- IATA
- IST
- the code on your bag tag
- ICAO
- LTFM
- used by air traffic control
- Opened
- 2018
- per Wikidata
- Passengers
- 84.5M
- in 2025
History & name
İstanbul Airport opened in 2018 and takes its name from Istanbul, 34 km away. It is operated by the General Directorate of State Airports (Turkey) and handled 84.5 million passengers in 2025, with 6 runways, the longest 4,100 m.
Read more: Wikipedia ↗ · Wikidata ↗
At a glance
- Full name
- İstanbul Airport
- Serves
- Istanbul, Turkey
- City centre
- 34 km from Istanbul
- Opened
- 2018
- Operator
- General Directorate of State Airports (Turkey)
- Passengers
- 84.5 million in 2025
- Runways
- 6 runways, longest 4,100 m
- Elevation
- 325 ft (99 m)
- Website
- istairport.com ↗
Where it sits
41.3°N, 28.7°E puts IST in the northern hemisphere, 4,590 km from the equator and 5,418 km from the North pole.
Of the 661 airports on this site it is the 158th most northerly, which makes it the 504th most southerly.
Straight through the middle
Straight down through the centre of the Earth comes out at 41.3°S, 151.3°W. The nearest airport on this site to that point is Rarotonga (RAR) in Cook Islands, still 2,372 km away — most of the planet's antipodes are ocean.
What’s near it
The closest other airport on this site is Istanbul Sabiha Gökçen (SAW), 64 km away in a straight line. It is the only one within 100 km.
Distances from IST
Great circle distance and an estimated time in the air. The longest is Tokyo, at 8,980 km.
| To | Distance | Estimated | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bucharest | OTP | 424 km | 1h 02m |
| Athens | ATH | 553 km | 1h 11m |
| Cairo | CAI | 1,264 km | 2h 04m |
| Frankfurt | FRA | 1,837 km | 2h 47m |
| Paris | CDG | 2,212 km | 3h 15m |
| London | LHR | 2,487 km | 3h 35m |
| Dubai | DXB | 3,030 km | 4h 16m |
| Johannesburg | JNB | 7,496 km | 9h 49m |
| Bangkok | BKK | 7,514 km | 9h 50m |
| New York | JFK | 8,026 km | 10h 28m |
| Singapore | SIN | 8,681 km | 11h 17m |
| Tokyo | NRT | 8,980 km | 11h 40m |
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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