- IATA
- DXB
- the code on your bag tag
- ICAO
- OMDB
- used by air traffic control
- Routes here
- 18
- in the catalogue
- From the equator
- 2,808 km
- 7,200 km from the North pole
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 |
What’s on this page, and what isn’t
Every figure here is computed from the airport’s coordinates and the rest of the table — distances, bearings, ranks, the antipode. Nothing is written by hand, so nothing on it is a half-remembered fact about a terminal that was rebuilt in 2019.
Which also means what you won’t find: no passenger figures, no terminal maps, no airline lists, no live departures. Orbit is a logbook, not a flight tracker, and a page that invented those would be worse than one that leaves them out.
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