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title: "DEL — Indira Gandhi Airport, Delhi · Orbit"
description: "Indira Gandhi International Airport (DEL/VIDP) serves Delhi, India. Named after Indira Gandhi, 77.8 million passengers in 2024, 17 km from Delhi."
url: https://orbitflights.app/airports/del
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Delhi · India · Asia

# DEL — Indira Gandhi

Indira Gandhi International Airport serves Delhi, India, 17 km from the city centre, and sits at 28.6°N, 77.1°E. This site carries 8 routes touching it, with the great circle distance for each.

**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 after **Indira Gandhi** — Prime Minister of India (1966-1977; 1980-1984)

Read more: [Wikipedia ↗](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indira%5FGandhi%5FInternational%5FAirport) · [Wikidata ↗](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q821275)

## 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)

**Map**
[Open in Google Maps ↗](https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=28.55560,77.09520)

**Website**
[newdelhiairport.in ↗](https://www.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.

| To                                                          |     | Distance  | Estimated |
| ----------------------------------------------------------- | --- | --------- | --------- |
| [Kathmandu](https://orbitflights.app/routes/del-to-ktm)     | KTM | 816 km    | 1h 31m    |
| [Mumbai](https://orbitflights.app/routes/del-to-bom)        | BOM | 1,137 km  | 1h 55m    |
| [Kolkata](https://orbitflights.app/routes/del-to-ccu)       | CCU | 1,313 km  | 2h 08m    |
| [Bangalore](https://orbitflights.app/routes/del-to-blr)     | BLR | 1,709 km  | 2h 37m    |
| [Dubai](https://orbitflights.app/routes/del-to-dxb)         | DXB | 2,182 km  | 3h 13m    |
| [Frankfurt](https://orbitflights.app/routes/fra-to-del)     | FRA | 6,122 km  | 8h 06m    |
| [London](https://orbitflights.app/routes/lhr-to-del)        | LHR | 6,731 km  | 8h 52m    |
| [San Francisco](https://orbitflights.app/routes/del-to-sfo) | SFO | 12,382 km | 15h 53m   |

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

## 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 DEL to anywhere →](https://orbitflights.app/distance) [Flights to Delhi →](https://orbitflights.app/flights-to/delhi)

## Flown through DEL?

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