- IATA
- MUC
- the code on your bag tag
- ICAO
- EDDM
- used by air traffic control
- Opened
- 1992
- per Wikidata
- Passengers
- 41.6M
- in 2024
History & name
Munich Airport opened in 1992 and carries the name of Franz Josef Strauß (1915–1988), the German politician. Operated by Flughafen München GmbH, it lies 29 km from Munich and handled 41.6 million passengers in 2024 on two runways of up to 4,000 m.
Named afterFranz Josef Strauß — German politician (1915–1988)
Read more: Wikipedia ↗ · Wikidata ↗
At a glance
- Full name
- Munich Airport
- Serves
- Munich, Germany
- City centre
- 29 km from Munich
- Opened
- 1992
- Operator
- Flughafen München GmbH
- Passengers
- 41.6 million in 2024
- Runways
- 2 runways, longest 4,000 m
- Elevation
- 1,487 ft (453 m)
- Website
- munich-airport.com ↗
Where it sits
48.4°N, 11.8°E puts MUC in the northern hemisphere, 5,377 km from the equator and 4,631 km from the North pole.
Of the 661 airports on this site it is the 81st most northerly, which makes it the 581st most southerly.
Straight through the middle
Straight down through the centre of the Earth comes out at 48.4°S, 168.2°W. The nearest airport on this site to that point is Wellington (WLG) in New Zealand, still 1,545 km away — most of the planet's antipodes are ocean.
What’s near it
The closest other airport on this site is Salzburg (SZG), 110 km away in a straight line. Nothing else on this site is within 100 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.
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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