- IATA
- ORD
- the code on your bag tag
- ICAO
- KORD
- used by air traffic control
- Routes here
- 4
- in the catalogue
- From the equator
- 4,668 km
- 5,340 km from the North pole
Where it sits
42.0°N, 87.9°W puts ORD in the northern hemisphere, 4,668 km from the equator and 5,340 km from the North pole.
Of the 661 airports on this site it is the 145th most northerly, which makes it the 517th most southerly.
Straight through the middle
Straight down through the centre of the Earth comes out at 42.0°S, 92.1°E. The nearest airport on this site to that point is Perth (PER) in Australia, still 2,385 km away — most of the planet's antipodes are ocean.
What’s near it
The closest other airport on this site is Chicago Midway (MDW), 25 km away in a straight line. It is the only one within 100 km.
Distances from ORD
Great circle distance and an estimated time in the air. The longest is London, at 6,344 km.
| To | Distance | Estimated | |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | JFK | 1,188 km | 1h 59m |
| Denver | DEN | 1,426 km | 2h 16m |
| Los Angeles | LAX | 2,802 km | 3h 59m |
| London | LHR | 6,344 km | 8h 23m |
What’s on this page, and what isn’t
Every figure here is computed from the airport’s coordinates and the rest of the table — distances, bearings, ranks, the antipode. Nothing is written by hand, so nothing on it is a half-remembered fact about a terminal that was rebuilt in 2019.
Which also means what you won’t find: no passenger figures, no terminal maps, no airline lists, no live departures. Orbit is a logbook, not a flight tracker, and a page that invented those would be worse than one that leaves them out.
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