- IATA
- DEL
- the code on your bag tag
- ICAO
- VIDP
- used by air traffic control
- Passengers
- 77.8M
- in 2024
- Routes here
- 8
- in the catalogue
History & name
Indira Gandhi International Airport is named after Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India (1966-1977; 1980-1984), and also takes its name from Palam. It sits 17 km from Delhi, has 4 runways with the longest at 4,430 m, and handled 77.8 million passengers in 2024.
Named afterIndira Gandhi — Prime Minister of India (1966-1977; 1980-1984)
Read more: Wikipedia ↗ · Wikidata ↗
At a glance
- Full name
- Indira Gandhi International Airport
- Serves
- Delhi, India
- City centre
- 17 km from Delhi
- Passengers
- 77.8 million in 2024
- Runways
- 4 runways, longest 4,430 m
- Elevation
- 777 ft (237 m)
- Website
- newdelhiairport.in ↗
Where it sits
28.6°N, 77.1°E puts DEL in the northern hemisphere, 3,175 km from the equator and 6,832 km from the North pole.
Of the 661 airports on this site it is the 317th most northerly, which makes it the 345th most southerly.
Straight through the middle
Straight down through the centre of the Earth comes out at 28.6°S, 102.9°W. The nearest airport on this site to that point is Mataveri (IPC) in Chile, still 659 km away — most of the planet's antipodes are ocean.
What’s near it
The closest other airport on this site is Jaipur (JAI), 230 km away in a straight line. Nothing else on this site is within 100 km.
Distances from DEL
Great circle distance and an estimated time in the air. The longest is San Francisco, at 12,382 km.
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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