- IATA
- ADL
- the code on your bag tag
- ICAO
- YPAD
- used by air traffic control
- Opened
- 1955
- per Wikidata
- Passengers
- 8.4M
- in 2024
History & name
Adelaide International Airport opened in 1955 and takes its name from the city it serves, 6 km away. Its two runways reach 3,100 m at an elevation of just 20 feet, and 8.4 million passengers used it in 2024.
Read more: Wikipedia ↗ · Wikidata ↗
At a glance
- Full name
- Adelaide International Airport
- Serves
- Adelaide, Australia
- City centre
- 6 km from Adelaide
- Opened
- 1955
- Passengers
- 8.4 million in 2024
- Runways
- 2 runways, longest 3,100 m
- Elevation
- 20 ft (6 m)
Where it sits
34.9°S, 138.5°E puts ADL in the southern hemisphere, 3,886 km from the equator and 6,122 km from the South pole.
Of the 661 airports on this site it is the 640th most northerly, which makes it the 22nd most southerly.
Straight through the middle
Straight down through the centre of the Earth comes out at 34.9°N, 41.5°W. The nearest airport on this site to that point is João Paulo II (PDL) in Portugal, still 1,444 km away — most of the planet's antipodes are ocean.
What’s near it
The closest other airport on this site is Melbourne Avalon (AVV), 632 km away in a straight line. Nothing else on this site is within 100 km.
Distances from ADL
Great circle distance and an estimated time in the air.
| To | Distance | Estimated | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sydney | SYD | 1,164 km | 1h 57m |
Where these facts come from
The profile is looked up, not written from memory: type, runways, elevation and the official website from OurAirports (public domain); opening year, namesake, operator and passenger count from Wikidata (CC0); the city centre from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Where a source has nothing, the line is left out. Distances, neighbours and the antipode are computed from the coordinates.
What you won’t find: terminal maps, airline lists, shops or live departures. Orbit is a logbook, not a flight tracker, and a page that guessed at those would be worse than one that leaves them out.
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