- IATA
- ZRH
- the code on your bag tag
- ICAO
- LSZH
- used by air traffic control
- Opened
- 1953
- per Wikidata
- Passengers
- 32.6M
- in 2025
History & name
Zürich Airport opened in 1953, 10 km from Zürich, and is operated by Flughafen Zürich AG. Its 4 runways reach up to 3,700 m at an elevation of 1,417 feet, and it handled 32.6 million passengers in 2025.
Read more: Wikipedia ↗ · Wikidata ↗
At a glance
- Full name
- Zürich Airport
- Serves
- Zurich, Switzerland
- City centre
- 10 km from Zürich
- Opened
- 1953
- Operator
- Flughafen Zürich AG
- Passengers
- 32.6 million in 2025
- Runways
- 4 runways, longest 3,700 m
- Elevation
- 1,417 ft (432 m)
- Website
- zurich-airport.com ↗
Where it sits
47.5°N, 8.5°E puts ZRH in the northern hemisphere, 5,277 km from the equator and 4,730 km from the North pole.
Of the 661 airports on this site it is the 87th most northerly, which makes it the 575th most southerly.
Straight through the middle
Straight down through the centre of the Earth comes out at 47.5°S, 171.5°W. The nearest airport on this site to that point is Wellington (WLG) in New Zealand, still 1,284 km away — most of the planet's antipodes are ocean.
What’s near it
The closest other airport on this site is EuroAirport Basel–Mulhouse–Freiburg (BSL), 79 km away in a straight line. It is the only one within 100 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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