- IATA
- ATL
- the code on your bag tag
- ICAO
- KATL
- used by air traffic control
- Opened
- 1926
- per Wikidata
- Passengers
- 106.3M
- in 2025
History & name
Opened in 1926, Hartsfield Jackson Atlanta International Airport honours two American politicians, William B. Hartsfield (1890–1971) and Maynard Jackson (1938–2003). It sits 13 km from Atlanta at 1,026 feet with five runways up to 3,776 m, and handled 106.3 million passengers in 2025.
Named afterAsa Griggs Candler — American mayor and businessman (1851-1929)
Read more: Wikipedia ↗ · Wikidata ↗
At a glance
- Full name
- Hartsfield Jackson Atlanta International Airport
- Serves
- Atlanta, United States
- City centre
- 13 km from Atlanta
- Opened
- 1926
- Passengers
- 106.3 million in 2025
- Runways
- 5 runways, longest 3,776 m
- Elevation
- 1,026 ft (313 m)
- Website
- atl.com ↗
Where it sits
33.6°N, 84.4°W puts ATL in the northern hemisphere, 3,740 km from the equator and 6,267 km from the North pole.
Of the 661 airports on this site it is the 268th most northerly, which makes it the 394th most southerly.
Straight through the middle
Straight down through the centre of the Earth comes out at 33.6°S, 95.6°E. The nearest airport on this site to that point is Perth (PER) in Australia, still 1,913 km away — most of the planet's antipodes are ocean.
What’s near it
The closest other airport on this site is Birmingham-Shuttlesworth (BHM), 215 km away in a straight line. Nothing else on this site is within 100 km.
Distances from ATL
Great circle distance and an estimated time in the air. The longest is Johannesburg, at 13,583 km.
| To | Distance | Estimated | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Miami | MIA | 959 km | 1h 41m |
| London | LHR | 6,761 km | 8h 54m |
| Johannesburg | JNB | 13,583 km | 17h 23m |
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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