- IATA
- FCO
- the code on your bag tag
- ICAO
- LIRF
- used by air traffic control
- Opened
- 1960
- per Wikidata
- Passengers
- 51.3M
- in 2025
History & name
Leonardo da Vinci International Airport at Fiumicino opened in 1960 and is named after Rome, Fiumicino and Leonardo da Vinci, the Italian Renaissance polymath (1452−1519). Operated by Aeroporti di Roma SpA, it lies 24 km from Rome with 3 runways up to 3,902 m, and handled 51.3 million passengers in 2025.
Named afterLeonardo da Vinci — Italian Renaissance polymath (1452−1519)
Read more: Wikipedia ↗ · Wikidata ↗
At a glance
- Full name
- Rome–Fiumicino Leonardo da Vinci International Airport
- Serves
- Rome, Italy
- City centre
- 24 km from Rome
- Opened
- 1960
- Operator
- Aeroporti di Roma SpA
- Passengers
- 51.3 million in 2025
- Runways
- 3 runways, longest 3,902 m
- Elevation
- 13 ft (4 m)
- Website
- adr.it ↗
Where it sits
41.8°N, 12.3°E puts FCO in the northern hemisphere, 4,648 km from the equator and 5,359 km from the North pole.
Of the 661 airports on this site it is the 147th most northerly, which makes it the 515th most southerly.
Straight through the middle
Straight down through the centre of the Earth comes out at 41.8°S, 167.7°W. The nearest airport on this site to that point is Hawke's Bay (NPE) in New Zealand, still 1,322 km away — most of the planet's antipodes are ocean.
What’s near it
The closest other airport on this site is Ciampino–G. B. Pastine (CIA), 28 km away in a straight line. It is the only one within 100 km.
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.
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