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Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport

Guangzhou, ChinaIATA: CANICAO: ZGGG
Current airport: CAN

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The runways at this airport

What do the colors mean?

  • No traffic seen The runway is there, but we see nothing on it right now.
  • Arriving traffic Aircraft are descending toward this runway right now.
  • Departing traffic Aircraft are climbing out from this runway right now.
  • Direction unknown It says “in use now” without an arrow: we see traffic, but the aircraft does not report whether it is climbing or descending.

The white arrow on the runway points the way the traffic is going. Derived from the positions of aircraft flying low near the airport right now. Not an official runway plan; what we see.

Designation, direction and length of every runway. These rarely change; which one is in use right now shows up here whenever we observe traffic.

4 runways · Longest runway: 12,467 ft

  • 02L/20R12,467 ft · heading 14/194 degrees
  • 02R/20L12,467 ft · heading 14/194 degrees
  • 01R/19L11,811 ft · heading 14/194 degrees
  • 03/2111,811 ft · heading 14/193 degrees

We currently see no traffic on approach or just after takeoff. That happens at a quiet airport or in the middle of the night.

Runway data: OurAirports, public domain.

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Practical information

Full name
Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport
City and country
Guangzhou, China
IATA / ICAO
CAN / ZGGG
Time zone
Asia/Shanghai
Terminal
1, 2, 3
Category
International hub

Terminals: © OpenStreetMap contributors

Guangzhou Baiyun: the hub of China Southern

Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport (IATA CAN, ICAO ZGGG) lies in Huadu, about 28 kilometers north of the center of Guangzhou in southern China. It is one of the busiest airports in the world and the home base of China Southern Airlines, the largest carrier in Asia, which uses it as a transfer point between Europe, Australia and the whole of China and Southeast Asia. For travelers from Europe it is both the gateway to the Pearl River Delta and a cheap way to reach Australia or Southeast Asia with one stop. The radar on this page shows what our data sources report around Guangzhou; the arrivals and departures pages are linked above it.

Airlines and destinations

China Southern dominates the airport with hundreds of daily flights across China and to Amsterdam, Paris, London, Frankfurt, Sydney, Melbourne, Auckland, Los Angeles and most capitals of Southeast Asia. Hainan Airlines, Air China and China Eastern fly the domestic trunk routes, and Emirates, Qatar Airways, Turkish Airlines, Singapore Airlines, Thai Airways and Malaysia Airlines connect Guangzhou with their hubs. Our own receivers see almost nothing over mainland China, so the live radar on this page is quieter than the real sky; the arrivals and departures boards are the better guide to what is happening.

Getting into Guangzhou

Metro Line 3 runs from stations under both terminals into the city in about 45 minutes, and the Guangzhou East high-speed rail station connects onward to Shenzhen and Hong Kong. Airport buses serve the main hotel districts and the neighboring cities of the delta, including Foshan and Dongguan. Taxis use the meter and take 45 minutes to an hour downtown; ride-hailing works through DiDi, and most drivers do not speak English, so have your destination written in Chinese. Payment in China runs on Alipay and WeChat Pay, which foreign cards can now be linked to; cash is accepted but increasingly rare.

Good to know

Baiyun has two terminals, T1 and T2, connected by a free shuttle and by the metro; China Southern and its SkyTeam partners use T2, most other airlines T1. Transit passengers from many countries can stay in Guangzhou for several days without a visa under China's transit exemption, but the conditions are strict and change, so check them before you book. Immigration queues are long when the long-haul arrivals bunch in the early morning. Hong Kong's Chek Lap Kok and Shenzhen Bao'an are the other big airports of the delta, each about two hours away by train or ferry. Every airport we track is listed in the airport overview.