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title: "RAK — Marrakesh Menara Airport, Marrakesh · Orbit"
description: "Marrakesh Menara Airport (RAK/GMMX) serves Marrakesh, Morocco. Opened 1942, 4.9 million passengers in 2022, 5 km from Marrakesh."
url: https://orbitflights.app/airports/rak
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Marrakesh · Morocco · Africa

# RAK — Marrakesh Menara

Marrakesh Menara Airport serves Marrakesh, Morocco, 5 km from the city centre, and sits at 31.6°N, 8.0°W. This site carries 1 route touching it, with the great circle distance for each.

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

**ICAO**
GMMX
used by air traffic control

**Opened**
1942
per Wikidata

**Passengers**
4.9M
in 2022

## History & name

Marrakesh Menara Airport opened in 1942 and is operated by ONDA and the Royal Moroccan Air Force. It lies 5 km from Marrakesh, handled 4.9 million passengers in 2022 and has one runway of 3,100 m at 1,545 ft.

Read more: [Wikipedia ↗](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menara%5FInternational%5FAirport) · [Wikidata ↗](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q429304)

## At a glance

**Full name**
Marrakesh Menara Airport

**Serves**
Marrakesh, Morocco

**City centre**
5 km from Marrakesh

**Opened**
1942

**Operator**
Royal Moroccan Air Force, ONDA

**Passengers**
4.9 million in 2022

**Runways**
1 runway, 3,100 m

**Elevation**
1,545 ft (471 m)

**Map**
[Open in Google Maps ↗](https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=31.60480,-8.03580)

## Where it sits

31.6°N, 8.0°W puts RAK in the northern hemisphere, 3,514 km from the equator and 6,493 km from the North pole.

Of the 661 airports on this site it is the **292nd** most northerly, which makes it the 370th most southerly.

## Straight through the middle

Straight down through the centre of the Earth comes out at 31.6°S, 172.0°E. The nearest airport on this site to that point is Auckland (AKL) in New Zealand, still 655 km away — most of the planet's antipodes are ocean.

## What’s near it

The closest other airport on this site is **Essaouira-Mogador** (ESU), 158 km away in a straight line. Nothing else on this site is within 100 km.

## Distances from RAK

Great circle distance and an estimated time in the air.

| To                                                   |     | Distance | Estimated |
| ---------------------------------------------------- | --- | -------- | --------- |
| [London](https://orbitflights.app/routes/lhr-to-rak) | LHR | 2,294 km | 3h 21m    |

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

## 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.

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