- IATA
- MIA
- the code on your bag tag
- ICAO
- KMIA
- used by air traffic control
- Opened
- 1928
- per Wikidata
- Passengers
- 55.3M
- in 2025
History & name
Miami International Airport dates from 1928 and lies 10 km from downtown Miami. It handled 55.3 million passengers in 2025 across 4 runways, the longest measuring 3,967 m, at just 8 ft above sea level.
Read more: Wikipedia ↗ · Wikidata ↗
At a glance
- Full name
- Miami International Airport
- Serves
- Miami, United States
- City centre
- 10 km from Miami
- Opened
- 1928
- Passengers
- 55.3 million in 2025
- Runways
- 4 runways, longest 3,967 m
- Elevation
- 8 ft (2 m)
- Website
- miami-airport.com ↗
Where it sits
25.8°N, 80.3°W puts MIA in the northern hemisphere, 2,868 km from the equator and 7,139 km from the North pole.
Of the 661 airports on this site it is the 340th most northerly, which makes it the 322nd most southerly.
Straight through the middle
Straight down through the centre of the Earth comes out at 25.8°S, 99.7°E. The nearest airport on this site to that point is Perth (PER) in Australia, still 1,722 km away — most of the planet's antipodes are ocean.
What’s near it
The closest other airport on this site is Fort Lauderdale Hollywood (FLL), 34 km away in a straight line. It is the only one within 100 km.
Distances from MIA
Great circle distance and an estimated time in the air. The longest is London, at 7,109 km.
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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