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title: "ADL — Adelaide Airport, Adelaide · Orbit"
description: "Adelaide International Airport (ADL/YPAD) serves Adelaide, Australia. Opened 1955, 8.4 million passengers in 2024, 6 km from Adelaide."
url: https://orbitflights.app/airports/adl
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Adelaide · Australia · Oceania

# ADL — Adelaide

Adelaide International Airport serves Adelaide, Australia, 6 km from the city centre, and sits at 34.9°S, 138.5°E. This site carries 1 route touching it, with the great circle distance for each.

**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 ↗](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adelaide%5FAirport) · [Wikidata ↗](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14302)

## 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)

**Map**
[Open in Google Maps ↗](https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=-34.94750,138.53340)

## 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](https://orbitflights.app/routes/syd-to-adl) | SYD | 1,164 km | 1h 57m    |

[Distance from ADL to any airport →](https://orbitflights.app/distance?from=ADL&to=SYD) [Map a trip from ADL →](https://orbitflights.app/tools/flight-route-map?r=ADL-SYD)

## Where these facts come from

The profile is looked up, not written from memory: type, runways, elevation and the official website from [OurAirports](https://ourairports.com/data/) (public domain); opening year, namesake, operator and passenger count from [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/) (CC0); the city centre from [GeoNames](https://www.geonames.org/) (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.

[Measure ADL to anywhere →](https://orbitflights.app/distance)

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