- IATA
- EWR
- the code on your bag tag
- ICAO
- KEWR
- used by air traffic control
- Opened
- 1928
- per Wikidata
- Passengers
- 49.2M
- in 2023
History & name
Newark Liberty International Airport opened in 1928 and is operated by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. It lies 5 km from Newark, has 3 runways up to 3,353 m, and handled 49.2 million passengers in 2023.
Read more: Wikipedia ↗ · Wikidata ↗
At a glance
- Full name
- Newark Liberty International Airport
- Serves
- Newark, United States
- City centre
- 5 km from Newark
- Opened
- 1928
- Operator
- Port Authority of New York and New Jersey
- Passengers
- 49.2 million in 2023
- Runways
- 3 runways, longest 3,353 m
- Elevation
- 18 ft (5 m)
- Website
- panynj.gov ↗
Where it sits
40.7°N, 74.2°W puts EWR in the northern hemisphere, 4,524 km from the equator and 5,483 km from the North pole.
Of the 661 airports on this site it is the 168th most northerly, which makes it the 494th most southerly.
Straight through the middle
Straight down through the centre of the Earth comes out at 40.7°S, 105.8°E. The nearest airport on this site to that point is Perth (PER) in Australia, still 1,329 km away — most of the planet's antipodes are ocean.
What’s near it
The closest other airport on this site is LaGuardia (LGA), 27 km away in a straight line. 2 airports here sit within 100 km — worth checking which one your ticket actually says.
Distances from EWR
Great circle distance and an estimated time in the air. The longest is Singapore, at 15,337 km.
| To | Distance | Estimated | |
|---|---|---|---|
| London | LHR | 5,562 km | 7h 25m |
| Copenhagen | CPH | 6,207 km | 8h 13m |
| Singapore | SIN | 15,337 km | 19h 34m |
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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