- IATA
- SFO
- the code on your bag tag
- ICAO
- KSFO
- used by air traffic control
- Routes here
- 11
- in the catalogue
- From the equator
- 4,183 km
- 5,824 km from the North pole
Where it sits
37.6°N, 122.4°W puts SFO in the northern hemisphere, 4,183 km from the equator and 5,824 km from the North pole.
Of the 661 airports on this site it is the 207th most northerly, which makes it the 455th most southerly.
Straight through the middle
Straight down through the centre of the Earth comes out at 37.6°S, 57.6°E. The nearest airport on this site to that point is Roland Garros (RUN) in Réunion, still 1,871 km away — most of the planet's antipodes are ocean.
What’s near it
The closest other airport on this site is Oakland San Francisco Bay (OAK), 18 km away in a straight line. 2 airports here sit within 100 km — worth checking which one your ticket actually says.
Distances from SFO
Great circle distance and an estimated time in the air. The longest is Bangalore, at 13,988 km.
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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