- IATA
- DXB
- the code on your bag tag
- ICAO
- OMDB
- used by air traffic control
- Opened
- 1960
- per Wikidata
- Passengers
- 95.2M
- in 2025
History & name
Since 1960, Dubai International Airport has served Dubai, which gives it its name and lies 20 km away. Operated by Dubai Airports Company, it has two runways of up to 4,447 m and handled 95.2 million passengers in 2025.
Read more: Wikipedia ↗ · Wikidata ↗
At a glance
- Full name
- Dubai International Airport
- Serves
- Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- City centre
- 20 km from Dubai
- Opened
- 1960
- Operator
- Dubai Airports Company
- Passengers
- 95.2 million in 2025
- Runways
- 2 runways, longest 4,447 m
- Elevation
- 62 ft (19 m)
- Website
- dubaiairport.com ↗
Where it sits
25.2°N, 55.4°E puts DXB in the northern hemisphere, 2,808 km from the equator and 7,200 km from the North pole.
Of the 661 airports on this site it is the 349th most northerly, which makes it the 313th most southerly.
Straight through the middle
Straight down through the centre of the Earth comes out at 25.2°S, 124.6°W. The nearest airport on this site to that point is Mataveri (IPC) in Chile, still 1,531 km away — most of the planet's antipodes are ocean.
What’s near it
The closest other airport on this site is Sharjah (SHJ), 17 km away in a straight line. 3 airports here sit within 100 km — worth checking which one your ticket actually says.
Distances from DXB
Great circle distance and an estimated time in the air. The longest is Auckland, at 14,199 km.
| To | Distance | Estimated | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mumbai | BOM | 1,925 km | 2h 54m |
| Delhi | DEL | 2,182 km | 3h 13m |
| Cairo | CAI | 2,417 km | 3h 30m |
| Istanbul | IST | 3,030 km | 4h 16m |
| Bucharest | OTP | 3,394 km | 4h 43m |
| Nairobi | NBO | 3,559 km | 4h 55m |
| Rome | FCO | 4,343 km | 5h 54m |
| Zurich | ZRH | 4,769 km | 6h 26m |
| Frankfurt | FRA | 4,845 km | 6h 31m |
| Bangkok | BKK | 4,903 km | 6h 36m |
| Amsterdam | AMS | 5,169 km | 6h 55m |
| Paris | CDG | 5,239 km | 7h 01m |
| London | LHR | 5,498 km | 7h 20m |
| Madrid | MAD | 5,650 km | 7h 31m |
| Singapore | SIN | 5,846 km | 7h 46m |
| Johannesburg | JNB | 6,413 km | 8h 28m |
| Manila | MNL | 6,905 km | 9h 05m |
| Auckland | AKL | 14,199 km | 18h 09m |
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.
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.
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