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title: "ATL — Hartsfield Jackson Atlanta Airport, Atlanta · Orbit"
description: "Hartsfield Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL/KATL) serves Atlanta, United States. Opened 1926, named after Asa Griggs Candler, 106.3 million passengers in 2025."
url: https://orbitflights.app/airports/atl
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Atlanta · United States · North America

# ATL — Hartsfield Jackson Atlanta

Hartsfield Jackson Atlanta International Airport serves Atlanta, United States, 13 km from the city centre, and sits at 33.6°N, 84.4°W. This site carries 3 routes touching it, with the great circle distance for each.

**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 after **Asa Griggs Candler** — American mayor and businessman (1851-1929)

Read more: [Wikipedia ↗](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hartsfield%E2%80%93Jackson%5FAtlanta%5FInternational%5FAirport) · [Wikidata ↗](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q214861)

## 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)

**Map**
[Open in Google Maps ↗](https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=33.63670,-84.42810)

**Website**
[atl.com ↗](https://www.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](https://orbitflights.app/routes/atl-to-mia)        | MIA | 959 km    | 1h 41m    |
| [London](https://orbitflights.app/routes/lhr-to-atl)       | LHR | 6,761 km  | 8h 54m    |
| [Johannesburg](https://orbitflights.app/routes/jnb-to-atl) | JNB | 13,583 km | 17h 23m   |

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

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

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