- IATA
- KEF
- the code on your bag tag
- ICAO
- BIKF
- used by air traffic control
- Opened
- 1943
- per Wikidata
- Passengers
- 7.8M
- in 2023
History & name
Keflavik International Airport opened in 1943 and takes its name from Keflavík. Operated by Isavia, it lies 38 km from Reykjavík and handled 7.8 million passengers in 2023 on two runways, the longer 3,065 m.
Read more: Wikipedia ↗ · Wikidata ↗
At a glance
- Full name
- Keflavik International Airport
- Serves
- Reykjavík, Iceland
- City centre
- 38 km from Reykjavík
- Opened
- 1943
- Operator
- Isavia
- Passengers
- 7.8 million in 2023
- Runways
- 2 runways, longest 3,065 m
- Elevation
- 171 ft (52 m)
- Website
- isavia.is ↗
Where it sits
64.0°N, 22.6°W puts KEF in the northern hemisphere, 7,115 km from the equator and 2,893 km from the North pole.
Of the 661 airports on this site it is the 8th most northerly, which makes it the 654th most southerly.
Straight through the middle
Straight down through the centre of the Earth comes out at 64.0°S, 157.4°E. The nearest airport on this site to that point is Dunedin (DUD) in New Zealand, still 2,158 km away — most of the planet's antipodes are ocean.
What’s near it
The closest other airport on this site is Akureyri (AEY), 284 km away in a straight line. Nothing else on this site is within 100 km.
Distances from KEF
Great circle distance and an estimated time in the air. The longest is New York, at 4,163 km.
| To | Distance | Estimated | |
|---|---|---|---|
| London | LHR | 1,895 km | 2h 51m |
| Copenhagen | CPH | 2,144 km | 3h 10m |
| Boston | BOS | 3,875 km | 5h 19m |
| New York | JFK | 4,163 km | 5h 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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