# Whale Cove Airport (YXN / CYXN)

**Whale Cove Airport** (IATA: YXN, ICAO: CYXN) is a small airport in Whale Cove, Nunavut, Canada. It has one runway, 1,219 m (4,000 ft) long. In 2011 it handled 6 thousand passengers.

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

## At a glance

- IATA / ICAO: YXN / CYXN
- Type: Small airport
- Serves: Whale Cove, Nunavut, Canada
- Elevation: 12 m / 40 ft
- Coordinates: 62.2400, -92.5981
- Runways: 1
- Longest runway: 1,219 m / 4,000 ft
- Passengers: 6,178 (2011)
- Time zone: UTC-6/-5 · America/Rankin_Inlet
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whale_Cove_Airport (12 languages)
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q387108
- Weather station: CYXN
- Ident: CYXN

## Runways

| Ident | Length | Width | Surface | True headings | Lighted |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 15T/33T | 1,219 m / 4,000 ft |  |  |  |  |

## Routes

1 destination in 1 country. From the airport's Wikipedia article.

### Year-round (1)

- [YRT](https://dromopedia.com/airports/cyrt.md) Rankin Inlet Airport · Canada · 68 km / 42 mi · Calm Air

## Airlines

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

### Passenger (1)

- MO [Calm Air](https://dromopedia.com/airlines/calm-air) · 1

## Rankings

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

| Measure | Value | World | Region | Country |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Passengers | 6K (2011) | =2,871 of 3,974 | =735 in North America | #84 in CA |
| Longest runway | 1,219 m / 4,000 ft | =9,646 of 29,858 | =3,829 in North America | =325 in CA |
| Elevation | 12 m / 40 ft | =39,802 of 43,403 | =18,013 in North America | =1,370 in CA |
| Runways | 1 | =4,364 of 29,978 | =2,583 in North America | =233 in CA |

## Nearby airports

- [YRT](https://dromopedia.com/airports/cyrt.md) Rankin Inlet Airport · 68 km / 42 mi
- [YEK](https://dromopedia.com/airports/cyek.md) Arviat Airport · 149 km / 93 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: “Whale Cove Airport”](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Whale_Cove_Airport&oldid=1363087504), 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/cyxn/data