ZRH
Zürich Airport
Zürich Airport (IATA: ZRH, ICAO: LSZH) is a large airport in Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland. It opened in 1953. It has 3 runways; the longest is 3,700 m (12,139 ft). It is operated by Flughafen Zürich AG. In 2025 it handled 32.6 million passengers.
Timeline
5 events · 1953–20011953
OpenedZürich Airport opens.
18 JAN 1971
DisasterBalkan Bulgarian Airlines Flight 130.45 killed
14 NOV 1990
DisasterAlitalia Flight 404.46 killed
10 JAN 2000
DisasterCrossair Flight 498.10 killed
24 NOV 2001
DisasterCrossair Flight 3597.24 killed
From WikidataEvery airfield, 1903–2026
Runways & airfield
Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap · 1 helipad16/34155° / 335° · LIT
LENGTH3,700 m12,139 ftWIDTH60 m197 ftSURFACEConcrete
14/32137° / 317° · LIT
LENGTH3,300 m10,827 ftWIDTH60 m197 ftSURFACEConcrete
10/28096° / 276° · LIT
LENGTH2,500 m8,202 ftWIDTH60 m197 ftSURFACEConcrete
Passengers per year
2014–202525.4M
26.2M
27.6M
29.4M
31.1M
31.5M
8.3M
10.2M
22.5M
28.9M
31.2M
32.6M
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Routes
181 destinations · 66 countriesYear-round96
MXPMilan Malpensa International AirportItaly · Ethiopian Airlines204 km127 miMUCMunich AirportGermany · Air Dolomiti, Lufthansa261 km162 miFRAFrankfurt Main AirportGermany · Air Dolomiti, Condor Flugdienst, Lufthansa286 km178 miCGNCologne Bonn AirportGermany · Eurowings392 km244 miDUSDüsseldorf AirportGermany · Eurowings445 km277 miCDGCharles de Gaulle International AirportFrance · Air France476 km296 miBRUBrussels AirportBelgium · Brussels Airlines483 km300 miAMSAmsterdam Airport SchipholNetherlands · KLM603 km375 miVIEVienna International AirportAustria · Austrian Airlines603 km375 miZAGZagreb Franjo Tuđman International AirportCroatia · Croatia Airlines605 km376 miBERBerlin Brandenburg AirportGermany · Eurowings, easyJet650 km404 miFCORome–Fiumicino Leonardo da Vinci International AirportItaly · ITA Airways, easyJet693 km431 miHAMHamburg Helmut Schmidt AirportGermany · Eurowings694 km431 miSPUSplit Saint Jerome AirportCroatia · Croatia Airlines, Edelweiss Air744 km462 miLGWLondon Gatwick AirportUnited Kingdom · easyJet754 km469 miLCYLondon City AirportUnited Kingdom · British Airways760 km472 miBODBordeaux–Mérignac AirportFrance · easyJet771 km479 miLHRLondon Heathrow AirportUnited Kingdom · British Airways788 km490 miLTNLondon Luton AirportUnited Kingdom · easyJet807 km501 miBCNJosep Tarradellas Barcelona-El Prat AirportSpain · Vueling856 km532 miBRSBristol AirportUnited Kingdom · easyJet923 km574 miCPHCopenhagen Kastrup AirportDenmark · Scandinavian Airlines950 km590 miBEGBelgrade Nikola Tesla AirportSerbia · Air Serbia951 km591 miPMIPalma de Mallorca AirportSpain · Chair Airlines, Edelweiss Air996 km619 miBIOBilbao AirportSpain · Edelweiss Air1,006 km625 miMANManchester AirportUnited Kingdom · easyJet1,007 km626 miTGDPodgorica Airport / Podgorica Golubovci AirbaseMontenegro · Air Montenegro1,014 km630 miWAWWarsaw Chopin AirportPoland · LOT Polish Airlines1,031 km641 miPRNPriština Adem Jashari International AirportKosovo · GP Aviation, easyJet, Chair Airlines +11,120 km696 miSUFLamezia