- IATA
- ATH
- the code on your bag tag
- ICAO
- LGAV
- used by air traffic control
- Opened
- 2001
- per Wikidata
- Passengers
- 22.4M
- in 2022
History & name
Athens Eleftherios Venizelos International Airport opened in 2001 and is named after Eleftherios Venizelos (1864–1936), the Greek politician and former Prime Minister of Greece. It lies 20 km from Athens, has two runways of up to 4,000 m, and handled 22.4 million passengers in 2022.
Named afterEleftherios Venizelos — Greek politician, former Prime Minister of Greece (1864–1936)
Read more: Wikipedia ↗ · Wikidata ↗
At a glance
- Full name
- Athens Eleftherios Venizelos International Airport
- Serves
- Athens, Greece
- City centre
- 20 km from Athens
- Opened
- 2001
- Passengers
- 22.4 million in 2022
- Runways
- 2 runways, longest 4,000 m
- Elevation
- 308 ft (94 m)
- Website
- aia.gr ↗
Where it sits
37.9°N, 23.9°E puts ATH in the northern hemisphere, 4,218 km from the equator and 5,789 km from the North pole.
Of the 661 airports on this site it is the 204th most northerly, which makes it the 458th most southerly.
Straight through the middle
Straight down through the centre of the Earth comes out at 37.9°S, 156.1°W. The nearest airport on this site to that point is Rarotonga (RAR) in Cook Islands, still 1,895 km away — most of the planet's antipodes are ocean.
What’s near it
The closest other airport on this site is Mykonos Island National (JMK), 136 km away in a straight line. Nothing else on this site is within 100 km.
Distances from ATH
Great circle distance and an estimated time in the air. The longest is London, at 2,427 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.
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