Shenzhen SZX
Cheap flights from Shenzhen use SZX, the city's only commercial airport, so every ticket pairs this single departure point with whichever airport your route uses at the other end; popular routes run to Brussels, Amsterdam, London, Vienna, Budapest, Athens, Lisbon and Bari, and with no second Shenzhen airport to compare, the practical question is less which terminal you use than how you spend the first hours after landing, so check your arrival time against your hotel, meeting or onward train before you book.
Shenzhen at a glance
- Passengers per year
- 66.5 M (2025)
- Hub for
- Donghai Airlines, Shenzhen Airlines
- Elevation
- 13 m
- Opened
- 1991
- Official website
- szairport.com
- Population of Shenzhen
- 17.5 M (2020)
Country facts: Wikidata
Getting to the city
The cheapest way into Shenzhen is usually public transport from the airport, while taxis and ride-hailing cost more and can stall in peak traffic; leave buffer time for passport control, baggage claim and late arrivals, and avoid locking in fixed onward plans for the hour after you land.