Retained scope
multi-gateway national network
China has 25 retained large/medium airport records (25 large, 0 medium) across 1 IANA zone.
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Country airport index
This page lists 25 retained airport records in our curated China airport catalog with IATA and ICAO codes, city names, and local timezone information. Airport records come from OurAirports and timezone rules come from the IANA database. Click any airport for coordinates, elevation, the current local time, and nearby airports.
Content reviewed Apr 30, 2026. This airport index is reviewed as a curated reference surface. It does not claim complete aviation coverage for China; it lists 25 retained airport records (25 large airports) across Asia/Shanghai.
Coverage note. This is an airport-reference index for timezone and travel planning. It focuses on retained large and medium airport records with usable codes and coordinates, not every runway, heliport, closed facility, or local landing strip. Airport service levels, terminal operations, route availability, and codes can change; verify with the airport, airline, NOTAM, or official aviation source before travel.
Country airport evidence
This page is classified as a multi-gateway national network. The evidence score comes from static source coverage: codes, airport facts, official domains, city-clock handoffs, IANA zones, operational facts, and country dossiers where present.
Retained scope
multi-gateway national network
China has 25 retained large/medium airport records (25 large, 0 medium) across 1 IANA zone.
Code and entity coverage
25 IATA, 25 ICAO
25 retained records have airport-facts rows; 24 cite official airport domains and 25 carry Wikidata entity links.
Traffic and operation facts
6 passenger rows
6 records quote passenger-volume facts; 58 runway counts are aggregated where quoted; 25 records carry scheduled-service flags.
Timezone pattern
single airport-timezone cluster
The retained airport set resolves to one dominant local-clock pattern, but each airport still stores its own IANA identifier for DST-safe calculations.
Verification boundary
105 source URLs
Visible source hosts include baiyunairport.com, en.wikipedia.org, wikidata.org, ourairports.com, eguangzhou.gov.cn, ccairport.cn, airport-chongqing.com, cdairport.com. These support identity and static facts, not live routes, terminal assignments, NOTAMs, or airline schedules.
Editorial status
manual dossier attached
Manual dossier sources are attached for country-level aviation context; point-in-time statements still defer to the linked authorities.
Source hosts seen in retained airport facts
Traveler planning patterns
Qingdao Jiaodong International Airport (TAO) is the first retained airport to check for China; then scan the 25 large and 0 medium records for regional alternates.
The retained airport set behaves like a single local-clock cluster, but the airport-specific IANA zone still matters around DST transitions and imported calendar events.
6 airport records link onward to vetted city-time pages, so a code lookup can become a local-clock, daylight, holiday, and meeting-time check.
25 retained records carry a scheduled-service flag, but route availability, airline service, terminals, and disruption notices are not live here.
China has a holiday country page on this site, so use it alongside airport time checks for closures, public-holiday pressure, and ground-service planning.
6 retained airports quote passenger-volume facts. Airports without a quoted figure are not ranked by traffic on this page.
Airport coverage patterns
Country aviation profile
These numbers aggregate the curated airport-facts file across this country’s retained records. Missing fields mean the curation file does not quote that figure; they are not zero-imputed.
International gateways
25
Records flagged with an international-gateway role label.
Scheduled service
25 / 25
Records with the OurAirports “scheduled service” flag set.
Runway records
58
Sum of curated runway counts where the facts file quotes a number.
Curated passenger coverage
6 / 25
Aggregated curated annual volume: 127 million.
Hub airline tags
Gateway evidence matrix
The rows below show why the top airport records are useful beyond a country list: role labels, code identity, timezone, scheduled-service flags, passenger/runway facts where quoted, and the source hosts that back static airport identity.
Qingdao (Jiaozhou) · TAO · Asia/Shanghai
It is located in Jiaodong, Jiaozhou, approximately 39 kilometres (24 mi) from Qingdao city centre.
