- IATA
- DUB
- the code on your bag tag
- ICAO
- EIDW
- used by air traffic control
- Opened
- 1940
- per Wikidata
- Routes here
- 3
- in the catalogue
History & name
Dublin Airport opened in 1940 and takes its name from Dublin, the city 11 km away. It is operated by DAA Public Limited Company and has 3 runways, the longest 3,110 m, at an elevation of 242 feet.
Read more: Wikipedia ↗ · Wikidata ↗
At a glance
- Full name
- Dublin Airport
- Serves
- Dublin, Ireland
- City centre
- 11 km from Dublin
- Opened
- 1940
- Operator
- DAA Public Limited Company
- Runways
- 3 runways, longest 3,110 m
- Elevation
- 242 ft (74 m)
- Website
- dublinairport.com ↗
Where it sits
53.4°N, 6.3°W puts DUB in the northern hemisphere, 5,941 km from the equator and 4,067 km from the North pole.
Of the 661 airports on this site it is the 36th most northerly, which makes it the 626th most southerly.
Straight through the middle
Straight down through the centre of the Earth comes out at 53.4°S, 173.7°E. The nearest airport on this site to that point is Dunedin (DUD) in New Zealand, still 872 km away — most of the planet's antipodes are ocean.
What’s near it
The closest other airport on this site is Belfast (BFS), 137 km away in a straight line. Nothing else on this site is within 100 km.
Distances from DUB
Great circle distance and an estimated time in the air. The longest is New York, at 5,103 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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