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title: "YYZ — Toronto Pearson Airport, Toronto · Orbit"
description: "Toronto Pearson International Airport (YYZ/CYYZ) serves Toronto, Canada. Opened 1939, named after Lester B. Pearson, 45.7 million passengers in 2024, 19 km from Toronto."
url: https://orbitflights.app/airports/yyz
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Toronto · Canada · North America

# YYZ — Toronto Pearson

Toronto Pearson International Airport serves Toronto, Canada, 19 km from the city centre, and sits at 43.7°N, 79.6°W. This site carries 4 routes touching it, with the great circle distance for each.

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

**ICAO**
CYYZ
used by air traffic control

**Opened**
1939
per Wikidata

**Passengers**
45.7M
in 2024

## History & name

Toronto Pearson International Airport opened in 1939 and honours Lester B. Pearson (1897–1972), Prime Minister of Canada from 1963 to 1968\. The Greater Toronto Airports Authority operates it 19 km from Toronto, with 5 runways up to 3,389 m, and it handled 45.7 million passengers in 2024.

Named after **Lester B. Pearson** — 14th Prime Minister of Canada, from 1963 to 1968 (1897–1972)

Read more: [Wikipedia ↗](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toronto%5FPearson%5FInternational%5FAirport) · [Wikidata ↗](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q242066)

## At a glance

**Full name**
Toronto Pearson International Airport

**Serves**
Toronto, Canada

**City centre**
19 km from Toronto

**Opened**
1939

**Operator**
Greater Toronto Airports Authority

**Passengers**
45.7 million in 2024

**Runways**
5 runways, longest 3,389 m

**Elevation**
569 ft (173 m)

**Map**
[Open in Google Maps ↗](https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=43.67590,-79.62940)

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

## Where it sits

43.7°N, 79.6°W puts YYZ in the northern hemisphere, 4,857 km from the equator and 5,151 km from the North pole.

Of the 661 airports on this site it is the **123rd** most northerly, which makes it the 539th most southerly.

## Straight through the middle

Straight down through the centre of the Earth comes out at 43.7°S, 100.4°E. The nearest airport on this site to that point is Perth (PER) in Australia, still 1,886 km away — most of the planet's antipodes are ocean.

## What’s near it

The closest other airport on this site is **Billy Bishop Toronto City** (YTZ), 20 km away in a straight line. It is the only one within 100 km.

YTZ Billy Bishop Toronto City 20 km

## Distances from YYZ

Great circle distance and an estimated time in the air. The longest is London, at 5,707 km.

| To                                                      |     | Distance | Estimated |
| ------------------------------------------------------- | --- | -------- | --------- |
| [Montréal](https://orbitflights.app/routes/yyz-to-yul)  | YUL | 507 km   | 1h 08m    |
| [New York](https://orbitflights.app/routes/jfk-to-yyz)  | JFK | 588 km   | 1h 14m    |
| [Vancouver](https://orbitflights.app/routes/yyz-to-yvr) | YVR | 3,346 km | 4h 39m    |
| [London](https://orbitflights.app/routes/lhr-to-yyz)    | LHR | 5,707 km | 7h 36m    |

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

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

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