Operations
scheduled service; 2 runways; longest runway 11,811 ft / 3,600 m; passengers 35 million passengers
Source signals
official site; Wikipedia summary; Wikidata entity; 4 source labels; 20 coverage signals
Shenyang · SHE · Asia/Shanghai
It is located about 20 km (12 mi) south of the city center in Hunnan District.
Operations
scheduled service; 1 runway; longest runway 10,499 ft / 3,200 m; passengers 24,938,062 passengers (2025)
Source signals
official site; Wikipedia summary; Wikidata entity; 4 source labels; 20 coverage signals
Harbin · HRB · Asia/Shanghai
OurAirports classifies HRB as a large airport with scheduled service; the airport name and codes identify it as an international gateway for Harbin.
Operations
scheduled service; 2 runways; longest runway 11,811 ft / 3,600 m; passengers 24,650,717 passengers (2025)
Source signals
official site; Wikipedia summary; Wikidata entity; 4 source labels; 19 coverage signals
Dalian (Ganjingzi) · DLC · Asia/Shanghai
It is located in Ganjingzi District, about 10 km (6.2 mi) northwest of the city center.
Operations
scheduled service; 1 runway; longest runway 10,827 ft / 3,300 m; passengers 19,787,716 passengers
Source signals
official site; Wikipedia summary; Wikidata entity; 4 source labels; 22 coverage signals
Hefei · HFE · Asia/Shanghai
It is located in Shushan District, 31.8 km (19.8 mi) from the city center.
Operations
scheduled service; 1 runway; 108,500 m² first-phase terminal terminals; longest runway 11,155 ft / 3,400 m; passengers 12.645 million passenger movements (2025)
Source signals
official site; Wikipedia summary; Wikidata entity; 5 source labels; 23 coverage signals
Wuxi · WUX · Asia/Shanghai
OurAirports classifies WUX as a large airport with scheduled service; the airport name and codes identify it as an international gateway for Wuxi.
Operations
scheduled service; 1 runway; 2 terminals / 23 boarding gates terminals; longest runway 10,499 ft / 3,200 m; passengers 10 million annual passengers reached in 2024
Source signals
Wikipedia summary; Wikidata entity; 5 source labels; 20 coverage signals
Beijing · PEK · Asia/Shanghai
The airport is located 32 km (20 mi) northeast of downtown Beijing, in an exclave of Chaoyang and the surroundings of that exclave in suburban Shunyi.
Operations
scheduled service; 3 runways; 3 terminals terminals; longest runway 12,467 ft / 3,800 m
Source signals
official site; Wikipedia summary; Wikidata entity; 5 source labels; 23 coverage signals
Beijing · PKX · Asia/Shanghai
OurAirports classifies PKX as a large airport with scheduled service; the airport name and codes identify it as an international gateway for Beijing.
Operations
scheduled service; 4 runways; longest runway 12,467 ft / 3,800 m
Source signals
official site; Wikipedia summary; Wikidata entity; 4 source labels; 16 coverage signals
Time-zone span
All retained airport records resolve to one IANA timezone (Asia/Shanghai, UTC+08:00 CST no DST). Local-clock math is simpler here than in multi-zone countries, but the airport’s stored IANA identifier is still the authoritative reference for DST transition weekends.
Busiest curated airports
These ranks reflect passenger volumes quoted in the curated airport-facts file; airports without a quoted figure are excluded from this card even if they may be locally busier.
Qingdao Jiaodong International Airport
Qingdao (Jiaozhou) · TAO
35 million passengers
2 runways
Shenyang Taoxian International Airport
Shenyang · SHE
24,938,062 passengers (2025)
1 runway
Harbin Taiping International Airport
Harbin · HRB
24,650,717 passengers (2025)
2 runways
Dalian Zhoushuizi International Airport
Dalian (Ganjingzi) · DLC
19,787,716 passengers
1 runway
Hefei Xinqiao International Airport
Hefei · HFE
12.645 million passenger movements (2025)
1 runway · 108,500 m² first-phase terminal terminals
Sunan Shuofang International Airport
Wuxi · WUX
10 million annual passengers reached in 2024
1 runway · 2 terminals / 23 boarding gates terminals
Regional peer comparison
Peers are picked by geographic proximity (same continent) and similarity of retained-record counts. Comparison is structural — it does not audit fleet size, national aviation policy, or passenger traffic.
