--- title: "IST — İstanbul Airport, Istanbul · Orbit" description: "İstanbul Airport (IST/LTFM) serves Istanbul, Turkey. Opened 2018, 84.5 million passengers in 2025, 34 km from Istanbul. Map, website and distances to 12 destinations." url: https://orbitflights.app/airports/ist --- Istanbul · Turkey · Europe # IST — İstanbul İstanbul Airport serves Istanbul, Turkey, 34 km from the city centre, and sits at 41.3°N, 28.7°E. This site carries 12 routes touching it, with the great circle distance for each. **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 ↗](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Istanbul%5FAirport) · [Wikidata ↗](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3661908) ## 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) **Map** [Open in Google Maps ↗](https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=41.27490,28.73210) **Website** [istairport.com ↗](https://www.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. SAW Istanbul Sabiha Gökçen 64 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](https://orbitflights.app/routes/otp-to-ist) | OTP | 424 km | 1h 02m | | [Athens](https://orbitflights.app/routes/ath-to-ist) | ATH | 553 km | 1h 11m | | [Cairo](https://orbitflights.app/routes/ist-to-cai) | CAI | 1,264 km | 2h 04m | | [Frankfurt](https://orbitflights.app/routes/fra-to-ist) | FRA | 1,837 km | 2h 47m | | [Paris](https://orbitflights.app/routes/cdg-to-ist) | CDG | 2,212 km | 3h 15m | | [London](https://orbitflights.app/routes/lhr-to-ist) | LHR | 2,487 km | 3h 35m | | [Dubai](https://orbitflights.app/routes/ist-to-dxb) | DXB | 3,030 km | 4h 16m | | [Johannesburg](https://orbitflights.app/routes/ist-to-jnb) | JNB | 7,496 km | 9h 49m | | [Bangkok](https://orbitflights.app/routes/ist-to-bkk) | BKK | 7,514 km | 9h 50m | | [New York](https://orbitflights.app/routes/ist-to-jfk) | JFK | 8,026 km | 10h 28m | | [Singapore](https://orbitflights.app/routes/ist-to-sin) | SIN | 8,681 km | 11h 17m | | [Tokyo](https://orbitflights.app/routes/ist-to-nrt) | NRT | 8,980 km | 11h 40m | [Distance from IST to any airport →](https://orbitflights.app/distance?from=IST&to=NRT) [Map a trip from IST →](https://orbitflights.app/tools/flight-route-map?r=IST-NRT) ## Where these facts come from The profile is looked up, not written from memory: type, runways, elevation and the official website from [OurAirports](https://ourairports.com/data/) (public domain); opening year, namesake, operator and passenger count from [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/) (CC0); the city centre from [GeoNames](https://www.geonames.org/) (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. [Measure IST to anywhere →](https://orbitflights.app/distance) [Flights to Istanbul →](https://orbitflights.app/flights-to/istanbul) ## Flown through IST? Orbit knows all 8,801 airports offline and works out the distance the moment you enter two codes. [Download now](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.qwertybit.orbit) --- Markdown copy of https://orbitflights.app/airports/ist for language models and agents. Site index: https://orbitflights.app/llms.txt