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JFK — John F. Kennedy

John F. Kennedy serves New York, United States, and sits at 40.6°N, 73.8°W. This site carries 28 routes touching it, with the great circle distance for each.

IATA
JFK
the code on your bag tag
ICAO
KJFK
used by air traffic control
Routes here
28
in the catalogue
From the equator
4,519 km
5,489 km from the North pole

Where it sits

40.6°N, 73.8°W puts JFK in the northern hemisphere, 4,519 km from the equator and 5,489 km from the North pole.

Of the 661 airports on this site it is the 169th most northerly, which makes it the 493rd most southerly.

Straight through the middle

Straight down through the centre of the Earth comes out at 40.6°S, 106.2°E. The nearest airport on this site to that point is Perth (PER) in Australia, still 1,302 km away — most of the planet's antipodes are ocean.

What’s near it

The closest other airport on this site is LaGuardia (LGA), 17 km away in a straight line. 2 airports here sit within 100 km — worth checking which one your ticket actually says.

LGALaGuardia17 kmEWRNewark Liberty33 km

Distances from JFK

Great circle distance and an estimated time in the air. The longest is Singapore, at 15,341 km.

ToDistanceEstimated
TorontoYYZ588 km1h 14m
ChicagoORD1,188 km1h 59m
MiamiMIA1,757 km2h 41m
CancúnCUN2,506 km3h 37m
San JuanSJU2,578 km3h 42m
DenverDEN2,610 km3h 45m
SeattleSEA3,887 km5h 20m
Los AngelesLAX3,974 km5h 26m
San FranciscoSFO4,152 km5h 40m
ReykjavíkKEF4,163 km5h 40m
DublinDUB5,103 km6h 51m
LisbonLIS5,404 km7h 13m
LondonLHR5,540 km7h 23m
MadridMAD5,760 km7h 40m
ParisCDG5,834 km7h 45m
AmsterdamAMS5,848 km7h 46m
FrankfurtFRA6,189 km8h 11m
ZurichZRH6,310 km8h 20m
MunichMUC6,481 km8h 33m
RomeFCO6,866 km9h 02m
IstanbulIST8,026 km10h 28m
TokyoNRT10,830 km13h 58m
SeoulICN11,089 km14h 17m
Hong KongHKG12,970 km16h 37m
Hong KongHKG12,970 km16h 37m
ManilaMNL13,696 km17h 31m
AucklandAKL14,215 km18h 10m
SingaporeSIN15,341 km19h 34m

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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