Terme Sant'Eufemia International AirportItaly · Edelweiss Air1,136 km706 miOHDOhrid St. Paul the Apostle AirportNorth Macedonia · Chair Airlines1,193 km741 miSKPSkopje International AirportNorth Macedonia · Chair Airlines, Edelweiss Air1,198 km744 miCTACatania-Fontanarossa AirportItaly · Edelweiss Air1,232 km766 miDUBDublin AirportIreland · Aer Lingus1,238 km769 miMADAdolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas AirportSpain · Iberia, Air Europa1,239 km770 miEDIEdinburgh AirportUnited Kingdom · easyJet, Edelweiss Air1,248 km775 miSOFSofia AirportBulgaria · Bulgaria Air1,279 km795 miMLAMalta International AirportMalta · KM Malta Airlines1,381 km858 miSKGThessaloniki Macedonia International AirportGreece · Aegean Airlines1,385 km861 miVNOVilnius International AirportLithuania · AirBaltic1,411 km877 miOSLOslo-Gardermoen International AirportNorway · Scandinavian Airlines1,426 km886 miRIXRiga International AirportLatvia · AirBaltic1,481 km920 miARNStockholm-Arlanda AirportSweden · Scandinavian Airlines1,487 km924 miOPOFrancisco de Sá Carneiro AirportPortugal · easyJet, TAP Air Portugal1,530 km951 miSVQSeville AirportSpain · Edelweiss Air1,623 km1,008 miATHAthens Eleftherios Venizelos International AirportGreece · Aegean Airlines1,639 km1,018 miLISLisbon Humberto Delgado AirportPortugal · easyJet, TAP Air Portugal1,723 km1,071 miISTİstanbul AirportTürkiye · Turkish Airlines1,739 km1,081 miHELHelsinki Vantaa AirportFinland · Finnair1,779 km1,105 miSAWIstanbul Sabiha Gökçen International AirportTürkiye · Pegasus Airlines, AJet1,802 km1,120 miADBAdnan Menderes International AirportTürkiye · Pegasus Airlines, SunExpress1,820 km1,131 miCMNMohammed V International AirportMorocco · Royal Air Maroc2,070 km1,286 miESBEsenboğa International AirportTürkiye · SunExpress2,113 km1,313 miAYTAntalya International AirportTürkiye · SunExpress2,165 km1,345 miRAKMarrakesh Menara AirportMorocco · easyJet, Chair Airlines2,255 km1,401 miLCALarnaca International AirportCyprus · Cyprus Airways, Edelweiss Air2,505 km1,557 miTOSTromsø AirportNorway · Edelweiss Air2,535 km1,575 miKEFKeflavik International AirportIceland · Icelandair, Edelweiss Air2,631 km1,635 miGZTGaziantep Oğuzeli International AirportTürkiye · SunExpress2,633 km1,636 miFNCCristiano Ronaldo International AirportPortugal · Edelweiss Air2,688 km1,670 miCAICairo International AirportEgypt · EgyptAir2,745 km1,706 miACECésar Manrique-Lanzarote AirportSpain · Edelweiss Air2,806 km1,744 miTLVBen Gurion International AirportIsrael · EL AL Israel Airlines Ltd.2,809 km1,745 miFUEFuerteventura AirportSpain · Edelweiss Air2,865 km1,780 miAMMQueen Alia International AirportJordan · Royal Jordanian2,906 km1,806 miTBSTbilisi International AirportGeorgia · Edelweiss Air2,927 km1,819 miLPAGran Canaria AirportSpain · Edelweiss Air3,001 km1,865 miTFSTenerife Sur AirportSpain · Edelweiss Air3,062 km1,903 miHRGHurghada International AirportEgypt · Chair Airlines, Edelweiss Air3,146 km1,955 miRMFMarsa Alam International AirportEgypt · Chair Airlines, Edelweiss Air3,338 km2,074 miKWIKuwait International AirportKuwait · Kuwait Airways3,932 km2,443 miJEDKing Abdulaziz