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title: "ARN — Stockholm-Arlanda Airport, Stockholm · Orbit"
description: "Stockholm-Arlanda Airport (ARN/ESSA) serves Stockholm, Sweden. Opened 1959, 18.4 million passengers in 2022, 36 km from Stockholm."
url: https://orbitflights.app/airports/arn
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Stockholm · Sweden · Europe

# ARN — Stockholm-Arlanda

Stockholm-Arlanda Airport serves Stockholm, Sweden, 36 km from the city centre, and sits at 59.6°N, 17.9°E. This site carries 2 routes touching it, with the great circle distance for each.

**IATA**
ARN
the code on your bag tag

**ICAO**
ESSA
used by air traffic control

**Opened**
1959
per Wikidata

**Passengers**
18.4M
in 2022

## History & name

Stockholm-Arlanda Airport, run by Swedavia, opened in 1959 and lies 36 km from Stockholm. It has three runways, the longest 3,301 m, sits at an elevation of 137 feet, and handled 18.4 million passengers in 2022.

Read more: [Wikipedia ↗](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm-Arlanda%5FAirport) · [Wikidata ↗](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q223499)

## At a glance

**Full name**
Stockholm-Arlanda Airport

**Serves**
Stockholm, Sweden

**City centre**
36 km from Stockholm

**Opened**
1959

**Operator**
Swedavia

**Passengers**
18.4 million in 2022

**Runways**
3 runways, longest 3,301 m

**Elevation**
137 ft (42 m)

**Map**
[Open in Google Maps ↗](https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=59.64850,17.92880)

**Website**
[swedavia.se ↗](http://www.swedavia.se/arlanda/)

## Where it sits

59.6°N, 17.9°E puts ARN in the northern hemisphere, 6,633 km from the equator and 3,375 km from the North pole.

Of the 661 airports on this site it is the **16th** most northerly, which makes it the 646th most southerly.

## Straight through the middle

Straight down through the centre of the Earth comes out at 59.6°S, 162.1°W. The nearest airport on this site to that point is Dunedin (DUD) in New Zealand, still 2,379 km away — most of the planet's antipodes are ocean.

## What’s near it

The closest other airport on this site is **Stockholm Skavsta** (NYO), 112 km away in a straight line. Nothing else on this site is within 100 km.

## Distances from ARN

Great circle distance and an estimated time in the air. The longest is London, at 1,463 km.

| To                                                     |     | Distance | Estimated |
| ------------------------------------------------------ | --- | -------- | --------- |
| [Helsinki](https://orbitflights.app/routes/arn-to-hel) | HEL | 398 km   | 1h 00m    |
| [London](https://orbitflights.app/routes/lhr-to-arn)   | LHR | 1,463 km | 2h 19m    |

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

## 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 ARN to anywhere →](https://orbitflights.app/distance)

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