Tinedol99/airport-codes

Airport codes: IATA, ICAO, city, country, coordinates

Every airport with an IATA code and scheduled passenger flights: 4,008 airports in 233 countries and territories, with IATA and ICAO codes, name, the city it serves, country, region, coordinates, elevation, size, city code and Wikidata ID. JSON and CSV, one row per airport.

CC0: copy it, change it, sell it, no attribution needed.

This copy is a snapshot from 2026-10-13. The latest version is always at https://airportmiles.com/data (refreshed every month).

Files

File	What
airports.csv	One row per airport, UTF-8, header row
airports.json	{ generated, licence, sources, airports: [...] }, same fields

Fields

Field	What	Example
iata	IATA code (3 letters)	LJU
icao	ICAO code (4 letters), when there is one	LJLJ
name	Airport name	Ljubljana Jože Pučnik Airport
municipality	Where it stands	Zgornji Brnik
served_city	The city it serves (Wikidata)	Ljubljana
country	ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code	SI
region	Region or state	Cerklje na Gorenjskem Municipality
latitude	WGS-84, 4 decimals	46.2237
longitude	WGS-84, 4 decimals	14.4576
elevation_m	Metres above sea level	388
size	large, medium or small (OurAirports class)	large
city_code	Code for all airports of a city, where there is one	LON (for LHR)
wikidata	Wikidata item	Q1109558

3,938 airports have an ICAO code; 64 share a city code with the other airports of their city (LON, NYC, PAR …). Missing values are empty in the CSV and null in the JSON.

iata,icao,name,municipality,served_city,country,region,latitude,longitude,elevation_m,size,city_code,wikidata
LHR,EGLL,London Heathrow Airport,London,London,GB,England,51.4707,-0.4599,25,large,LON,Q8691
JFK,KJFK,John F. Kennedy International Airport,New York,New York City,US,New York,40.6394,-73.7793,4,large,NYC,Q8685
LJU,LJLJ,Ljubljana Jože Pučnik Airport,Zgornji Brnik,Ljubljana,SI,Cerklje na Gorenjskem Municipality,46.2237,14.4576,388,large,,Q1109558

Quick start

The URLs below always serve the latest version.

import pandas as pd
airports = pd.read_csv("https://airportmiles.com/downloads/airports.csv", keep_default_na=False, na_values=[""])
airports[airports.city_code == "LON"][["iata", "name"]]

const { airports } = await (await fetch('https://airportmiles.com/downloads/airports.json')).json()
const byIata = new Map(airports.map(a => [a.iata, a]))
byIata.get('LHR').name // "London Heathrow Airport"

curl -s https://airportmiles.com/downloads/airports.json | jq '.airports[] | select(.country == "SI")'

keep_default_na=False matters: without it pandas reads Namibia's country code NA as missing.

More per airport: the JSON API

Routes with distances and passengers, nearby airports, runways, airlines, punctuality, and one file per route with distance, flight time and EU261 band. Static JSON files, no key, open CORS:

curl -s https://airportmiles.com/api/v1/airports/lhr.json
curl -s https://airportmiles.com/api/v1/routes/jfk-lhr.json

Docs: https://airportmiles.com/api · OpenAPI 3.1: https://airportmiles.com/api/v1/openapi.json

How it is built

• OurAirports (public domain): codes, names, positions, elevation, size.
• Wikidata (CC0): the city each airport serves, Wikidata IDs. A Wikidata airport only counts when it stands within 50 km of where OurAirports puts the code.
• City codes (LON, NYC, PAR …): a hand-checked list of the multi-airport city codes on tickets.
• Only airports with an IATA code and scheduled passenger service.

Not included, on purpose: time zones (they come from timezone-boundary-builder, which is under the ODbL, so they are shown on the website only) and traffic numbers (each statistics office has its own terms: https://airportmiles.com/sources).

Fixes

A wrong code or position? Fix it at the source (OurAirports or Wikidata) and it arrives with the next monthly refresh, or write to hello@airportmiles.com.

Licence

CC0 1.0 Universal. No warranty: check codes and positions against an official source before using them for anything where a mistake matters (flight planning, navigation, legal documents). A link back to https://airportmiles.com/data is welcome, not required.