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title: "JED — King Abdulaziz Airport, Jeddah · Orbit"
description: "King Abdulaziz International Airport (JED/OEJN) serves Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Opened 1981, named after Ibn Saud, 14.1 million passengers in 2021, 21 km from Jeddah."
url: https://orbitflights.app/airports/jed
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Jeddah · Saudi Arabia · Asia

# JED — King Abdulaziz

King Abdulaziz International Airport serves Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, 21 km from the city centre, and sits at 21.7°N, 39.2°E. This site carries 1 route touching it, with the great circle distance for each.

**IATA**
JED
the code on your bag tag

**ICAO**
OEJN
used by air traffic control

**Opened**
1981
per Wikidata

**Passengers**
14.1M
in 2021

## History & name

King Abdulaziz International Airport opened in 1981 and honours Ibn Saud, King of Saudi Arabia from 1932 to 1953\. It lies 21 km from Jeddah, handled 14.1 million passengers in 2021 and has 3 runways, the longest 4,000 m.

Named after **Ibn Saud** — King of Saudi Arabia from 1932 to 1953

Read more: [Wikipedia ↗](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King%5FAbdulaziz%5FInternational%5FAirport) · [Wikidata ↗](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q153592)

## At a glance

**Full name**
King Abdulaziz International Airport

**Serves**
Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

**City centre**
21 km from Jeddah

**Opened**
1981

**Passengers**
14.1 million in 2021

**Runways**
3 runways, longest 4,000 m

**Elevation**
48 ft (15 m)

**Map**
[Open in Google Maps ↗](https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=21.68020,39.15740)

**Website**
[kaia.sa ↗](https://www.kaia.sa/)

## Where it sits

21.7°N, 39.2°E puts JED in the northern hemisphere, 2,411 km from the equator and 7,597 km from the North pole.

Of the 661 airports on this site it is the **380th** most northerly, which makes it the 282nd most southerly.

## Straight through the middle

Straight down through the centre of the Earth comes out at 21.7°S, 140.8°W. The nearest airport on this site to that point is Fa'a'ā (PPT) in French Polynesia, still 1,026 km away — most of the planet's antipodes are ocean.

## What’s near it

The closest other airport on this site is **Prince Mohammad Bin Abdulaziz** (MED), 324 km away in a straight line. Nothing else on this site is within 100 km.

## Distances from JED

Great circle distance and an estimated time in the air.

| To                                                   |     | Distance | Estimated |
| ---------------------------------------------------- | --- | -------- | --------- |
| [London](https://orbitflights.app/routes/lhr-to-jed) | LHR | 4,748 km | 6h 24m    |

[Distance from JED to any airport →](https://orbitflights.app/distance?from=JED&to=LHR) [Map a trip from JED →](https://orbitflights.app/tools/flight-route-map?r=JED-LHR)

## 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 JED to anywhere →](https://orbitflights.app/distance)

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