- IATA
- AGP
- the code on your bag tag
- ICAO
- LEMG
- used by air traffic control
- Opened
- 1946
- per Wikidata
- Passengers
- 26.8M
- in 2025
History & name
Málaga-Costa del Sol Airport, operated by ENAIRE, opened in 1946 and takes its name from Málaga and the Costa del Sol. It lies 9 km from Málaga, has two runways up to 3,200 m, and handled 26.8 million passengers in 2025.
Read more: Wikipedia ↗ · Wikidata ↗
At a glance
- Full name
- Málaga-Costa del Sol Airport
- Serves
- Málaga, Spain
- City centre
- 9 km from Málaga
- Opened
- 1946
- Operator
- ENAIRE
- Passengers
- 26.8 million in 2025
- Runways
- 2 runways, longest 3,200 m
- Elevation
- 53 ft (16 m)
- Website
- aena.es ↗
Where it sits
36.7°N, 4.5°W puts AGP in the northern hemisphere, 4,078 km from the equator and 5,929 km from the North pole.
Of the 661 airports on this site it is the 224th most northerly, which makes it the 438th most southerly.
Straight through the middle
Straight down through the centre of the Earth comes out at 36.7°S, 175.5°E — 74 km from Auckland (AKL) in New Zealand, which is about as close to a true antipodal airport pair as this table gets.
What’s near it
The closest other airport on this site is Seville (SVQ), 149 km away in a straight line. Nothing else on this site is within 100 km.
Distances from AGP
Great circle distance and an estimated time in the air.
| To | Distance | Estimated | |
|---|---|---|---|
| London | LHR | 1,676 km | 2h 35m |
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.
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