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title: "TLV — Ben Gurion Airport, Tel Aviv · Orbit"
description: "Ben Gurion International Airport (TLV/LLBG) serves Tel Aviv, Israel. Opened 1937, named after David Ben-Gurion, 20 million passengers in 2022, 13 km from Tel Aviv."
url: https://orbitflights.app/airports/tlv
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Tel Aviv · Israel · Asia

# TLV — Ben Gurion

Ben Gurion International Airport serves Tel Aviv, Israel, 13 km from the city centre, and sits at 32.0°N, 34.9°E. This site carries 1 route touching it, with the great circle distance for each.

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

**ICAO**
LLBG
used by air traffic control

**Opened**
1937
per Wikidata

**Passengers**
20M
in 2022

## History & name

Ben Gurion International Airport opened in 1937 and is named after David Ben-Gurion (1886–1973), Israeli politician, Zionist leader and prime minister of Israel. Operated by the Israel Airports Authority, it lies 13 km from Tel Aviv, has 3 runways up to 4,062 m and handled 20 million passengers in 2022.

Named after **David Ben-Gurion** — Israeli politician, Zionist leader, prime minister of Israel (1948–1953, 1955–1963) - (born1886–1973)

Read more: [Wikipedia ↗](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben%5FGurion%5FInternational%5FAirport) · [Wikidata ↗](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q181479)

## At a glance

**Full name**
Ben Gurion International Airport

**Serves**
Tel Aviv, Israel

**City centre**
13 km from Tel Aviv

**Opened**
1937

**Operator**
Israel Airports Authority

**Passengers**
20 million in 2022

**Runways**
3 runways, longest 4,062 m

**Elevation**
135 ft (41 m)

**Map**
[Open in Google Maps ↗](https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=32.01140,34.88670)

**Website**
[iaa.gov.il ↗](http://www.iaa.gov.il/Rashat/en-US/Airports/BenGurion/)

## Where it sits

32.0°N, 34.9°E puts TLV in the northern hemisphere, 3,560 km from the equator and 6,448 km from the North pole.

Of the 661 airports on this site it is the **285th** most northerly, which makes it the 377th most southerly.

## Straight through the middle

Straight down through the centre of the Earth comes out at 32.0°S, 145.1°W. The nearest airport on this site to that point is Fa'a'ā (PPT) in French Polynesia, still 1,670 km away — most of the planet's antipodes are ocean.

## What’s near it

The closest other airport on this site is **Queen Alia** (AMM), 109 km away in a straight line. Nothing else on this site is within 100 km.

## Distances from TLV

Great circle distance and an estimated time in the air.

| To                                                   |     | Distance | Estimated |
| ---------------------------------------------------- | --- | -------- | --------- |
| [London](https://orbitflights.app/routes/lhr-to-tlv) | LHR | 3,589 km | 4h 58m    |

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

[Measure TLV to anywhere →](https://orbitflights.app/distance)

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