Bellingham International Airport

ICAO KBLI48.7928°N 122.5380°W171 ft / 52 mMedium airport

Bellingham International Airport (IATA: BLI, ICAO: KBLI) is a medium airport in Bellingham, Washington, United States. It opened in 1940. It has one runway, 6,700 ft (2,042 m) long, asphalt. It is operated by Port of Bellingham. In 2025 it handled 446 thousand passengers.

Timeline

1 event · 1940–1940

1940

OpenedBellingham International Airport opens.

From WikidataEvery airfield, 1903–2026

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap · FAA diagram PDF

16/34180° / 360° · LIT

LENGTH6,700 ft2,042 mWIDTH150 ft46 mSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2014–2025

1.1M

888K

824K

729K

721K

655K

187K

316K

638K

622K

532K

446K

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Routes

6 destinations · 1 country

Year-round6

ESDOrcas Island AirportUnited States · San Juan Airlines29 km18 mi LPSLopez Island AirportUnited States · San Juan Airlines45 km28 mi FRDFriday Harbor AirportUnited States · San Juan Airlines47 km29 mi RCERoche Harbor AirportUnited States · San Juan Airlines48 km30 mi SEASeattle–Tacoma International AirportUnited States · Alaska Airlines150 km93 mi PDXPortland International AirportUnited States · Alaska Airlines356 km221 mi

Most destinationsSan Juan Airlines 4Alaska Airlines 2

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from BLI. From the Wikipedia article “Bellingham International Airport” (revision of 19 Jul 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country

Passengers446K (2025)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#1,166of 3,974 · #269 North America · #184 US Longest runway6,700 ft2,042 m46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=3,738of 29,823 · =929 North America · =709 US Elevation171 ft52 m-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=34,632of 43,341 · =15,806 North America · =13,291 US AgeOpened 19402026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=1,114of 15,079 · =366 North America · =338 US Runways11 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=4,360of 29,943 · =2,582 North America · =2,325 US

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

7 channels

A/DVICTORIA APP/DEP132.700

ATISATIS134.450

CTAFCTAF124.900

GNDGND127.400

RDOSEATTLE RDO122.150

TWRTWR124.900

UNICUNICOM122.950