CUL

Bachigualato Federal International Airport

ICAO MMCL24.7650°N 107.4752°W33 m / 108 ftLarge airport
On the map
Aeropuerto Culiacan
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Bachigualato Federal International Airport (IATA: CUL, ICAO: MMCL) is a large airport in Culiacán, Sinaloa, Mexico. It has one runway, 2,245 m (7,365 ft) long, asphalt. It is operated by Grupo Aeroportuario Centro Norte. In 2023 it handled 2.6 million passengers.

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap
03/21033° / 213° · LIT
LENGTH2,245 m7,365 ftWIDTH45 m148 ftSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2012–2023
1.2M
1.3M
1.3M
1.4M
1.7M
1.9M
2.3M
2.5M
1.4M
2.0M
2.4M
2.6M
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Routes

2 destinations · 1 country

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from CUL. Blue: cargo. From the Wikipedia article “Culiacán International Airport” (revision of 26 Aug 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country
Passengers2.6M (2023)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#504of 3,974 · #120 North America · #11 MXLongest runway2,245 m7,365 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft#3,200of 29,823 · #705 North America · #56 MXElevation33 m108 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=36,516of 43,341 · =16,582 North America · =1,087 MXRunways11 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=4,360of 29,943 · =2,582 North America · =21 MX
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

3 channels
APPAPP119.750
ATISATIS127.800
TWRTWR118.500