- IATA
- ICN
- the code on your bag tag
- ICAO
- RKSI
- used by air traffic control
- Opened
- 2001
- per Wikidata
- Passengers
- 74.1M
- in 2025
History & name
Incheon International Airport opened in 2001 and serves Seoul, 48 km away. Operated by the Incheon International Airport Corporation, it handled 74.1 million passengers in 2025 on 4 runways, the longest 4,000 m.
Read more: Wikipedia ↗ · Wikidata ↗
At a glance
- Full name
- Incheon International Airport
- Serves
- Seoul, South Korea
- City centre
- 48 km from Seoul
- Opened
- 2001
- Operator
- Incheon International Airport Corporation
- Passengers
- 74.1 million in 2025
- Runways
- 4 runways, longest 4,000 m
- Elevation
- 23 ft (7 m)
- Website
- airport.kr ↗
Where it sits
37.5°N, 126.5°E puts ICN in the northern hemisphere, 4,166 km from the equator and 5,841 km from the North pole.
Of the 661 airports on this site it is the 210th most northerly, which makes it the 452nd most southerly.
Straight through the middle
Straight down through the centre of the Earth comes out at 37.5°S, 53.5°W — 322 km from Capitan Corbeta CA Curbelo (PDP) in Uruguay, which is about as close to a true antipodal airport pair as this table gets.
What’s near it
The closest other airport on this site is Seoul Gimpo (GMP), 32 km away in a straight line. It is the only one within 100 km.
Distances from ICN
Great circle distance and an estimated time in the air. The longest is New York, at 11,089 km.
| To | Distance | Estimated | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shanghai | PVG | 822 km | 1h 31m |
| Tokyo | HND | 1,210 km | 2h 00m |
| Bangkok | BKK | 3,669 km | 5h 04m |
| Helsinki | HEL | 7,032 km | 9h 14m |
| Seattle | SEA | 8,373 km | 10h 54m |
| London | LHR | 8,861 km | 11h 31m |
| San Francisco | SFO | 9,085 km | 11h 47m |
| Los Angeles | LAX | 9,625 km | 12h 28m |
| New York | JFK | 11,089 km | 14h 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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