- IATA
- BEY
- the code on your bag tag
- ICAO
- OLBA
- used by air traffic control
- Opened
- 1954
- per Wikidata
- Passengers
- 7M
- in 2025
History & name
Beirut Rafic Hariri International Airport opened in 1954 and is named after Rafiq Hariri, Prime Minister of Lebanon (1992–1998, 2000–2004). It sits 8 km from Beirut with three runways up to 3,800 m, and handled 7 million passengers in 2025.
Named afterRafiq Hariri — Prime Minister of Lebanon (1992–1998, 2000–2004)
Read more: Wikipedia ↗ · Wikidata ↗
At a glance
- Full name
- Beirut Rafic Hariri International Airport
- Serves
- Beirut, Lebanon
- City centre
- 8 km from Beirut
- Opened
- 1954
- Passengers
- 7 million in 2025
- Runways
- 3 runways, longest 3,800 m
- Elevation
- 87 ft (27 m)
- Website
- beirutairport.gov.lb ↗
Where it sits
33.8°N, 35.5°E puts BEY in the northern hemisphere, 3,761 km from the equator and 6,247 km from the North pole.
Of the 661 airports on this site it is the 265th most northerly, which makes it the 397th most southerly.
Straight through the middle
Straight down through the centre of the Earth comes out at 33.8°S, 144.5°W. The nearest airport on this site to that point is Fa'a'ā (PPT) in French Polynesia, still 1,879 km away — most of the planet's antipodes are ocean.
What’s near it
The closest other airport on this site is Ben Gurion (TLV), 209 km away in a straight line. Nothing else on this site is within 100 km.
Distances from BEY
Great circle distance and an estimated time in the air.
| To | Distance | Estimated | |
|---|---|---|---|
| London | LHR | 3,482 km | 4h 50m |
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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