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title: "ZQN — Queenstown Airport, Queenstown · Orbit"
description: "Queenstown Airport (ZQN/NZQN) serves Queenstown, New Zealand. Opened 1935, 1.2 million passengers in 2021. Map, website and distances to 1 destination."
url: https://orbitflights.app/airports/zqn
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Queenstown · New Zealand · Oceania

# ZQN — Queenstown

Queenstown Airport serves Queenstown, New Zealand, and sits at 45.0°S, 168.7°E. This site carries 1 route touching it, with the great circle distance for each.

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

**ICAO**
NZQN
used by air traffic control

**Opened**
1935
per Wikidata

**Passengers**
1.2M
in 2021

## History & name

Queenstown Airport opened in 1935 and takes its name from Queenstown, New Zealand. It has two runways, the longer 1,891 m, sits at 1,171 feet and handled 1.2 million passengers in 2021.

Read more: [Wikipedia ↗](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queenstown%5FInternational%5FAirport) · [Wikidata ↗](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1204970)

## At a glance

**Full name**
Queenstown Airport

**Serves**
Queenstown, New Zealand

**Opened**
1935

**Passengers**
1.2 million in 2021

**Runways**
2 runways, longest 1,891 m

**Elevation**
1,171 ft (357 m)

**Map**
[Open in Google Maps ↗](https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=-45.01920,168.74640)

**Website**
[queenstownairport.co.nz ↗](https://www.queenstownairport.co.nz/)

## Where it sits

45.0°S, 168.7°E puts ZQN in the southern hemisphere, 5,006 km from the equator and 5,002 km from the South pole.

Of the 661 airports on this site it is the **657th** most northerly, which makes it the 5th most southerly.

## Straight through the middle

Straight down through the centre of the Earth comes out at 45.0°N, 11.3°W. The nearest airport on this site to that point is Francisco de Sá Carneiro (OPO) in Portugal, still 468 km away — most of the planet's antipodes are ocean.

## What’s near it

The closest other airport on this site is **Dunedin** (DUD), 152 km away in a straight line. Nothing else on this site is within 100 km.

## Distances from ZQN

Great circle distance and an estimated time in the air.

| To                                                     |     | Distance | Estimated |
| ------------------------------------------------------ | --- | -------- | --------- |
| [Auckland](https://orbitflights.app/routes/akl-to-zqn) | AKL | 1,024 km | 1h 46m    |

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

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

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