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title: "LIS — Lisbon Humberto Delgado Airport, Lisbon · Orbit"
description: "Lisbon Humberto Delgado Airport (LIS/LPPT) serves Lisbon, Portugal. Opened 1942, named after Humberto Delgado, 9.3 million passengers in 2020, 6 km from Lisbon."
url: https://orbitflights.app/airports/lis
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Lisbon · Portugal · Europe

# LIS — Lisbon Humberto Delgado

Lisbon Humberto Delgado Airport serves Lisbon, Portugal, 6 km from the city centre, and sits at 38.8°N, 9.1°W. This site carries 3 routes touching it, with the great circle distance for each.

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

**ICAO**
LPPT
used by air traffic control

**Opened**
1942
per Wikidata

**Passengers**
9.3M
in 2020

## History & name

Lisbon Humberto Delgado Airport opened in 1942 and is named after Lisbon and the Portuguese politician Humberto Delgado (1906-1965). Operated by ANA – Aeroportos de Portugal, it lies just 6 km from Lisbon and handled 9.3 million passengers in 2020 on a single 3,810 m runway.

Named after **Humberto Delgado** — Portuguese politician (1906-1965)

Read more: [Wikipedia ↗](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisbon%5FAirport) · [Wikidata ↗](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q403671)

## At a glance

**Full name**
Lisbon Humberto Delgado Airport

**Serves**
Lisbon, Portugal

**City centre**
6 km from Lisbon

**Opened**
1942

**Operator**
ANA – Aeroportos de Portugal

**Passengers**
9.3 million in 2020

**Runways**
1 runway, 3,810 m

**Elevation**
374 ft (114 m)

**Map**
[Open in Google Maps ↗](https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=38.78130,-9.13590)

**Website**
[lisbonairport.pt ↗](https://lisbonairport.pt)

## Where it sits

38.8°N, 9.1°W puts LIS in the northern hemisphere, 4,312 km from the equator and 5,695 km from the North pole.

Of the 661 airports on this site it is the **195th** most northerly, which makes it the 467th most southerly.

## Straight through the middle

Straight down through the centre of the Earth comes out at 38.8°S, 170.9°E — 344 km from Nelson (NSN) in New Zealand, which is about as close to a true antipodal airport pair as this table gets.

## What’s near it

The closest other airport on this site is **Faro - Gago Coutinho** (FAO), 221 km away in a straight line. Nothing else on this site is within 100 km.

## Distances from LIS

Great circle distance and an estimated time in the air. The longest is Rio de Janeiro, at 7,715 km.

| To                                                           |     | Distance | Estimated |
| ------------------------------------------------------------ | --- | -------- | --------- |
| [London](https://orbitflights.app/routes/lhr-to-lis)         | LHR | 1,564 km | 2h 27m    |
| [New York](https://orbitflights.app/routes/lis-to-jfk)       | JFK | 5,404 km | 7h 13m    |
| [Rio de Janeiro](https://orbitflights.app/routes/lis-to-gig) | GIG | 7,715 km | 10h 05m   |

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

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

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