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title: "EWR — Newark Liberty Airport, Newark · Orbit"
description: "Newark Liberty International Airport (EWR/KEWR) serves Newark, United States. Opened 1928, 49.2 million passengers in 2023, 5 km from Newark."
url: https://orbitflights.app/airports/ewr
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Newark · United States · North America

# EWR — Newark Liberty

Newark Liberty International Airport serves Newark, United States, 5 km from the city centre, and sits at 40.7°N, 74.2°W. This site carries 3 routes touching it, with the great circle distance for each.

**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 ↗](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newark%5FLiberty%5FInternational%5FAirport) · [Wikidata ↗](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q466786)

## 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)

**Map**
[Open in Google Maps ↗](https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=40.68940,-74.17050)

**Website**
[panynj.gov ↗](https://www.panynj.gov/CommutingTravel/airports/html/newarkliberty.html)

## 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.

LGA LaGuardia 27 km [JFK John F. Kennedy 33 km](https://orbitflights.app/airports/jfk)

## 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](https://orbitflights.app/routes/lhr-to-ewr)     | LHR | 5,562 km  | 7h 25m    |
| [Copenhagen](https://orbitflights.app/routes/cph-to-ewr) | CPH | 6,207 km  | 8h 13m    |
| [Singapore](https://orbitflights.app/routes/sin-to-ewr)  | SIN | 15,337 km | 19h 34m   |

[Distance from EWR to any airport →](https://orbitflights.app/distance?from=EWR&to=SIN) [Map a trip from EWR →](https://orbitflights.app/tools/flight-route-map?r=EWR-SIN)

## 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 EWR to anywhere →](https://orbitflights.app/distance)

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