# La Grande Rivière Airport (YGL / CYGL)

**La Grande Rivière Airport** (IATA: YGL, ICAO: CYGL) is a medium airport in La Grande Rivière, Quebec, Canada. It has one runway, 1,981 m (6,500 ft) long, asphalt. In 2011 it handled 6 thousand passengers.

Web page: https://dromopedia.com/airports/cygl

## At a glance

- IATA / ICAO: YGL / CYGL
- Type: Medium airport
- Serves: La Grande Rivière, Quebec, Canada
- Elevation: 195 m / 639 ft
- Coordinates: 53.6253, -77.7042
- Runways: 1
- Longest runway: 1,981 m / 6,500 ft
- Passengers: 5,789 (2011)
- Time zone: UTC-5/-4 · America/Toronto
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Grande_Rivi%C3%A8re_Airport (11 languages)
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2875899
- Weather station: CYGL · WMO 71827
- Ident: CYGL

## Runways

| Ident | Length | Width | Surface | True headings | Lighted |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 13/31 | 1,981 m / 6,500 ft | 46 m / 150 ft | Asphalt | 113° / 293° | yes |

## Routes

3 destinations in 1 country. From the airport's Wikipedia article.

### Year-round (3)

- [YGW](https://dromopedia.com/airports/cygw.md) Kuujjuarapik Airport · Canada · 184 km / 114 mi · Air Inuit
- [YPX](https://dromopedia.com/airports/cypx.md) Puvirnituq Airport · Canada · 715 km / 444 mi · Air Inuit
- [YUL](https://dromopedia.com/airports/cyul.md) Montreal / Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport · Canada · 951 km / 591 mi · Air Inuit

## Airlines

The figure is how many destinations each airline flies from YGL, as the routes above have them. Hubs from Wikidata.

### Passenger (1)

- 3H [Air Inuit](https://dromopedia.com/airlines/air-inuit) · 3

## Rankings

Ranked among 48,075 open airports; = marks a shared place.

| Measure | Value | World | Region | Country |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Passengers | 6K (2011) | #2,890 of 3,974 | #747 in North America | #86 in CA |
| Longest runway | 1,981 m / 6,500 ft | =4,091 of 29,858 | =1,025 in North America | =70 in CA |
| Elevation | 195 m / 639 ft | =24,656 of 43,403 | =11,844 in North America | #1,013 in CA |
| Runways | 1 | =4,364 of 29,978 | =2,583 in North America | =233 in CA |

## Radio frequencies

| Type | Description | MHz |
| --- | --- | --- |
| A/G | MF | 122.300 |
| CNTR | MONTREAL CNTR | 132.100 |
| RCO | QUEBEC RDO | 126.700 |
| RDO | RDO | 122.300 |

## Nearby airports

- [YKU](https://dromopedia.com/airports/csu2.md) Chisasibi Airport · 82 km / 51 mi
- [YAR](https://dromopedia.com/airports/cyad.md) La Grande-3 Airport · 100 km / 62 mi
- [YNC](https://dromopedia.com/airports/cync.md) Wemindji Airport · 101 km / 63 mi
- [CEL8](https://dromopedia.com/airports/cel8.md) Eleonore Aerodrome · 148 km / 92 mi

## Sources

- [NOAA Aviation Weather Center](https://aviationweather.gov/data/api/): Weather data: NOAA Aviation Weather Center (Public Domain (US Government))
- [OurAirports](https://ourairports.com/data/): Airport data from OurAirports (Public Domain)
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org): Structured data from Wikidata (CC0 1.0)
- [Wikipedia: “La Grande Rivière Airport”](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=La_Grande_Rivière_Airport&oldid=1363051308), revision of 7 Jul 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- [timezone-boundary-builder](https://github.com/evansiroky/timezone-boundary-builder): Time zone boundaries © OpenStreetMap contributors, timezone-boundary-builder (ODbL 1.0)
- Every figure with its source: https://dromopedia.com/airports/cygl/data