--- title: "SYD — Sydney Kingsford Smith Airport, Sydney · Orbit" description: "Sydney Kingsford Smith International Airport (SYD/YSSY) serves Sydney, Australia. Opened 1933, named after Charles Kingsford Smith, 29 million passengers in 2022." url: https://orbitflights.app/airports/syd --- Sydney · Australia · Oceania # SYD — Sydney Kingsford Smith Sydney Kingsford Smith International Airport serves Sydney, Australia, 9 km from the city centre, and sits at 33.9°S, 151.2°E. This site carries 19 routes touching it, with the great circle distance for each. **IATA** SYD the code on your bag tag **ICAO** YSSY used by air traffic control **Opened** 1933 per Wikidata **Passengers** 29M in 2022 ## History & name Sydney Kingsford Smith International Airport opened in 1933 and is named after the Australian aviator Charles Kingsford Smith (1897-1935). Operated by Sydney Airports Corporation Limited, it sits 9 km from Sydney with 3 runways, the longest 3,962 m, and handled 29 million passengers in 2022. Named after **Charles Kingsford Smith** — Australian aviator (1897-1935) Read more: [Wikipedia ↗](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney%5FAirport) · [Wikidata ↗](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17581) ## At a glance **Full name** Sydney Kingsford Smith International Airport **Serves** Sydney, Australia **City centre** 9 km from Sydney **Opened** 1933 **Operator** Sydney Airports Corporation Limited **Passengers** 29 million in 2022 **Runways** 3 runways, longest 3,962 m **Elevation** 21 ft (6 m) **Map** [Open in Google Maps ↗](https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=-33.94610,151.17700) **Website** [sydneyairport.com.au ↗](http://www.sydneyairport.com.au/) ## Where it sits 33.9°S, 151.2°E puts SYD in the southern hemisphere, 3,775 km from the equator and 6,233 km from the South pole. Of the 661 airports on this site it is the **632nd** most northerly, which makes it the 30th most southerly. ## Straight through the middle Straight down through the centre of the Earth comes out at 33.9°N, 28.8°W. The nearest airport on this site to that point is João Paulo II (PDL) in Portugal, still 507 km away — most of the planet's antipodes are ocean. ## What’s near it The closest other airport on this site is **Newcastle** (NTL), 142 km away in a straight line. Nothing else on this site is within 100 km. ## Distances from SYD Great circle distance and an estimated time in the air. The longest is Houston, at 13,836 km. | To | | Distance | Estimated | | --------------------------------------------------------------- | --- | --------- | --------- | | [Melbourne](https://orbitflights.app/routes/syd-to-mel) | MEL | 706 km | 1h 23m | | [Brisbane](https://orbitflights.app/routes/syd-to-bne) | BNE | 753 km | 1h 26m | | [Adelaide](https://orbitflights.app/routes/syd-to-adl) | ADL | 1,164 km | 1h 57m | | [Christchurch](https://orbitflights.app/routes/syd-to-chc) | CHC | 2,126 km | 3h 09m | | [Auckland](https://orbitflights.app/routes/syd-to-akl) | AKL | 2,159 km | 3h 11m | | [Port Moresby](https://orbitflights.app/routes/syd-to-pom) | POM | 2,754 km | 3h 55m | | [Nadi](https://orbitflights.app/routes/syd-to-nan) | NAN | 3,169 km | 4h 26m | | [Perth](https://orbitflights.app/routes/syd-to-per) | PER | 3,277 km | 4h 34m | | [Bali](https://orbitflights.app/routes/syd-to-dps) | DPS | 4,622 km | 6h 15m | | [Singapore](https://orbitflights.app/routes/syd-to-sin) | SIN | 6,293 km | 8h 19m | | [Tokyo](https://orbitflights.app/routes/syd-to-hnd) | HND | 7,818 km | 10h 13m | | [Honolulu](https://orbitflights.app/routes/hnl-to-syd) | HNL | 8,170 km | 10h 39m | | [Santiago](https://orbitflights.app/routes/scl-to-syd) | SCL | 11,340 km | 14h 36m | | [Buenos Aires](https://orbitflights.app/routes/eze-to-syd) | EZE | 11,767 km | 15h 07m | | [Los Angeles](https://orbitflights.app/routes/lax-to-syd) | LAX | 12,061 km | 15h 29m | | [Vancouver](https://orbitflights.app/routes/yvr-to-syd) | YVR | 12,501 km | 16h 02m | | [Dallas-Fort Worth](https://orbitflights.app/routes/dfw-to-syd) | DFW | 13,808 km | 17h 40m | | [Dallas-Fort Worth](https://orbitflights.app/routes/syd-to-dfw) | DFW | 13,808 km | 17h 40m | | [Houston](https://orbitflights.app/routes/iah-to-syd) | IAH | 13,836 km | 17h 42m | [Distance from SYD to any airport →](https://orbitflights.app/distance?from=SYD&to=IAH) [Map a trip from SYD →](https://orbitflights.app/tools/flight-route-map?r=SYD-IAH) ## 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 SYD to anywhere →](https://orbitflights.app/distance) [Flights to Sydney →](https://orbitflights.app/flights-to/sydney) ## Flown through SYD? Orbit knows all 8,801 airports offline and works out the distance the moment you enter two codes. [Download now](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.qwertybit.orbit) --- Markdown copy of https://orbitflights.app/airports/syd for language models and agents. Site index: https://orbitflights.app/llms.txt