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Victoria International Airport

ICAO CYYJ48.6472°N 123.4278°W19 m / 63 ftLarge airport
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Victoria International Airport (IATA: YYJ, ICAO: CYYJ) is a large airport in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. It opened in 1914. It has 3 runways; the longest is 2,134 m (7,000 ft). It is operated by Transport Canada. In 2025 it handled 2.0 million passengers.

Timeline

1 event · 1914–1914
1914
OpenedVictoria International Airport opens.
From WikidataEvery airfield, 1903–2026

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap
Victoria International Airport
09/27105° / 285° · LIT
LENGTH2,134 m7,000 ftWIDTH61 m200 ftSURFACEAsphalt
03/21044° / 224° · LIT
LENGTH1,532 m5,027 ftWIDTH61 m200 ftSURFACEAsphalt
14/32152° / 332° · LIT
LENGTH1,524 m5,001 ftWIDTH61 m200 ftSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2014–2025
1.7M
1.7M
1.9M
1.9M
2.0M
1.9M
575K
674K
1.5M
1.7M
1.9M
2.0M
141516171819202122232425

Routes

14 destinations · 3 countries
1,000 km2,000 km3,000 km4,000 km1,000 mi2,000 mi3,000 miFRD · Friday Harbor Airport · 33 km / 21 miYVR · Vancouver International Airport · 63 km / 39 miSEA · Seattle–Tacoma International Airport · 157 km / 98 miYLW · Kelowna International Airport · 328 km / 204 miYYC · Calgary International Airport · 728 km / 452 miYEG · Edmonton International Airport · 861 km / 535 miYXY · Whitehorse / Erik Nielsen International Airport · 1,531 km / 951 miYYZ · Toronto Pearson International Airport · 3,371 km / 2,095 miYOW · Ottawa Macdonald-Cartier International Airport · 3,582 km / 2,226 miYWG · Winnipeg / James Armstrong Richardson International Airport · 1,895 km / 1,177 miSJD · Los Cabos International Airport · 3,081 km / 1,914 miPVR · Puerto Vallarta International Airport · 3,506 km / 2,179 miYUL · Montreal / Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport · 3,713 km / 2,307 miCUN · Cancún International Airport · 4,460 km / 2,771 miCUNYULPVRYYZSJDYWGYXYYEGYYCYLWSEAYOWYVRFRDYYJ
Most destinationsWestJet 6WestJet Encore 4Air North 2Porter Airlines 2Air Canada 2Flair Airlines 2

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from YYJ. Dashed: seasonal or charter. From the Wikipedia article “Victoria International Airport” (revision of 14 Sep 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country
Passengers2.0M (2025)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#572of 3,974 · #136 North America · #10 CALongest runway2,134 m7,000 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=3,488of 29,823 · =832 North America · =56 CAElevation19 m63 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=38,503of 43,341 · =17,493 North America · #1,348 CAAgeOpened 19142026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=81of 15,079 · =11 North America · #1 CARunways31 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=151of 29,943 · =83 North America · =4 CA
Scale: share of airports ranked below, best on the right · ties shown as = and a band · passengers are each airport’s latest year on record

Radio frequencies

14 channels
TMLVictoria Terminal127.800
ATISATIS118.800
CLDCLNC DEL126.400
MFKamloops Radio, 08-14Z, 7nm below 2500ASL119.700
GNDGND121.900
PVT ADVESSO122.950
MILStinger ops, 443 Squadron349.300
TWRVictoria Tower (outer unless closed by ATIS)119.100
PVT ADVShell122.850
TWRVictoria Tower (inner)119.700
ARRVictoria Arrivals125.950
DEPVictoria Departures133.850
RCOKamloops Radio (RAAS), 08-14Z119.700
RCOPacific Radio (FISE)122.375