- IATA
- FRA
- the code on your bag tag
- ICAO
- EDDF
- used by air traffic control
- Opened
- 1936
- per Wikidata
- Passengers
- 61.6M
- in 2024
History & name
Frankfurt Airport has been open since 1936 and takes its name from Frankfurt, the city 13 km away. Operated by Fraport, it has 4 runways of up to 4,000 m, sits at 364 feet, and handled 61.6 million passengers in 2024.
Read more: Wikipedia ↗ · Wikidata ↗
At a glance
- Full name
- Frankfurt Main Airport
- Serves
- Frankfurt, Germany
- City centre
- 13 km from Frankfurt am Main
- Opened
- 1936
- Operator
- Fraport
- Passengers
- 61.6 million in 2024
- Runways
- 4 runways, longest 4,000 m
- Elevation
- 364 ft (111 m)
- Website
- frankfurt-airport.de ↗
Where it sits
50.0°N, 8.6°E puts FRA in the northern hemisphere, 5,563 km from the equator and 4,445 km from the North pole.
Of the 661 airports on this site it is the 70th most northerly, which makes it the 592nd most southerly.
Straight through the middle
Straight down through the centre of the Earth comes out at 50.0°S, 171.4°W. The nearest airport on this site to that point is Christchurch (CHC) in New Zealand, still 1,417 km away — most of the planet's antipodes are ocean.
What’s near it
The closest other airport on this site is Cologne Bonn (CGN), 137 km away in a straight line. Nothing else on this site is within 100 km.
Distances from FRA
Great circle distance and an estimated time in the air. The longest is Singapore, at 10,280 km.
| To | Distance | Estimated | |
|---|---|---|---|
| London | LHR | 654 km | 1h 19m |
| Istanbul | IST | 1,837 km | 2h 47m |
| Dubai | DXB | 4,845 km | 6h 31m |
| Delhi | DEL | 6,122 km | 8h 06m |
| New York | JFK | 6,189 km | 8h 11m |
| Johannesburg | JNB | 8,690 km | 11h 18m |
| Hong Kong | HKG | 9,154 km | 11h 53m |
| Los Angeles | LAX | 9,322 km | 12h 05m |
| Singapore | SIN | 10,280 km | 13h 17m |
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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