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title: "FRA — Frankfurt Main Airport, Frankfurt · Orbit"
description: "Frankfurt Main Airport (FRA/EDDF) serves Frankfurt, Germany. Opened 1936, 61.6 million passengers in 2024, 13 km from Frankfurt am Main."
url: https://orbitflights.app/airports/fra
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Frankfurt · Germany · Europe

# FRA — Frankfurt Main

Frankfurt Main Airport serves Frankfurt, Germany, 13 km from the centre of Frankfurt am Main, and sits at 50.0°N, 8.6°E. This site carries 9 routes touching it, with the great circle distance for each.

**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 ↗](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankfurt%5FAirport) · [Wikidata ↗](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q46033)

## 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)

**Map**
[Open in Google Maps ↗](https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=50.02670,8.55840)

**Website**
[frankfurt-airport.de ↗](https://www.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](https://orbitflights.app/routes/lhr-to-fra)       | LHR | 654 km    | 1h 19m    |
| [Istanbul](https://orbitflights.app/routes/fra-to-ist)     | IST | 1,837 km  | 2h 47m    |
| [Dubai](https://orbitflights.app/routes/fra-to-dxb)        | DXB | 4,845 km  | 6h 31m    |
| [Delhi](https://orbitflights.app/routes/fra-to-del)        | DEL | 6,122 km  | 8h 06m    |
| [New York](https://orbitflights.app/routes/fra-to-jfk)     | JFK | 6,189 km  | 8h 11m    |
| [Johannesburg](https://orbitflights.app/routes/fra-to-jnb) | JNB | 8,690 km  | 11h 18m   |
| [Hong Kong](https://orbitflights.app/routes/fra-to-hkg)    | HKG | 9,154 km  | 11h 53m   |
| [Los Angeles](https://orbitflights.app/routes/fra-to-lax)  | LAX | 9,322 km  | 12h 05m   |
| [Singapore](https://orbitflights.app/routes/fra-to-sin)    | SIN | 10,280 km | 13h 17m   |

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

## Flown through FRA?

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