Map to Suvarnabhumi Airport
road to the Golden Land

Suvarnabhumi (pronounced su-wan-na-poom) means the Golden Land, the ancient name for old Siam and neighboring Burma, Cambodia and Laos. The name of the airport was bestowed by HM King Bhumipol Adulyadej.

Please use the interactive of map for the location of the airport from Bangkok city.


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Highway 7 is the Bangkok – Chonburi Highway to leads east and south-east to Chonburi and Pataya. To the west Highway 7 joins up with Phra Rama IX Road that goes to various parts of the city. The distance from the airport to Phra Rama IX subway station is about 25 km.

Lat Krabang Road leads westwards to Sukhumvit Soi 77 that leads to Sukhumvit Road near the On Nut skytrain station. The distance from the airport to On Nut skytrain station is about 15 km. It's about 35 km from the airport to the expressway entrance at Ploenchit.

The airport started operations at 0100 hours on 28 September 2006. Suvarnabhumi International Airport is far bigger than Don Muang airport. The main buildings are 563,000 sq m in area within a land area of 32 sq km. Please give yourself 30 – 40 minutes to walk from the check-in counters to your departure gates.

With effect from 18 April 2007, the public taxi stands will be operating from the arrival terminal at the 2nd level. So will buses picking up passengers.

For independent and budget travelers, there's a free shuttle service to the bus station 10 minutes away where they can take an air-conditioned bus to On Nut or Victory Monument where they can take the Bangkok skytrain..

The planned train service to the city at the Phaya Thai skytrain station isn't ready at the moment.

For transit passengers, the Novotel Suvarnabhumi Airport Hotel is linked to the terminal building by a walkway.

Hope you find the map to Suvarnabhumi Airport useful when you visit Bangkok.

A historical background to the name and development of the new airport is at Suvarnabhumi Airport.


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