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title: "MXP — Milan Malpensa Airport, Milan · Orbit"
description: "Milan Malpensa International Airport (MXP/LIMC) serves Milan, Italy. Opened 1909, named after Silvio Berlusconi, 31.4 million passengers in 2025, 40 km from Milan."
url: https://orbitflights.app/airports/mxp
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Milan · Italy · Europe

# MXP — Milan Malpensa

Milan Malpensa International Airport serves Milan, Italy, 40 km from the city centre, and sits at 45.6°N, 8.7°E. This site carries 2 routes touching it, with the great circle distance for each.

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

**ICAO**
LIMC
used by air traffic control

**Opened**
1909
per Wikidata

**Passengers**
31.4M
in 2025

## History & name

Milan Malpensa International Airport opened in 1909, and its names link it to Milan, Busto Arsizio and Cascina Malpensa as well as to Silvio Berlusconi (1936–2023), the Italian media tycoon and politician. Run by Società Esercizi Aeroportuali SEA, it lies 40 km from Milan and handled 31.4 million passengers in 2025.

Named after **Silvio Berlusconi** — Italian media tycoon and politician (1936–2023)

Read more: [Wikipedia ↗](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malpensa%5FAirport) · [Wikidata ↗](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60910)

## At a glance

**Full name**
Milan Malpensa International Airport

**Serves**
Milan, Italy

**City centre**
40 km from Milan

**Opened**
1909

**Operator**
Società Esercizi Aeroportuali SEA

**Passengers**
31.4 million in 2025

**Runways**
2 runways, longest 3,920 m

**Elevation**
768 ft (234 m)

**Map**
[Open in Google Maps ↗](https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=45.63060,8.72810)

**Website**
[sea-aeroportimilano.it ↗](http://www.sea-aeroportimilano.it/en/malpensa/index.phtml)

## Where it sits

45.6°N, 8.7°E puts MXP in the northern hemisphere, 5,074 km from the equator and 4,934 km from the North pole.

Of the 661 airports on this site it is the **105th** most northerly, which makes it the 557th most southerly.

## Straight through the middle

Straight down through the centre of the Earth comes out at 45.6°S, 171.3°W. The nearest airport on this site to that point is Hawke's Bay (NPE) in New Zealand, still 1,187 km away — most of the planet's antipodes are ocean.

## What’s near it

The closest other airport on this site is **Milano Linate** (LIN), 47 km away in a straight line. 2 airports here sit within 100 km — worth checking which one your ticket actually says.

LIN Milano Linate 47 km BGY Il Caravaggio 76 km

## Distances from MXP

Great circle distance and an estimated time in the air. The longest is Bucharest, at 1,366 km.

| To                                                      |     | Distance | Estimated |
| ------------------------------------------------------- | --- | -------- | --------- |
| [London](https://orbitflights.app/routes/lhr-to-mxp)    | LHR | 936 km   | 1h 40m    |
| [Bucharest](https://orbitflights.app/routes/otp-to-mxp) | OTP | 1,366 km | 2h 12m    |

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

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

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