International AirportSaudi Arabia · Saudia3,960 km2,461 miRUHKing Khalid International AirportSaudi Arabia · Saudia4,174 km2,594 miDOHHamad International AirportQatar · Qatar Airways4,495 km2,793 miDXBDubai International AirportUnited Arab Emirates · Emirates4,769 km2,963 miAUHZayed International AirportUnited Arab Emirates · Etihad Airways4,779 km2,970 miDWCAl Maktoum International AirportUnited Arab Emirates · BeOnd4,781 km2,971 miMCTMuscat International AirportOman · Oman Air5,108 km3,174 miADDAddis Ababa Bole International AirportEthiopia · Ethiopian Airlines5,140 km3,194 miDELIndira Gandhi International AirportIndia · Air India6,148 km3,820 miJFKJohn F. Kennedy International AirportUnited States · Delta Air Lines6,310 km3,921 miEWRNewark Liberty International AirportUnited States · United Airlines6,333 km3,935 miPHLPhiladelphia International AirportUnited States · American Airlines6,460 km4,014 miYYZToronto Pearson International AirportCanada · Air Canada6,491 km4,033 miIADWashington Dulles International AirportUnited States · United Airlines6,673 km4,146 miORDChicago O'Hare International AirportUnited States · United Airlines7,131 km4,431 miPUJPunta Cana International AirportDominican Republic · Edelweiss Air7,526 km4,676 miMLEVelana International AirportMaldives · BeOnd7,804 km4,849 miTPATampa International AirportUnited States · Edelweiss Air7,836 km4,869 miCUNCancún International AirportMexico · Edelweiss Air8,693 km5,402 miMRUSir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam International AirportMauritius · Edelweiss Air9,001 km5,593 miPVGShanghai Pudong International AirportChina · China Eastern Airlines9,032 km5,612 miBKKSuvarnabhumi AirportThailand · Thai Airways9,054 km5,626 miHKGHong Kong International AirportHong Kong SAR China · Cathay Pacific9,280 km5,766 miSJOJuan Santamaría International AirportCosta Rica · Edelweiss Air9,396 km5,838 miSINSingapore Changi AirportSingapore · Singapore Airlines10,306 km6,404 miSeasonal96
MUCMunich AirportGermany · Travelcoup261 km162 miPUYPula AirportCroatia · Edelweiss Air502 km312 miCLYCalvi Sainte Catherine AirportFrance · Edelweiss Air548 km341 miAJAAjaccio Napoléon Bonaparte airportFrance · Air Corsica616 km383 miZADZadar AirportCroatia · Edelweiss Air646 km401 miFSCFigari Sud-Corse AirportFrance · Edelweiss Air664 km413 miOLBOlbia Costa Smeralda AirportItaly · easyJet, Edelweiss Air733 km455 miSTNLondon Stansted AirportUnited Kingdom · easyJet774 km481 miTZLTuzla International AirportBosnia & Herzegovina · Chair Airlines853 km530 miNAPNaples International AirportItaly · easyJet862 km536 miBIQBiarritz Pays Basque airportFrance · Edelweiss Air901 km560 miMAHMenorca AirportSpain · Edelweiss Air913 km567 miCAGCagliari Elmas AirportItaly · Edelweiss Air913 km567 miBRSBristol AirportUnited Kingdom · Edelweiss Air923 km574 miDBVDubrovnik Ruđer Bošković AirportCroatia · Croatia Airlines937 km582 miBRIBari Karol Wojtyła International AirportItaly · Edelweiss Air959 km596 miTIVTivat AirportMontenegro · Edelweiss Air977 km607 miPMIPalma de Mallorca AirportSpain · Travelcoup, easyJet, Condor Flugdienst +1996 km619 miNQYCornwall Airport NewquayUnited