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title: "KEF — Keflavik Airport, Reykjavík · Orbit"
description: "Keflavik International Airport (KEF/BIKF) serves Reykjavík, Iceland. Opened 1943, 7.8 million passengers in 2023, 38 km from Reykjavík."
url: https://orbitflights.app/airports/kef
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Reykjavík · Iceland · Europe

# KEF — Keflavik

Keflavik International Airport serves Reykjavík, Iceland, 38 km from the city centre, and sits at 64.0°N, 22.6°W. This site carries 4 routes touching it, with the great circle distance for each.

**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 ↗](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keflav%C3%ADk%5FInternational%5FAirport) · [Wikidata ↗](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q139921)

## 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)

**Map**
[Open in Google Maps ↗](https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=63.98500,-22.60560)

**Website**
[isavia.is ↗](https://www.isavia.is/en/keflavik-airport)

## 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](https://orbitflights.app/routes/lhr-to-kef)     | LHR | 1,895 km | 2h 51m    |
| [Copenhagen](https://orbitflights.app/routes/cph-to-kef) | CPH | 2,144 km | 3h 10m    |
| [Boston](https://orbitflights.app/routes/kef-to-bos)     | BOS | 3,875 km | 5h 19m    |
| [New York](https://orbitflights.app/routes/kef-to-jfk)   | JFK | 4,163 km | 5h 40m    |

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

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

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