- IATA
- IAD
- the code on your bag tag
- ICAO
- KIAD
- used by air traffic control
- Routes here
- 1
- in the catalogue
- From the equator
- 4,330 km
- 5,677 km from the North pole
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 |
What’s on this page, and what isn’t
Every figure here is computed from the airport’s coordinates and the rest of the table — distances, bearings, ranks, the antipode. Nothing is written by hand, so nothing on it is a half-remembered fact about a terminal that was rebuilt in 2019.
Which also means what you won’t find: no passenger figures, no terminal maps, no airline lists, no live departures. Orbit is a logbook, not a flight tracker, and a page that invented those would be worse than one that leaves them out.
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