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title: "VIE — Vienna Airport, Vienna · Orbit"
description: "Vienna International Airport (VIE/LOWW) serves Vienna, Austria. Opened 1954, 32.6 million passengers in 2025, 18 km from Vienna."
url: https://orbitflights.app/airports/vie
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Vienna · Austria · Europe

# VIE — Vienna

Vienna International Airport serves Vienna, Austria, 18 km from the city centre, and sits at 48.1°N, 16.6°E. This site carries 3 routes touching it, with the great circle distance for each.

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

**ICAO**
LOWW
used by air traffic control

**Opened**
1954
per Wikidata

**Passengers**
32.6M
in 2025

## History & name

Vienna International Airport takes its name from Vienna and Schwechat and opened in 1954, 18 km from the city. Flughafen Wien AG operates its two runways, the longer 3,600 m, and the airport handled 32.6 million passengers in 2025.

Read more: [Wikipedia ↗](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vienna%5FInternational%5FAirport) · [Wikidata ↗](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q32999)

## At a glance

**Full name**
Vienna International Airport

**Serves**
Vienna, Austria

**City centre**
18 km from Vienna

**Opened**
1954

**Operator**
Flughafen Wien AG

**Passengers**
32.6 million in 2025

**Runways**
2 runways, longest 3,600 m

**Elevation**
600 ft (183 m)

**Map**
[Open in Google Maps ↗](https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=48.11030,16.56970)

**Website**
[viennaairport.com ↗](http://www.viennaairport.com/en/)

## Where it sits

48.1°N, 16.6°E puts VIE in the northern hemisphere, 5,350 km from the equator and 4,658 km from the North pole.

Of the 661 airports on this site it is the **83rd** most northerly, which makes it the 579th most southerly.

## Straight through the middle

Straight down through the centre of the Earth comes out at 48.1°S, 163.4°W. The nearest airport on this site to that point is Hawke's Bay (NPE) in New Zealand, still 1,843 km away — most of the planet's antipodes are ocean.

## What’s near it

The closest other airport on this site is **M. R. Štefánik** (BTS), 48 km away in a straight line. It is the only one within 100 km.

BTS M. R. Štefánik 48 km

## Distances from VIE

Great circle distance and an estimated time in the air. The longest is Bangkok, at 8,451 km.

| To                                                      |     | Distance | Estimated |
| ------------------------------------------------------- | --- | -------- | --------- |
| [Bucharest](https://orbitflights.app/routes/otp-to-vie) | OTP | 830 km   | 1h 32m    |
| [London](https://orbitflights.app/routes/lhr-to-vie)    | LHR | 1,275 km | 2h 05m    |
| [Bangkok](https://orbitflights.app/routes/vie-to-bkk)   | BKK | 8,451 km | 11h 00m   |

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

## 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 VIE to anywhere →](https://orbitflights.app/distance)

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