Airport
Los Angeles International Airport LAX
Los Angeles, United States · Large airport · ICAO KLAX
Laid out as a horseshoe of nine terminals, which makes some connections a landside walk or a shuttle rather than a straightforward transfer. Its code kept the X when three-letter codes replaced the older two-letter ones, so LA became LAX.
Reference data
- IATA
- LAX
- ICAO
- KLAX
- Elevation
- 125 ft
- Coordinates
- 33.9425, -118.4080
Local time at LAX
12:35 PDT
Sat, 3 Oct 2026 · UTC−07:00 · America/Los_Angeles
Offsets shift with daylight saving. The time zone planner resolves them for a specific travel date rather than today.
Use LAX in the tools
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Routes covered from LAX
Distances and time-zone comparisons for airport pairs involving LAX. These are reference pages about the geography of a route — not schedules, and not a claim that any airline flies it.
ICN → LAX
Seoul to Los Angeles
9,646 km · about 12h 04m flying
via Seoul
JFK → LAX
New York to Los Angeles
3,983 km · about 5h 19m flying
via New York
LAX → LHR
Los Angeles to London
8,781 km · about 11h 02m flying
via London
LAX → NRT
Los Angeles to Tokyo
8,772 km · about 11h 01m flying
via Tokyo
LAX → SYD
Los Angeles to Sydney
12,051 km · about 14h 56m flying
via Sydney
Staying near LAX
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Nearby airports
Ranked by actual distance from LAX's coordinates, not by name or region. Useful when a fare or a schedule makes a neighbouring airport worth the ground transfer.
| IATA | Airport | City | Distance | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HHR | Jack Northrop Field Hawthorne Municipal Airport | Hawthorne | 7 km | Look up |
| LGB | Long Beach International Airport | Long Beach | 28 km | Look up |
| BUR | Hollywood Burbank/Bob Hope Airport | Burbank | 29 km | Look up |
| SNA | John Wayne Orange County International Airport | Santa Ana | 58 km | Look up |
| ONT | Ontario International Airport | Ontario | 75 km | Look up |
| SBD | San Bernardino International Airport | San Bernardino | 109 km | Look up |
Airlines based here
Carriers in this site's directory that treat LAX as a hub. This is not a list of every airline serving the airport.
Verify anything that matters
Terminals, transfer times and facilities change, and this page does not track them. For operational detail, go to the airport itself.
Official LAX website Los Angeles International Airport on Wikipedia
Where this data comes from
Codes, coordinates and elevation come from the public-domain OurAirports dataset, pinned at build time — 4,133 airports, last refreshed 6 September 2026. The time zone is derived from the coordinates above.