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title: "ZRH — Zürich Airport, Zurich · Orbit"
description: "Zürich Airport (ZRH/LSZH) serves Zurich, Switzerland. Opened 1953, 32.6 million passengers in 2025, 10 km from Zürich. Map, website and distances to 4 destinations."
url: https://orbitflights.app/airports/zrh
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Zurich · Switzerland · Europe

# ZRH — Zürich

Zürich Airport serves Zurich, Switzerland, 10 km from the centre of Zürich, and sits at 47.5°N, 8.5°E. This site carries 4 routes touching it, with the great circle distance for each.

**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 ↗](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zurich%5FAirport) · [Wikidata ↗](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15114)

## 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)

**Map**
[Open in Google Maps ↗](https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=47.45810,8.54810)

**Website**
[zurich-airport.com ↗](http://www.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.

BSL EuroAirport Basel–Mulhouse–Freiburg 79 km

## Distances from ZRH

Great circle distance and an estimated time in the air. The longest is Singapore, at 10,306 km.

| To                                                      |     | Distance  | Estimated |
| ------------------------------------------------------- | --- | --------- | --------- |
| [London](https://orbitflights.app/routes/lhr-to-zrh)    | LHR | 788 km    | 1h 29m    |
| [Dubai](https://orbitflights.app/routes/zrh-to-dxb)     | DXB | 4,769 km  | 6h 26m    |
| [New York](https://orbitflights.app/routes/zrh-to-jfk)  | JFK | 6,310 km  | 8h 20m    |
| [Singapore](https://orbitflights.app/routes/zrh-to-sin) | SIN | 10,306 km | 13h 18m   |

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

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

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