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title: "AMS — Amsterdam Airport Schiphol Airport, Amsterdam · Orbit"
description: "Amsterdam Airport Schiphol (AMS/EHAM) serves Amsterdam, Netherlands. Opened 1916, 66.8 million passengers in 2024, 11 km from Amsterdam."
url: https://orbitflights.app/airports/ams
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Amsterdam · Netherlands · Europe

# AMS — Amsterdam Airport Schiphol

Amsterdam Airport Schiphol serves Amsterdam, Netherlands, 11 km from the city centre, and sits at 52.3°N, 4.8°E. This site carries 6 routes touching it, with the great circle distance for each.

**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 ↗](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amsterdam%5FAirport%5FSchiphol) · [Wikidata ↗](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9694)

## 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

**Map**
[Open in Google Maps ↗](https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=52.30860,4.76390)

**Website**
[schiphol.nl ↗](https://www.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.

RTM Rotterdam The Hague 45 km

## Distances from AMS

Great circle distance and an estimated time in the air. The longest is Singapore, at 10,514 km.

| To                                                      |     | Distance  | Estimated |
| ------------------------------------------------------- | --- | --------- | --------- |
| [London](https://orbitflights.app/routes/lhr-to-ams)    | LHR | 370 km    | 58m       |
| [Barcelona](https://orbitflights.app/routes/ams-to-bcn) | BCN | 1,241 km  | 2h 03m    |
| [Dubai](https://orbitflights.app/routes/ams-to-dxb)     | DXB | 5,169 km  | 6h 55m    |
| [New York](https://orbitflights.app/routes/ams-to-jfk)  | JFK | 5,848 km  | 7h 46m    |
| [Bangkok](https://orbitflights.app/routes/ams-to-bkk)   | BKK | 9,208 km  | 11h 57m   |
| [Singapore](https://orbitflights.app/routes/ams-to-sin) | SIN | 10,514 km | 13h 34m   |

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

## 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 AMS to anywhere →](https://orbitflights.app/distance) [Flights to Amsterdam →](https://orbitflights.app/flights-to/amsterdam)

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