- IATA
- IAD
- the code on your bag tag
- ICAO
- KIAD
- used by air traffic control
- Opened
- 1962
- per Wikidata
- Passengers
- 27.3M
- in 2024
History & name
Washington Dulles International Airport opened in 1962 and is named after Washington and John Foster Dulles (1888-1959), a United States Secretary of State. Run by the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority, it lies 37 km from Washington and handled 27.3 million passengers in 2024. It has 4 runways, the longest 3,505 m.
Named afterJohn Foster Dulles — United States Secretary of State (1888-1959)
Read more: Wikipedia ↗ · Wikidata ↗
At a glance
- Full name
- Washington Dulles International Airport
- Serves
- Washington, United States
- City centre
- 37 km from Washington
- Opened
- 1962
- Operator
- Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority
- Passengers
- 27.3 million in 2024
- Runways
- 4 runways, longest 3,505 m
- Elevation
- 312 ft (95 m)
- Website
- mwaa.com ↗
Where it sits
38.9°N, 77.5°W puts IAD in the northern hemisphere, 4,330 km from the equator and 5,677 km from the North pole.
Of the 661 airports on this site it is the 191st most northerly, which makes it the 471st most southerly.
Straight through the middle
Straight down through the centre of the Earth comes out at 38.9°S, 102.5°E. The nearest airport on this site to that point is Perth (PER) in Australia, still 1,442 km away — most of the planet's antipodes are ocean.
What’s near it
The closest other airport on this site is Ronald Reagan Washington National (DCA), 38 km away in a straight line. 2 airports here sit within 100 km — worth checking which one your ticket actually says.
Distances from IAD
Great circle distance and an estimated time in the air.
| To | Distance | Estimated | |
|---|---|---|---|
| London | LHR | 5,902 km | 7h 50m |
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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