- IATA
- AMS
- the code on your bag tag
- ICAO
- EHAM
- used by air traffic control
- Opened
- 1916
- per Wikidata
- Passengers
- 66.8M
- in 2024
History & name
Amsterdam Airport Schiphol opened in 1916 and takes its name from Amsterdam and Fort aan het Schiphol. It sits 11 km from Amsterdam, 11 feet below sea level, with six runways up to 3,800 m, and handled 66.8 million passengers in 2024.
Read more: Wikipedia ↗ · Wikidata ↗
At a glance
- Full name
- Amsterdam Airport Schiphol
- Serves
- Amsterdam, Netherlands
- City centre
- 11 km from Amsterdam
- Opened
- 1916
- Passengers
- 66.8 million in 2024
- Runways
- 6 runways, longest 3,800 m
- Elevation
- 11 ft (3 m) below sea level
- Website
- schiphol.nl ↗
Where it sits
52.3°N, 4.8°E puts AMS in the northern hemisphere, 5,816 km from the equator and 4,191 km from the North pole.
Of the 661 airports on this site it is the 45th most northerly, which makes it the 617th most southerly.
Straight through the middle
Straight down through the centre of the Earth comes out at 52.3°S, 175.2°W. The nearest airport on this site to that point is Dunedin (DUD) in New Zealand, still 1,272 km away — most of the planet's antipodes are ocean.
What’s near it
The closest other airport on this site is Rotterdam The Hague (RTM), 45 km away in a straight line. It is the only one within 100 km.
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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