Kingdom · Edelweiss Air1,041 km647 miTIATirana International Airport Mother TeresaAlbania · Chair Airlines1,111 km690 miIBZIbiza AirportSpain · Travelcoup, Condor Flugdienst, Edelweiss Air1,117 km694 miPRNPriština Adem Jashari International AirportKosovo · Helvetic Airways1,120 km696 miSUFLamezia Terme Sant'Eufemia International AirportItaly · Condor Flugdienst1,136 km706 miOHDOhrid St. Paul the Apostle AirportNorth Macedonia · Helvetic Airways, Edelweiss Air1,193 km741 miALCAlicante-Elche Miguel Hernández AirportSpain · easyJet1,260 km783 miCFUCorfu Ioannis Kapodistrias International AirportGreece · Condor Flugdienst, Edelweiss Air1,263 km785 miGLAGlasgow AirportUnited Kingdom · Edelweiss Air1,291 km802 miORKCork International AirportIreland · Edelweiss Air1,316 km818 miPVKAktion National AirportGreece · Edelweiss Air1,368 km850 miSCQSantiago-Rosalía de Castro AirportSpain · Vueling, Edelweiss Air1,419 km882 miEFLKefallinia AirportGreece · Edelweiss Air1,421 km883 miOSLOslo-Gardermoen International AirportNorway · Norwegian Air Shuttle1,426 km886 miBGOBergen Airport, FleslandNorway · Edelweiss Air1,443 km897 miGPAPatras Araxos Agamemnon AirportGreece · Chair Airlines1,471 km914 miZTHZakynthos International Airport Dionysios SolomosGreece · Edelweiss Air1,474 km916 miJSISkiathos Island National AirportGreece · Edelweiss Air1,516 km942 miDJEDjerba Zarzis International AirportTunisia · Edelweiss Air1,522 km946 miOPOFrancisco de Sá Carneiro AirportPortugal · Chair Airlines1,530 km951 miVARVarna AirportBulgaria · Edelweiss Air1,573 km977 miKLXKalamata AirportGreece · Edelweiss Air1,597 km992 miAGPMálaga-Costa del Sol AirportSpain · easyJet1,607 km999 miXRYJerez AirportSpain · Edelweiss Air1,689 km1,049 miJMKMykonos Island National AirportGreece · Edelweiss Air1,766 km1,097 miFAOFaro - Gago Coutinho International AirportPortugal · easyJet, Edelweiss Air1,782 km1,107 miSMISamos AirportGreece · Edelweiss Air1,847 km1,148 miCHQChania International AirportGreece · Edelweiss Air1,850 km1,150 miJTRSantorini International AirportGreece · Edelweiss Air1,856 km1,153 miHERHeraklion International Nikos Kazantzakis AirportGreece · Chair Airlines, Condor Flugdienst, Aegean Airlines +11,926 km1,197 miKGSKos International Airport "Ippokratis"Greece · Chair Airlines, Condor Flugdienst, Edelweiss Air1,927 km1,197 miBJVMilas Bodrum International AirportTürkiye · Edelweiss Air1,929 km1,199 miRHORhodes International Airport "Diagoras"Greece · Chair Airlines, Condor Flugdienst, Edelweiss Air2,021 km1,256 miDLMDalaman International AirportTürkiye · SunExpress, Edelweiss Air2,044 km1,270 miAYTAntalya International AirportTürkiye · Edelweiss Air, Corendon Airlines2,165 km1,345 miLLALuleå AirportSweden · Edelweiss Air2,166 km1,346 miRAKMarrakesh Menara AirportMorocco · Edelweiss Air2,255 km1,401 miRVNRovaniemi AirportFinland · Edelweiss Air2,349 km1,460 miEVEHarstad/Narvik AirportNorway · Helvetic Airways, Edelweiss Air2,383 km1,481 miKAOKuusamo AirportFinland · Edelweiss Air2,391 km1,486 miKTTKittilä International AirportFinland · Helvetic Airways, Finnair, Edelweiss Air2,434 km1,512 miAGAAl Massira AirportMorocco · Edelweiss