KWL
Guilin Liangjiang International Airport
Guilin Liangjiang International Airport (IATA: KWL, ICAO: ZGKL) is a large airport in Guilin (Lingui), Guangxi Autonomous Region, China. It opened in 1996. It has one runway, 3,200 m (10,499 ft) long, concrete. In 2022 it handled 1.7 million passengers.
Timeline
1 event · 1996–19961996
OpenedGuilin Liangjiang International Airport opens.
From WikidataEvery airfield, 1903–2026
Runways & airfield
Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap01/19005° / 185° · LIT
LENGTH3,200 m10,499 ftWIDTH45 m147 ftSURFACEConcrete
Passengers per year
2011–20225.5M
5.7M
5.9M
6.9M
6.4M
6.6M
7.9M
8.7M
8.6M
4.4M
4.5M
1.7M
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Routes
47 destinations · 4 countriesYear-round47
HKGHong Kong International AirportHong Kong SAR China · Greater Bay Airlines510 km317 miHAKHaikou Meilan International AirportChina · Shandong Airlines, Air Guilin, Beijing Capital Airlines589 km366 miCKGChongqing Jiangbei International AirportChina · Air Guilin601 km373 miYIHYichang Sanxia AirportChina · Tianjin Airlines610 km379 miSHSJingzhou Shashi AirportChina · Air Guilin612 km380 miSWAJieyang Chaoshan International AirportChina · China Eastern Airlines680 km423 miSYXSanya Phoenix International AirportChina · Air Guilin, Sichuan Airlines, Beijing Capital Airlines772 km480 miTFUChengdu Tianfu International AirportChina · Air Guilin, Air China790 km491 miXMNXiamen Gaoqi International AirportChina · Shandong Airlines, Xiamen Airlines, Air Guilin819 km509 miJJNQuanzhou Jinjiang International AirportChina · 9 Air863 km536 miFOCFuzhou Changle International AirportChina · Shandong Airlines, Xiamen Airlines969 km602 miLJGLijiang Sanyi International AirportChina · Xiamen Airlines992 km616 miJHGXishuangbanna Gasa International AirportChina · 9 Air, Air Guilin1,012 km629 miHFEHefei Xinqiao International AirportChina · Shandong Airlines, China Eastern Airlines1,012 km629 miXIYXi'an Xianyang International AirportChina · Air Changan, Air Guilin, Hainan Airlines +11,033 km642 miWHAWuhu Xuanzhou AirportChina · Air Guilin1,069 km664 miCGOZhengzhou Xinzheng International AirportChina · Shandong Airlines, Air Guilin1,098 km682 miWNZWenzhou Longwan International AirportChina · China Eastern Airlines1,116 km693 miNKGNanjing Lukou International AirportChina · Shandong Airlines, Juneyao Air, China Eastern Airlines1,126 km700 miHGHHangzhou Xiaoshan International AirportChina · Xiamen Airlines, Beijing Capital Airlines1,164 km723 miCZXChangzhou Benniu International AirportChina · Air Guilin1,207 km750 miXUZXuzhou Guanyin International AirportChina · Air Guilin1,221 km759 miNGBNingbo Lishe International AirportChina · Spring Airlines1,237 km769 miHIAHuai'an Lianshui AirportChina · Shanghai Airlines1,296 km805 miJNGJining Da'an AirportChina · Air Guilin1,325 km823 miPVGShanghai Pudong International AirportChina · Juneyao Air, China Eastern Airlines, Air China +11,327 km825 miYNZYancheng Nanyang International AirportChina · Air Guilin1,342 km834 miLYILinyi Qiyang AirportChina · Beijing Capital Airlines1,357 km843 miLHWLanzhou Zhongchuan International AirportChina · China Eastern Airlines, Beijing Capital Airlines1,397 km868 miTYNTaiyuan Wusu International AirportChina · Air Guilin, China Eastern Airlines1,414 km879 miTNAJinan Yaoqiang International AirportChina · Shandong Airlines, Air Guilin1,462 km908 miINCYinchuan Hedong International AirportChina · Sichuan Airlines1,497 km930 miWUTXinzhou Wutaishan AirportChina · Air Guilin1,513 km940 miSJWShijiazhuang Zhengding International AirportChina · Spring Airlines, Air Guilin1,517 km943 miTAOQingdao Jiaodong International AirportChina · Shandong Airlines, Air Guilin1,565 km972 miTSNTianjin Binhai International AirportChina · Tianjin Airlines, Air China1,691 km1,051 miPKXBeijing Daxing International AirportChina · Hebei Airlines, Air China1,696 km1,054 miYNTYantai Penglai International AirportChina · Shandong Airlines1,726 km1,072 miPEKBeijing Capital International AirportChina · Air China1,761 km1,094 miTVSTangshan Sannühe AirportChina · Air Guilin1,775 km1,103 miDLCDalian Zhoushuizi International AirportChina · Air Guilin1,870 km1,162 miICNIncheon International AirportSouth Korea · Jin Air2,064 km1,283 miSHEShenyang Taoxian International AirportChina · Air Guilin, China Eastern Airlines2,205 km1,370 miCGQChangchun Longjia International AirportChina · Shanghai Airlines2,522 km1,567 miKULKuala Lumpur International AirportMalaysia · AirAsia2,653 km1,648 miHRBHarbin Taiping International AirportChina · Air Guilin2,691 km1,672 miKRLKorla Licheng AirportChina · Air Guilin2,854 km1,773 miMost destinationsAir Guilin 24Shandong Airlines 9China Eastern Airlines 8Beijing Capital Airlines 6Air China 5Xiamen Airlines 4
Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from KWL. Dashed: seasonal or charter. From the Wikipedia article “Guilin Liangjiang International Airport” (revision of 12 Jul 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.
Records & rankings
Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · countryScale: 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 channelsATISATIS126.450
GNDGND121.650
TWRTWR118.000