,483 km away — most of the planet's antipodes are ocean.

## What’s near it

The closest other airport on this site is **Edmonton** (YEG), 245 km away in a straight line. Nothing else on this site is within 100 km.

## Distances from YYC

Great circle distance and an estimated time in the air.

| To                                                      |     | Distance | Estimated |
| ------------------------------------------------------- | --- | -------- | --------- |
| [Vancouver](https://orbitflights.app/routes/yvr-to-yyc) | YVR | 687 km   | 1h 21m    |

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

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

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