--- title: "AKL — Auckland Airport, Auckland · Orbit" description: "Auckland International Airport (AKL/NZAA) serves Auckland, New Zealand. Opened 1928, 21.1 million passengers in 2019, 18 km from Auckland." url: https://orbitflights.app/airports/akl --- Auckland · New Zealand · Oceania # AKL — Auckland Auckland International Airport serves Auckland, New Zealand, 18 km from the city centre, and sits at 37.0°S, 174.8°E. This site carries 11 routes touching it, with the great circle distance for each. **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 ↗](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auckland%5FInternational%5FAirport) · [Wikidata ↗](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q45938) ## 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) **Map** [Open in Google Maps ↗](https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=-37.01200,174.78630) **Website** [auckland-airport.co.nz ↗](http://www.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](https://orbitflights.app/routes/akl-to-chc) | CHC | 745 km | 1h 26m | | [Queenstown](https://orbitflights.app/routes/akl-to-zqn) | ZQN | 1,024 km | 1h 46m | | [Nadi](https://orbitflights.app/routes/akl-to-nan) | NAN | 2,156 km | 3h 11m | | [Sydney](https://orbitflights.app/routes/syd-to-akl) | SYD | 2,159 km | 3h 11m | | [Brisbane](https://orbitflights.app/routes/bne-to-akl) | BNE | 2,295 km | 3h 21m | | [Melbourne](https://orbitflights.app/routes/mel-to-akl) | MEL | 2,637 km | 3h 47m | | [Papeete](https://orbitflights.app/routes/akl-to-ppt) | PPT | 4,094 km | 5h 35m | | [Los Angeles](https://orbitflights.app/routes/lax-to-akl) | LAX | 10,487 km | 13h 32m | | [Dubai](https://orbitflights.app/routes/dxb-to-akl) | DXB | 14,199 km | 18h 09m | | [New York](https://orbitflights.app/routes/akl-to-jfk) | JFK | 14,215 km | 18h 10m | | [Doha](https://orbitflights.app/routes/doh-to-akl) | DOH | 14,534 km | 18h 34m | [Distance from AKL to any airport →](https://orbitflights.app/distance?from=AKL&to=DOH) [Map a trip from AKL →](https://orbitflights.app/tools/flight-route-map?r=AKL-DOH) ## 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 AKL to anywhere →](https://orbitflights.app/distance) [Flights to Auckland →](https://orbitflights.app/flights-to/auckland) ## Flown through AKL? Orbit knows all 8,801 airports offline and works out the distance the moment you enter two codes. [Download now](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.qwertybit.orbit) --- Markdown copy of https://orbitflights.app/airports/akl for language models and agents. Site index: https://orbitflights.app/llms.txt