- IATA
- AKL
- the code on your bag tag
- ICAO
- NZAA
- used by air traffic control
- Opened
- 1928
- per Wikidata
- Passengers
- 21.1M
- in 2019
History & name
Auckland International Airport dates from 1928 and sits 18 km from Auckland, New Zealand. A single runway of 3,635 m serves it at an elevation of 23 feet, and it handled 21.1 million passengers in 2019.
Read more: Wikipedia ↗ · Wikidata ↗
At a glance
- Full name
- Auckland International Airport
- Serves
- Auckland, New Zealand
- City centre
- 18 km from Auckland
- Opened
- 1928
- Passengers
- 21.1 million in 2019
- Runways
- 1 runway, 3,635 m
- Elevation
- 23 ft (7 m)
- Website
- auckland-airport.co.nz ↗
Where it sits
37.0°S, 174.8°E puts AKL in the southern hemisphere, 4,116 km from the equator and 5,892 km from the South pole.
Of the 661 airports on this site it is the 642nd most northerly, which makes it the 20th most southerly.
Straight through the middle
Straight down through the centre of the Earth comes out at 37.0°N, 5.2°W — 74 km from Málaga-Costa del Sol (AGP) in Spain, 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 Rotorua (ROT), 182 km away in a straight line. Nothing else on this site is within 100 km.
Distances from AKL
Great circle distance and an estimated time in the air. The longest is Doha, at 14,534 km.
| To | Distance | Estimated | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Christchurch | CHC | 745 km | 1h 26m |
| Queenstown | ZQN | 1,024 km | 1h 46m |
| Nadi | NAN | 2,156 km | 3h 11m |
| Sydney | SYD | 2,159 km | 3h 11m |
| Brisbane | BNE | 2,295 km | 3h 21m |
| Melbourne | MEL | 2,637 km | 3h 47m |
| Papeete | PPT | 4,094 km | 5h 35m |
| Los Angeles | LAX | 10,487 km | 13h 32m |
| Dubai | DXB | 14,199 km | 18h 09m |
| New York | JFK | 14,215 km | 18h 10m |
| Doha | DOH | 14,534 km | 18h 34m |
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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