Valley International Airport

ICAO KHRL26.2285°N 97.6544°W36 ft / 11 mMedium airport

HarlingenTX-15jan1995 — United States Geological Survey · Public domain · Commons

Valley International Airport (IATA: HRL, ICAO: KHRL) is a medium airport in Harlingen, Texas, United States. It opened in Jul 1943. It has 3 runways; the longest is 9,400 ft (2,865 m). In 2025 it handled 1.2 million passengers.

Timeline

1 event · 1943–1943

JUL 1943

OpenedValley International Airport opens.

From Wikidata · FAAEvery airfield, 1903–2026

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap · FAA diagram PDF

18R/36L181° / 001° · LIT

LENGTH9,400 ft2,865 mWIDTH150 ft46 mSURFACEAsphalt

13/31136° / 316° · LIT

LENGTH7,257 ft2,212 mWIDTH150 ft46 mSURFACEAsphalt

18L/36R181° / 001° · LIT

LENGTH5,950 ft1,814 mWIDTH150 ft46 mSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2014–2025

587K

513K

521K

543K

601K

663K

348K

670K

938K

1.0M

1.1M

1.2M

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Routes

10 destinations · 2 countries

Year-round5

AUSAustin Bergstrom International AirportUnited States · Southwest Airlines441 km274 mi HOUWilliam P. Hobby AirportUnited States · Southwest Airlines446 km277 mi IAHGeorge Bush Intercontinental AirportUnited States · United Express475 km295 mi DALDallas Love FieldUnited States · Southwest Airlines740 km460 mi DFWDallas Fort Worth International AirportUnited States · American Eagle744 km462 mi

Seasonal3

CUNCancún International AirportMexico · Sun Country Airlines1,240 km771 mi ORDChicago O'Hare International AirportUnited States · American Eagle1,965 km1,221 mi MSPMinneapolis–Saint Paul International Airport / Wold–Chamberlain FieldUnited States · Delta Air Lines, Sun Country Airlines2,112 km1,312 mi

Cargo2

MEMFrederick W. Smith International AirportUnited States · FedEx Express1,224 km761 mi CVGCincinnati Northern Kentucky International AirportUnited States · DHL Aviation1,870 km1,162 mi

Most destinationsSouthwest Airlines 3American Eagle 2Sun Country Airlines 2United Express 1Delta Air Lines 1FedEx Express 1

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from HRL. Dashed: seasonal or charter. Blue: cargo. From the Wikipedia article “Valley International Airport” (revision of 27 Aug 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

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

Passengers1.2M (2025)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#758of 3,974 · #186 North America · #130 US Longest runway9,400 ft2,865 m46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=1,539of 29,823 · =326 North America · =241 US Elevation36 ft11 m-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=39,973of 43,341 · =18,107 North America · =14,916 US AgeOpened 19432026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=2,016of 15,079 · =1,078 North America · =1,034 US Runways31 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=151of 29,943 · =83 North America · =81 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/DAPP/DEP120.700

ATISATIS124.850

CTAFCTAF119.300

GNDGND121.700

RDOSAN ANGELO RDO122.350

TWRTWR119.300

UNICUNICOM122.950