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LHR — London Heathrow

London Heathrow Airport serves London, United Kingdom, 24 km from the city centre, and sits at 51.5°N, 0.5°W. This site carries 72 routes touching it, with the great circle distance for each.

IATA
LHR
the code on your bag tag
ICAO
EGLL
used by air traffic control
Opened
1946
per Wikidata
Passengers
83.9M
in 2024

History & name

London Heathrow Airport takes its name from London and Heathrow and opened in 1946. Operated by Heathrow Airport Holdings, it lies 24 km from London and handled 83.9 million passengers in 2024 on two runways, the longer 3,901 m.

Read more: Wikipedia ↗ · Wikidata ↗

At a glance

Full name
London Heathrow Airport
Serves
London, United Kingdom
City centre
24 km from London
Opened
1946
Operator
Heathrow Airport Holdings
Passengers
83.9 million in 2024
Runways
2 runways, longest 3,901 m
Elevation
83 ft (25 m)
Map
Open in Google Maps ↗
Website
heathrow.com ↗

Where it sits

51.5°N, 0.5°W puts LHR in the northern hemisphere, 5,723 km from the equator and 4,284 km from the North pole.

Of the 661 airports on this site it is the 53rd most northerly, which makes it the 609th most southerly.

Straight through the middle

Straight down through the centre of the Earth comes out at 51.5°S, 179.5°E. The nearest airport on this site to that point is Dunedin (DUD) in New Zealand, still 921 km away — most of the planet's antipodes are ocean.

What’s near it

The closest other airport on this site is London City (LCY), 36 km away in a straight line. 4 airports here sit within 100 km — worth checking which one your ticket actually says.

LCYLondon City36 kmLGWLondon Gatwick41 kmLTNLondon Luton45 kmSTNLondon Stansted66 km

Distances from LHR

Great circle distance and an estimated time in the air. The longest is Perth, at 14,508 km.

ToDistanceEstimated
ParisCDG348 km56m
AmsterdamAMS370 km58m
DublinDUB449 km1h 03m
FrankfurtFRA654 km1h 19m
ZurichZRH788 km1h 29m
MilanMXP936 km1h 40m
MunichMUC941 km1h 40m
BerlinBER961 km1h 42m
CopenhagenCPH979 km1h 43m
PraguePRG1,044 km1h 48m
BarcelonaBCN1,148 km1h 56m
OsloOSL1,206 km2h 00m
MadridMAD1,244 km2h 03m
ViennaVIE1,275 km2h 05m
PalmaPMI1,348 km2h 11m
RomeFCO1,444 km2h 18m
StockholmARN1,463 km2h 19m
WarsawWAW1,469 km2h 20m
BudapestBUD1,489 km2h 21m
LisbonLIS1,564 km2h 27m
MálagaAGP1,676 km2h 35m
FaroFAO1,713 km2h 38m
HelsinkiHEL1,848 km2h 48m
ReykjavíkKEF1,895 km2h 51m
BucharestOTP2,105 km3h 07m
MarrakeshRAK2,294 km3h 21m
AthensATH2,427 km3h 31m
IstanbulIST2,487 km3h 35m
TenerifeTFS2,932 km4h 09m
BeirutBEY3,482 km4h 50m
CairoCAI3,533 km4h 53m
Tel AvivTLV3,589 km4h 58m
AmmanAMM3,683 km5h 05m
JeddahJED4,748 km6h 24m
RiyadhRUH4,940 km6h 38m
LagosLOS5,004 km6h 43m
AccraACC5,100 km6h 50m
BostonBOS5,240 km7h 01m
DohaDOH5,241 km7h 01m
DubaiDXB5,498 km7h 20m
Abu DhabiAUH5,516 km7h 21m
New YorkJFK5,540 km7h 23m
NewarkEWR5,562 km7h 25m
TorontoYYZ5,707 km7h 36m
WashingtonIAD5,902 km7h 50m
ChicagoORD6,344 km8h 23m
DelhiDEL6,731 km8h 52m
AtlantaATL6,761 km8h 54m
NairobiNBO6,841 km9h 00m
MiamiMIA7,109 km9h 20m
MumbaiBOM7,213 km9h 28m
Dallas-Fort WorthDFW7,627 km9h 59m
SeattleSEA7,702 km10h 04m
BangaloreBLR8,046 km10h 30m
BeijingPEK8,154 km10h 38m
MaléMLE8,539 km11h 07m
San FranciscoSFO8,616 km11h 12m
ColomboCMB8,715 km11h 20m
Los AngelesLAX8,760 km11h 23m
SeoulICN8,861 km11h 31m
JohannesburgJNB9,075 km11h 47m
ShanghaiPVG9,241 km11h 59m
São PauloGRU9,460 km12h 15m
BangkokBKK9,578 km12h 24m
TokyoNRT9,591 km12h 25m
TokyoHND9,592 km12h 25m
Hong KongHKG9,630 km12h 28m
Cape TownCPT9,682 km12h 32m
MauritiusMRU9,784 km12h 40m
Kuala LumpurKUL10,605 km13h 41m
SingaporeSIN10,883 km14h 01m
PerthPER14,508 km18h 32m
Distance from LHR to any airport →Map a trip from LHR →

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.

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.

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