# Golmud Airport (GOQ / ZLGM)

**Golmud Airport** (IATA: GOQ, ICAO: ZLGM) is a medium airport in Golmud, Qinghai Province, China. It has one runway, 4,800 m (15,748 ft) long, concrete. In 2022 it handled 124 thousand passengers.

Web page: https://dromopedia.com/airports/zlgm

## At a glance

- IATA / ICAO: GOQ / ZLGM
- Type: Medium airport
- Serves: Golmud, Qinghai Province, China
- Elevation: 2,845 m / 9,334 ft
- Coordinates: 36.4006, 94.7861
- Runways: 1
- Longest runway: 4,800 m / 15,748 ft
- Passengers: 123,812 (2022)
- Time zone: UTC+8 · Asia/Shanghai
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golmud_Airport (13 languages)
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3272073
- Ident: ZLGM

## Runways

| Ident | Length | Width | Surface | True headings | Lighted |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 09/27 | 4,800 m / 15,748 ft | 49 m / 160 ft | Concrete |  |  |

## Passengers per year

| Year | Passengers | Source |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 2011 | 70,502 | Wikidata |
| 2012 | 90,070 | Wikidata |
| 2013 | 101,321 | Wikidata |
| 2014 | 125,204 | Wikidata |
| 2015 | 119,038 | Wikidata |
| 2016 | 149,056 | Wikidata |
| 2017 | 172,266 | Wikidata |
| 2018 | 183,683 | Wikidata |
| 2019 | 227,098 | Wikidata |
| 2020 | 258,067 | Wikidata |
| 2021 | 313,215 | Wikidata |
| 2022 | 123,812 | Wikidata |

## Routes

5 destinations in 1 country. From the airport's Wikipedia article.

### Year-round (5)

- [XNN](https://dromopedia.com/airports/zlxn.md) Xining Caojiabao International Airport · China · 649 km / 403 mi · Tibet Airlines, China Eastern Airlines
- [LXA](https://dromopedia.com/airports/zuls.md) Lhasa Gonggar International Airport · China · 869 km / 540 mi · West Air
- [CTU](https://dromopedia.com/airports/zuuu.md) Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport · China · 1,069 km / 664 mi · Tibet Airlines
- [XIY](https://dromopedia.com/airports/zlxy.md) Xi'an Xianyang International Airport · China · 1,284 km / 798 mi · China Eastern Airlines
- [CGO](https://dromopedia.com/airports/zhcc.md) Zhengzhou Xinzheng International Airport · China · 1,736 km / 1,079 mi · West Air

## Airlines

The figure is how many destinations each airline flies from GOQ, as the routes above have them. Hubs from Wikidata.

### Passenger (3)

- MU [China Eastern Airlines](https://dromopedia.com/airlines/china-eastern-airlines) · 2
- TV [Tibet Airlines](https://dromopedia.com/airlines/tibet-airlines) · 2
- PN [West Air](https://dromopedia.com/airlines/west-air) · 2

## Rankings

Ranked among 48,075 open airports; = marks a shared place.

| Measure | Value | World | Region | Country |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Passengers | 124K (2022) | #1,737 of 3,974 | #567 in Asia | #187 in CN |
| Longest runway | 4,800 m / 15,748 ft | =8 of 29,858 | #3 in Asia | #2 in CN |
| Elevation | 2,845 m / 9,334 ft | #118 of 43,403 | #38 in Asia | #24 in CN |
| Runways | 1 | =4,364 of 29,978 | =185 in Asia | =31 in CN |

## Nearby airports

No open airport within 150 km / 93 mi.

## In collections

- [Highest airports](https://dromopedia.com/collections/highest) #32
- [Longest runways](https://dromopedia.com/collections/longest-runways) #9

## Sources

- [OurAirports](https://ourairports.com/data/): Airport data from OurAirports (Public Domain)
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org): Structured data from Wikidata (CC0 1.0)
- [Wikipedia: “Golmud Airport”](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Golmud_Airport&oldid=1375745941), revision of 19 Sep 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- [timezone-boundary-builder](https://github.com/evansiroky/timezone-boundary-builder): Time zone boundaries © OpenStreetMap contributors, timezone-boundary-builder (ODbL 1.0)
- Every figure with its source: https://dromopedia.com/airports/zlgm/data