- IATA
- IST
- the code on your bag tag
- ICAO
- LTFM
- used by air traffic control
- Routes here
- 12
- in the catalogue
- From the equator
- 4,590 km
- 5,418 km from the North pole
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 |
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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