- IATA
- SFO
- the code on your bag tag
- ICAO
- KSFO
- used by air traffic control
- Opened
- 1927
- per Wikidata
- Passengers
- 54.5M
- in 2025
History & name
Operated by the City and County of San Francisco, San Francisco International Airport opened in 1927 and sits 18 km from the city at 13 feet above sea level. Its 4 runways reach 3,618 m, and it handled 54.5 million passengers in 2025.
Read more: Wikipedia ↗ · Wikidata ↗
At a glance
- Full name
- San Francisco International Airport
- Serves
- San Francisco, United States
- City centre
- 18 km from San Francisco
- Opened
- 1927
- Operator
- City and County of San Francisco
- Passengers
- 54.5 million in 2025
- Runways
- 4 runways, longest 3,618 m
- Elevation
- 13 ft (4 m)
- Website
- flysfo.com ↗
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.
Where these facts come from
The profile is looked up, not written from memory: type, runways, elevation and the official website from OurAirports (public domain); opening year, namesake, operator and passenger count from Wikidata (CC0); the city centre from GeoNames (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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