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title: "LOS — Murtala Muhammed Airport, Lagos · Orbit"
description: "Murtala Muhammed International Airport (LOS/DNMM) serves Lagos, Nigeria. Opened 1979, named after Murtala Muhammed, 5.7 million passengers in 2021, 16 km from Lagos."
url: https://orbitflights.app/airports/los
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Lagos · Nigeria · Africa

# LOS — Murtala Muhammed

Murtala Muhammed International Airport serves Lagos, Nigeria, 16 km from the city centre, and sits at 6.6°N, 3.3°E. This site carries 1 route touching it, with the great circle distance for each.

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

**ICAO**
DNMM
used by air traffic control

**Opened**
1979
per Wikidata

**Passengers**
5.7M
in 2021

## History & name

Murtala Muhammed International Airport opened in 1979 and honours Murtala Muhammed (1938–1976), a Nigerian politician and general. It lies 16 km from Lagos, handled 5.7 million passengers in 2021 and has two runways, the longer 3,900 m.

Named after **Murtala Muhammed** — Nigerian politician and general (1938–1976)

Read more: [Wikipedia ↗](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murtala%5FMuhammed%5FInternational%5FAirport) · [Wikidata ↗](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1043631)

## At a glance

**Full name**
Murtala Muhammed International Airport

**Serves**
Lagos, Nigeria

**City centre**
16 km from Lagos

**Opened**
1979

**Passengers**
5.7 million in 2021

**Runways**
2 runways, longest 3,900 m

**Elevation**
135 ft (41 m)

**Map**
[Open in Google Maps ↗](https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=6.57740,3.32120)

**Website**
[faannigeria.org ↗](http://www.faannigeria.org/nigeria-airport.php?airport=1)

## Where it sits

6.6°N, 3.3°E puts LOS in the northern hemisphere, 731 km from the equator and 9,276 km from the North pole.

Of the 661 airports on this site it is the **487th** most northerly, which makes it the 175th most southerly.

## Straight through the middle

Straight down through the centre of the Earth comes out at 6.6°S, 176.7°W. The nearest airport on this site to that point is Funafuti (FUN) in Tuvalu, still 503 km away — most of the planet's antipodes are ocean.

## What’s near it

The closest other airport on this site is **Cotonou Cadjehoun** (COO), 106 km away in a straight line. Nothing else on this site is within 100 km.

## Distances from LOS

Great circle distance and an estimated time in the air.

| To                                                   |     | Distance | Estimated |
| ---------------------------------------------------- | --- | -------- | --------- |
| [London](https://orbitflights.app/routes/lhr-to-los) | LHR | 5,004 km | 6h 43m    |

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

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

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