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title: "FCO — Rome–Fiumicino Leonardo da Vinci Airport, Rome · Orbit"
description: "Rome–Fiumicino Leonardo da Vinci International Airport (FCO/LIRF) serves Rome, Italy. Opened 1960, named after Leonardo da Vinci, 51.3 million passengers in 2025."
url: https://orbitflights.app/airports/fco
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Rome · Italy · Europe

# FCO — Rome–Fiumicino Leonardo da Vinci

Rome–Fiumicino Leonardo da Vinci International Airport serves Rome, Italy, 24 km from the city centre, and sits at 41.8°N, 12.3°E. This site carries 6 routes touching it, with the great circle distance for each.

**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 after **Leonardo da Vinci** — Italian Renaissance polymath (1452−1519)

Read more: [Wikipedia ↗](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rome%5FFiumicino%5FAirport) · [Wikidata ↗](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19101)

## 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)

**Map**
[Open in Google Maps ↗](https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=41.80450,12.25200)

**Website**
[adr.it ↗](http://www.adr.it/portal/portal/adr/Fiumicino/Leonardo%5Fda%5Fvinci/Header%5FWindow?action=2)

## 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.

CIA Ciampino–G. B. Pastine 28 km

## Distances from FCO

Great circle distance and an estimated time in the air. The longest is Tokyo, at 9,892 km.

| To                                                      |     | Distance | Estimated |
| ------------------------------------------------------- | --- | -------- | --------- |
| [Barcelona](https://orbitflights.app/routes/bcn-to-fco) | BCN | 848 km   | 1h 33m    |
| [Paris](https://orbitflights.app/routes/cdg-to-fco)     | CDG | 1,101 km | 1h 52m    |
| [London](https://orbitflights.app/routes/lhr-to-fco)    | LHR | 1,444 km | 2h 18m    |
| [Dubai](https://orbitflights.app/routes/fco-to-dxb)     | DXB | 4,343 km | 5h 54m    |
| [New York](https://orbitflights.app/routes/fco-to-jfk)  | JFK | 6,866 km | 9h 02m    |
| [Tokyo](https://orbitflights.app/routes/fco-to-hnd)     | HND | 9,892 km | 12h 48m   |

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

## 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 FCO to anywhere →](https://orbitflights.app/distance) [Flights to Rome →](https://orbitflights.app/flights-to/rome)

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