ZIH

Ixtapa-Zihuatanejo International Airport

ICAO MMZH17.6018°N 101.4606°W8 m / 26 ftLarge airport
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Ixtapa-Zihuatanejo International Airport (IATA: ZIH, ICAO: MMZH) is a large airport in Ixtapa, Guerrero, Mexico. It has one runway, 2,506 m (8,222 ft) long, asphalt. It is operated by Grupo Aeroportuario Centro Norte. In 2023 it handled 654 thousand passengers.

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap
09/27092° / 272° · LIT
LENGTH2,506 m8,222 ftWIDTH60 m197 ftSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2012–2023
458K
460K
508K
562K
557K
591K
566K
625K
317K
434K
593K
654K
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Routes

17 destinations · 3 countries
1,000 km2,000 km3,000 km4,000 km1,000 mi2,000 miMEX · Mexico City Benito Juárez International Airport · 324 km / 201 miNLU · Felipe Ángeles International Airport · 351 km / 218 miQRO · Querétaro Intercontinental Airport · 361 km / 224 miGDL · Guadalajara International Airport · 379 km / 235 miIAH · George Bush Intercontinental Airport · 1,510 km / 938 miDFW · Dallas Fort Worth International Airport · 1,757 km / 1,092 miPHX · Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport · 2,051 km / 1,274 miTIJ · General Abelardo L. Rodriguez International Airport · 2,275 km / 1,414 miLAX · Los Angeles International Airport · 2,479 km / 1,540 miMTY · Monterrey International Airport · 920 km / 572 miORD · Chicago O'Hare International Airport · 3,001 km / 1,865 miSFO · San Francisco International Airport · 3,019 km / 1,876 miMSP · Minneapolis–Saint Paul International Airport / Wold–Chamberlain Field · 3,129 km / 1,944 miYYZ · Toronto Pearson International Airport · 3,549 km / 2,205 miYYC · Calgary International Airport · 3,889 km / 2,417 miYVR · Vancouver International Airport · 4,019 km / 2,497 miYUL · Montreal / Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport · 4,021 km / 2,499 miYULYVRYYCYYZMSPSFOORDLAXPHXDFWIAHMTYGDLQROTIJMEXNLUZIH
Most destinationsVolaris 4Air Canada 3Viva 2American Eagle 2Alaska Airlines 2WestJet 2

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from ZIH. Dashed: seasonal or charter. From the Wikipedia article “Ixtapa-Zihuatanejo International Airport” (revision of 30 Aug 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country
Passengers654K (2023)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#995of 3,974 · #242 North America · #33 MXLongest runway2,506 m8,222 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=2,278of 29,823 · =502 North America · #35 MXElevation8 m26 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=40,726of 43,341 · =18,419 North America · =1,384 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

2 channels
APPZIHUATANEJO APP121.000
TWRZIHUATANEJO TWR118.300