Airport

Beijing Capital International Airport PEK

Beijing, China · Large airport · ICAO ZBAA

Beijing Capital was the country's principal gateway for decades and remains very large, though much traffic moved to Daxing after 2019. Terminal 3 was among the world's largest buildings when it opened for the 2008 Olympics.

Reference data

IATA
PEK
ICAO
ZBAA
Elevation
116 ft
Coordinates
40.0774, 116.5967

Local time at PEK

03:35 GMT+8

Sun, 4 Oct 2026 · UTC+08:00 · Asia/Shanghai

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PEK
Beijing Capital International Airport at 40.08, 116.60.

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Nearby airports

Ranked by actual distance from PEK's coordinates, not by name or region. Useful when a fare or a schedule makes a neighbouring airport worth the ground transfer.

IATAAirportCityDistance
PKX Beijing Daxing International Airport Beijing 66 km Details
TSN Tianjin Binhai International Airport Tianjin 124 km Look up
ZQZ Zhangjiakou Ningyuan Airport Zhangjiakou 159 km Look up
CDE Chengde Puning Airport Chengde 170 km Look up
BPE Qinhuangdao Beidaihe Airport Qinhuangdao 215 km Look up
SJW Shijiazhuang Zhengding International Airport Shijiazhuang 258 km Look up

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Official PEK website Beijing Capital 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.

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