--- title: "MUC — Munich Airport, Munich · Orbit" description: "Munich Airport (MUC/EDDM) serves Munich, Germany. Opened 1992, named after Franz Josef Strauß, 41.6 million passengers in 2024, 29 km from Munich." url: https://orbitflights.app/airports/muc --- Munich · Germany · Europe # MUC — Munich Munich Airport serves Munich, Germany, 29 km from the city centre, and sits at 48.4°N, 11.8°E. This site carries 4 routes touching it, with the great circle distance for each. **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 after **Franz Josef Strauß** — German politician (1915–1988) Read more: [Wikipedia ↗](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munich%5FAirport) · [Wikidata ↗](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q131402) ## 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) **Map** [Open in Google Maps ↗](https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=48.35380,11.78610) **Website** [munich-airport.com ↗](http://www.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. ## Distances from MUC Great circle distance and an estimated time in the air. The longest is Beijing, at 7,722 km. | To | | Distance | Estimated | | ------------------------------------------------------ | --- | -------- | --------- | | [London](https://orbitflights.app/routes/lhr-to-muc) | LHR | 941 km | 1h 40m | | [Doha](https://orbitflights.app/routes/muc-to-doh) | DOH | 4,302 km | 5h 51m | | [New York](https://orbitflights.app/routes/muc-to-jfk) | JFK | 6,481 km | 8h 33m | | [Beijing](https://orbitflights.app/routes/muc-to-pek) | PEK | 7,722 km | 10h 06m | [Distance from MUC to any airport →](https://orbitflights.app/distance?from=MUC&to=PEK) [Map a trip from MUC →](https://orbitflights.app/tools/flight-route-map?r=MUC-PEK) ## 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 MUC to anywhere →](https://orbitflights.app/distance) ## Flown through MUC? Orbit knows all 8,801 airports offline and works out the distance the moment you enter two codes. [Download now](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.qwertybit.orbit) --- Markdown copy of https://orbitflights.app/airports/muc for language models and agents. Site index: https://orbitflights.app/llms.txt