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title: "FAO — Faro - Gago Coutinho Airport, Faro · Orbit"
description: "Faro - Gago Coutinho International Airport (FAO/LPFR) serves Faro, Portugal. Opened 1965, 2.2 million passengers in 2020, 4 km from Faro."
url: https://orbitflights.app/airports/fao
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Faro · Portugal · Europe

# FAO — Faro - Gago Coutinho

Faro - Gago Coutinho International Airport serves Faro, Portugal, 4 km from the city centre, and sits at 37.0°N, 8.0°W. This site carries 1 route touching it, with the great circle distance for each.

**IATA**
FAO
the code on your bag tag

**ICAO**
LPFR
used by air traffic control

**Opened**
1965
per Wikidata

**Passengers**
2.2M
in 2020

## History & name

Faro - Gago Coutinho International Airport opened in 1965 and takes its name from Faro, just 4 km away. Operated by ANA – Aeroportos de Portugal, it has one runway of 2,490 m and handled 2.2 million passengers in 2020.

Read more: [Wikipedia ↗](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faro%5FAirport%5F%28Portugal%29) · [Wikidata ↗](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q667001)

## At a glance

**Full name**
Faro - Gago Coutinho International Airport

**Serves**
Faro, Portugal

**City centre**
4 km from Faro

**Opened**
1965

**Operator**
ANA – Aeroportos de Portugal

**Passengers**
2.2 million in 2020

**Runways**
1 runway, 2,490 m

**Elevation**
24 ft (7 m)

**Map**
[Open in Google Maps ↗](https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=37.01590,-7.97090)

**Website**
[faroairport.pt ↗](http://faroairport.pt)

## Where it sits

37.0°N, 8.0°W puts FAO in the northern hemisphere, 4,116 km from the equator and 5,892 km from the North pole.

Of the 661 airports on this site it is the **216th** most northerly, which makes it the 446th most southerly.

## Straight through the middle

Straight down through the centre of the Earth comes out at 37.0°S, 172.0°E — 245 km from Auckland (AKL) in New Zealand, which is about as close to a true antipodal airport pair as this table gets.

## What’s near it

The closest other airport on this site is **Seville** (SVQ), 189 km away in a straight line. Nothing else on this site is within 100 km.

## Distances from FAO

Great circle distance and an estimated time in the air.

| To                                                   |     | Distance | Estimated |
| ---------------------------------------------------- | --- | -------- | --------- |
| [London](https://orbitflights.app/routes/lhr-to-fao) | LHR | 1,713 km | 2h 38m    |

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

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

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