--- title: "BOS — Boston Logan Airport, Boston · Orbit" description: "Boston Logan International Airport (BOS/KBOS) serves Boston, United States. Opened 1923, named after Edward Lawrence Logan, 43.2 million passengers in 2025." url: https://orbitflights.app/airports/bos --- Boston · United States · North America # BOS — Boston Logan Boston Logan International Airport serves Boston, United States, 4 km from the city centre, and sits at 42.4°N, 71.0°W. This site carries 3 routes touching it, with the great circle distance for each. **IATA** BOS the code on your bag tag **ICAO** KBOS used by air traffic control **Opened** 1923 per Wikidata **Passengers** 43.2M in 2025 ## History & name Boston Logan International Airport opened in 1923 and is named after Edward Lawrence Logan (1875-1939), a United States general. It sits 4 km from Boston at 20 feet with six runways up to 3,073 m, and handled 43.2 million passengers in 2025. Named after **Edward Lawrence Logan** — United States general (1875-1939) Read more: [Wikipedia ↗](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logan%5FInternational%5FAirport) · [Wikidata ↗](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q671475) ## At a glance **Full name** Boston Logan International Airport **Serves** Boston, United States **City centre** 4 km from Boston **Opened** 1923 **Passengers** 43.2 million in 2025 **Runways** 6 runways, longest 3,073 m **Elevation** 20 ft (6 m) **Map** [Open in Google Maps ↗](https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=42.36200,-71.00790) **Website** [massport.com ↗](http://www.massport.com/logan/) ## Where it sits 42.4°N, 71.0°W puts BOS in the northern hemisphere, 4,710 km from the equator and 5,297 km from the North pole. Of the 661 airports on this site it is the **142nd** most northerly, which makes it the 520th most southerly. ## Straight through the middle Straight down through the centre of the Earth comes out at 42.4°S, 109.0°E. The nearest airport on this site to that point is Perth (PER) in Australia, still 1,312 km away — most of the planet's antipodes are ocean. ## What’s near it The closest other airport on this site is **Rhode Island T. F. Green** (PVD), 79 km away in a straight line. It is the only one within 100 km. PVD Rhode Island T. F. Green 79 km ## Distances from BOS Great circle distance and an estimated time in the air. The longest is London, at 5,240 km. | To | | Distance | Estimated | | ------------------------------------------------------- | --- | -------- | --------- | | [Reykjavík](https://orbitflights.app/routes/kef-to-bos) | KEF | 3,875 km | 5h 19m | | [Dublin](https://orbitflights.app/routes/dub-to-bos) | DUB | 4,804 km | 6h 28m | | [London](https://orbitflights.app/routes/lhr-to-bos) | LHR | 5,240 km | 7h 01m | [Distance from BOS to any airport →](https://orbitflights.app/distance?from=BOS&to=LHR) [Map a trip from BOS →](https://orbitflights.app/tools/flight-route-map?r=BOS-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 BOS to anywhere →](https://orbitflights.app/distance) ## Flown through BOS? Orbit knows all 8,801 airports offline and works out the distance the moment you enter two codes. [Download now](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.qwertybit.orbit) --- Markdown copy of https://orbitflights.app/airports/bos for language models and agents. Site index: https://orbitflights.app/llms.txt