Airports in China
261 airports with scheduled flights, busiest first.
China has 261 airports with scheduled passenger flights and an IATA code, 69 of them large. The busiest are Shanghai Pudong International Airport (PVG, 85.0 million passengers, Wikidata, 2025), Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport (CAN, 76.4 million passengers, Wikidata, 2024) and Shenzhen Bao'an International Airport (SZX, 66.5 million passengers, Wikidata, 2025). Beijing, Chengdu and Shanghai have more than one airport; a city code (BJS for Beijing, CTU for Chengdu, SHA for Shanghai) stands for all of a city's airports on tickets and in flight searches.
Cities with more than one airport
Busiest routes
| Route | Distance | Passengers |
|---|---|---|
| ICN – PVG | 821 km | 1,111,272 (6 mo) |
| ICN – TAO | 580 km | 797,360 (6 mo) |
| FRA – PVG | 8,879 km | 593,063 |
| CDG – PVG | 9,287 km | 572,000 |
| CDG – PEK | 8,211 km | 534,434 |
| CAN – SYD | 7,507 km | 531,074 |
| FRA – PEK | 7,810 km | 515,204 |
| ICN – PEK | 903 km | 449,280 (6 mo) |
| PVG – SYD | 7,837 km | 443,291 |
| LAX – PVG | 10,436 km | 436,076 |
| MEL – PVG | 7,986 km | 404,295 |
| CAN – ICN | 2,003 km | 403,252 (6 mo) |
| CAN – MEL | 7,522 km | 393,969 |
| AMS – PVG | 8,930 km | 368,871 |
| IST – PVG | 8,039 km | 358,350 |
| ICN – SZX | 2,043 km | 320,868 (6 mo) |
| DLC – ICN | 461 km | 301,980 (6 mo) |
| MUC – PEK | 7,742 km | 300,852 |
| PVG – SFO | 9,898 km | 300,361 |
| BNE – CAN | 7,062 km | 273,166 |
Questions
China has 261 airports with scheduled passenger flights and an IATA code, 69 of them large airports (OurAirports, 14 October 2026). Airfields without airline service are not counted.
Shanghai Pudong International Airport (PVG), Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport (CAN), Shenzhen Bao'an International Airport (SZX), Chengdu Tianfu International Airport (TFU), Beijing Daxing International Airport (PKX) and Beijing Capital International Airport (PEK), by passengers a year in open data. The full list with ICAO codes is on this page.
Shanghai Pudong International Airport (PVG), with 85.0 million passengers (Wikidata, 2025).
Beijing (BJS: PEK, PKX), Chengdu (CTU: CTU, TFU) and Shanghai (SHA: PVG, SHA).