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title: "AUH — Zayed Airport, Abu Dhabi · Orbit"
description: "Zayed International Airport (AUH/OMAA) serves Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Opened 1982, 22.9 million passengers in 2023, 26 km from Abu Dhabi."
url: https://orbitflights.app/airports/auh
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Abu Dhabi · United Arab Emirates · Asia

# AUH — Zayed

Zayed International Airport serves Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, 26 km from the city centre, and sits at 24.4°N, 54.6°E. This site carries 1 route touching it, with the great circle distance for each.

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

**ICAO**
OMAA
used by air traffic control

**Opened**
1982
per Wikidata

**Passengers**
22.9M
in 2023

## History & name

Zayed International Airport opened in 1982 and is operated by Abu Dhabi Airports. It lies 26 km from Abu Dhabi, has two runways up to 4,106 m at an elevation of 88 feet, and handled 22.9 million passengers in 2023.

Read more: [Wikipedia ↗](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu%5FDhabi%5FInternational%5FAirport) · [Wikidata ↗](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q643562)

## At a glance

**Full name**
Zayed International Airport

**Serves**
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

**City centre**
26 km from Abu Dhabi

**Opened**
1982

**Operator**
Abu Dhabi Airports

**Passengers**
22.9 million in 2023

**Runways**
2 runways, longest 4,106 m

**Elevation**
88 ft (27 m)

**Map**
[Open in Google Maps ↗](https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=24.44100,54.64920)

**Website**
[zayedinternationalairport.ae ↗](https://www.zayedinternationalairport.ae/)

## Where it sits

24.4°N, 54.6°E puts AUH in the northern hemisphere, 2,718 km from the equator and 7,290 km from the North pole.

Of the 661 airports on this site it is the **358th** most northerly, which makes it the 304th most southerly.

## Straight through the middle

Straight down through the centre of the Earth comes out at 24.4°S, 125.4°W. The nearest airport on this site to that point is Mataveri (IPC) in Chile, still 1,622 km away — most of the planet's antipodes are ocean.

## What’s near it

The closest other airport on this site is **Al Maktoum** (DWC), 72 km away in a straight line. It is the only one within 100 km.

DWC Al Maktoum 72 km

## Distances from AUH

Great circle distance and an estimated time in the air.

| To                                                   |     | Distance | Estimated |
| ---------------------------------------------------- | --- | -------- | --------- |
| [London](https://orbitflights.app/routes/lhr-to-auh) | LHR | 5,516 km | 7h 21m    |

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

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