--- title: "DXB — Dubai Airport, Dubai · Orbit" description: "Dubai International Airport (DXB/OMDB) serves Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Opened 1960, 95.2 million passengers in 2025, 20 km from Dubai." url: https://orbitflights.app/airports/dxb --- Dubai · United Arab Emirates · Asia # DXB — Dubai Dubai International Airport serves Dubai, United Arab Emirates, 20 km from the city centre, and sits at 25.2°N, 55.4°E. This site carries 18 routes touching it, with the great circle distance for each. **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 ↗](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dubai%5FInternational%5FAirport) · [Wikidata ↗](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q193439) ## 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) **Map** [Open in Google Maps ↗](https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=25.24980,55.37100) **Website** [dubaiairport.com ↗](https://www.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. SHJ Sharjah 17 km DWC Al Maktoum 45 km RKT Ras Al Khaimah 70 km ## 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](https://orbitflights.app/routes/bom-to-dxb) | BOM | 1,925 km | 2h 54m | | [Delhi](https://orbitflights.app/routes/del-to-dxb) | DEL | 2,182 km | 3h 13m | | [Cairo](https://orbitflights.app/routes/cai-to-dxb) | CAI | 2,417 km | 3h 30m | | [Istanbul](https://orbitflights.app/routes/ist-to-dxb) | IST | 3,030 km | 4h 16m | | [Bucharest](https://orbitflights.app/routes/otp-to-dxb) | OTP | 3,394 km | 4h 43m | | [Nairobi](https://orbitflights.app/routes/dxb-to-nbo) | NBO | 3,559 km | 4h 55m | | [Rome](https://orbitflights.app/routes/fco-to-dxb) | FCO | 4,343 km | 5h 54m | | [Zurich](https://orbitflights.app/routes/zrh-to-dxb) | ZRH | 4,769 km | 6h 26m | | [Frankfurt](https://orbitflights.app/routes/fra-to-dxb) | FRA | 4,845 km | 6h 31m | | [Bangkok](https://orbitflights.app/routes/dxb-to-bkk) | BKK | 4,903 km | 6h 36m | | [Amsterdam](https://orbitflights.app/routes/ams-to-dxb) | AMS | 5,169 km | 6h 55m | | [Paris](https://orbitflights.app/routes/cdg-to-dxb) | CDG | 5,239 km | 7h 01m | | [London](https://orbitflights.app/routes/lhr-to-dxb) | LHR | 5,498 km | 7h 20m | | [Madrid](https://orbitflights.app/routes/mad-to-dxb) | MAD | 5,650 km | 7h 31m | | [Singapore](https://orbitflights.app/routes/dxb-to-sin) | SIN | 5,846 km | 7h 46m | | [Johannesburg](https://orbitflights.app/routes/dxb-to-jnb) | JNB | 6,413 km | 8h 28m | | [Manila](https://orbitflights.app/routes/dxb-to-mnl) | MNL | 6,905 km | 9h 05m | | [Auckland](https://orbitflights.app/routes/dxb-to-akl) | AKL | 14,199 km | 18h 09m | [Distance from DXB to any airport →](https://orbitflights.app/distance?from=DXB&to=AKL) [Map a trip from DXB →](https://orbitflights.app/tools/flight-route-map?r=DXB-AKL) ## 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 DXB to anywhere →](https://orbitflights.app/distance) [Flights to Dubai →](https://orbitflights.app/flights-to/dubai) ## Flown through DXB? Orbit knows all 8,801 airports offline and works out the distance the moment you enter two codes. [Download now](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.qwertybit.orbit) --- Markdown copy of https://orbitflights.app/airports/dxb for language models and agents. Site index: https://orbitflights.app/llms.txt