- IATA
- ICN
- the code on your bag tag
- ICAO
- RKSI
- used by air traffic control
- Routes here
- 9
- in the catalogue
- From the equator
- 4,166 km
- 5,841 km from the North pole
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 |
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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