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title: "BEY — Beirut Rafic Hariri Airport, Beirut · Orbit"
description: "Beirut Rafic Hariri International Airport (BEY/OLBA) serves Beirut, Lebanon. Opened 1954, named after Rafiq Hariri, 7 million passengers in 2025, 8 km from Beirut."
url: https://orbitflights.app/airports/bey
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Beirut · Lebanon · Asia

# BEY — Beirut Rafic Hariri

Beirut Rafic Hariri International Airport serves Beirut, Lebanon, 8 km from the city centre, and sits at 33.8°N, 35.5°E. This site carries 1 route touching it, with the great circle distance for each.

**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 after **Rafiq Hariri** — Prime Minister of Lebanon (1992–1998, 2000–2004)

Read more: [Wikipedia ↗](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beirut%5FRafic%5FHariri%5FInternational%5FAirport) · [Wikidata ↗](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q668329)

## 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)

**Map**
[Open in Google Maps ↗](https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=33.81980,35.48740)

**Website**
[beirutairport.gov.lb ↗](http://www.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](https://orbitflights.app/routes/lhr-to-bey) | LHR | 3,482 km | 4h 50m    |

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

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