Country aviation dossier
Chinese civil aviation handled 730 million passenger trips in 2024 — up 18% year-on-year and 10.6% above 2019 — across 5.39 million flights, per the CAAC's January 2025 annual readout. About 640 million were domestic. The Big Three (Air China, China Eastern, China Southern) anchor the international network from Beijing Capital (PEK), Beijing Daxing (PKX), Shanghai Pudong (PVG), and Guangzhou Baiyun (CAN); CAAC continues to enforce the One Route One Airline policy with selective relaxation post-pandemic.
Last verified 2026-05-09 · manually curated. Figures quoted in this paragraph are point-in-time; treat the linked sources as authoritative.
Frequently asked
Reference fields include China's ISO codes, airport slugs and IATA codes, IANA timezone identifiers, top-airport passenger labels, hub-airline tags, and peer-country slugs.
Country overview
The retained catalog currently includes 25 airport records in 24 airport cities or localities. Large airports are shown first because they are usually the most useful entry points for flight planning, timezone checks, and nearby-city lookup.
Retained records
25
Airport localities
24
Timezone records
1 zone
Time-zone planning
For overnight flights, connections near daylight-saving transitions, and cross-border itineraries, use the airport’s IANA timezone instead of assuming every airport follows the country’s primary zone.
Codes, clocks, and city mapping
IATA coverage
25 codes
Useful for passenger-facing flight searches, tickets, airport boards, and quick route lookup.
ICAO coverage
25 codes
Useful for aviation references, flight tracking, weather briefings, and operational documents.
Airport mix
25 large / 0 medium
Gateway airports are prioritized first, but regional airports remain useful for local clock checks.
DST travel risk
Single-zone
Recheck local airport time around overnight arrivals, daylight-saving weekends, and cross-border connections.
These rows connect retained airport records to city-time pages, so a reader can move from a flight code to the local clock, nearby planning context, and meeting-time checks.
Beijing
2 linked airports
PEK Beijing Capital International Airport (Asia/Shanghai); PKX Beijing Daxing International Airport (Asia/Shanghai)
Shanghai (Pudong)
2 linked airports
PVG Shanghai Pudong International Airport (Asia/Shanghai); SHA Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport (Asia/Shanghai)
Guangzhou (Huadu)
1 linked airport
CAN Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport (Asia/Shanghai)
Shenzhen
1 linked airport
SZX Shenzhen Bao'an International Airport (Asia/Shanghai)
Major airport list
These entries are pulled from the same retained catalog as the full table below. Use them as a starting point for local time, code lookup, and nearby-city planning, then verify route and terminal details with the airport or airline.
Beijing Capital International Airport
Beijing
large airport · Asia/Shanghai
Beijing Daxing International Airport
Beijing
large airport · Asia/Shanghai
Changchun Longjia International Airport
Changchun
large airport · Asia/Shanghai
Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport
Chengdu (Shuangliu)
large airport · Asia/Shanghai
Chengdu Tianfu International Airport
Chengdu (Jianyang)
large airport · Asia/Shanghai
Chongqing Jiangbei International Airport
Chongqing
large airport · Asia/Shanghai
Route-planning cues
Start with gateway airports
25 large airports
Use large-airport entries first for broad trip planning, then scan medium airports for regional options.
Check the local clock
1 timezone
Compare airport zones before overnight arrivals, early departures, or daylight-saving changes.
Move to city context
6 linked airports
Linked city pages help turn an airport timezone into a local clock for meetings and ground plans.
Boundary: this page supports code lookup, timezone checks, and city planning. It does not verify active routes, terminals, flight schedules, border rules, or operating notices.
City coverage
Example flight and gate labels are generated for display; local-time values use the timezone records shown on the page.
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