Air2,447 km1,520 miLCALarnaca International AirportCyprus · Chair Airlines, Condor Flugdienst2,505 km1,557 miAEYAkureyri International AirportIceland · Edelweiss Air2,559 km1,590 miIVLIvalo AirportFinland · Edelweiss Air2,575 km1,600 miSPXSphinx International AirportEgypt · Edelweiss Air2,715 km1,687 miPDLJoão Paulo II AirportPortugal · Edelweiss Air2,975 km1,849 miSPCLa Palma AirportSpain · Edelweiss Air3,085 km1,917 miSSHSharm El Sheikh International AirportEgypt · Edelweiss Air3,112 km1,934 miHRGHurghada International AirportEgypt · Air Cairo, Nesma Airlines3,146 km1,955 miLXRLuxor International AirportEgypt · Edelweiss Air3,217 km1,999 miRMFMarsa Alam International AirportEgypt · Air Cairo3,338 km2,074 miSIDAmílcar Cabral International AirportCape Verde · Edelweiss Air4,465 km2,774 miBVCAristides Pereira International AirportCape Verde · Edelweiss Air4,518 km2,807 miVXECesaria Evora International AirportCape Verde · Edelweiss Air4,582 km2,847 miRAINelson Mandela International AirportCape Verde · Edelweiss Air4,664 km2,898 miSLLSalalah International AirportOman · Edelweiss Air5,342 km3,319 miYHZHalifax / Stanfield International AirportCanada · Edelweiss Air5,351 km3,325 miJROKilimanjaro International AirportTanzania · Edelweiss Air6,305 km3,918 miZNZAbeid Amani Karume International AirportTanzania · Edelweiss Air6,685 km4,154 miSEZSeychelles International AirportSeychelles · Edelweiss Air7,387 km4,590 miATLHartsfield Jackson Atlanta International AirportUnited States · Delta Air Lines7,532 km4,680 miPOPGregorio Luperon International AirportDominican Republic · Edelweiss Air7,598 km4,721 miYYCCalgary International AirportCanada · Edelweiss Air7,762 km4,823 miMLEVelana International AirportMaldives · Edelweiss Air7,804 km4,849 miWDHHosea Kutako International AirportNamibia · Edelweiss Air7,828 km4,864 miCMBBandaranaike International Colombo AirportSri Lanka · Edelweiss Air8,021 km4,984 miMBJSangster International AirportJamaica · Edelweiss Air8,243 km5,122 miYVRVancouver International AirportCanada · Edelweiss Air8,308 km5,162 miDFWDallas Fort Worth International AirportUnited States · American Airlines8,413 km5,228 miCTGRafael Nuñez International AirportColombia · Edelweiss Air8,709 km5,412 miICNIncheon International AirportSouth Korea · Korean Air8,744 km5,433 miBOGEl Dorado International AirportColombia · Edelweiss Air9,074 km5,638 miCPTCape Town International AirportSouth Africa · Edelweiss Air9,110 km5,661 miLASHarry Reid International AirportUnited States · Edelweiss Air9,172 km5,699 miHKTPhuket International AirportThailand · Edelweiss Air9,327 km5,796 miSFOSan Francisco International AirportUnited States · United Airlines9,376 km5,826 miLIRDaniel Oduber Quirós International AirportCosta Rica · Edelweiss Air9,446 km5,869 miCharter2
HRGHurghada International AirportEgypt · Nile Air3,146 km1,955 miSFJKangerlussuaq International AirportGreenland · Edelweiss Air3,957 km2,459 miMost destinationsEdelweiss Air 100easyJet 19Chair Airlines 15Condor Flugdienst 9SunExpress 5Eurowings 4
Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from ZRH. Dashed: seasonal or charter. Blue: cargo. From the Wikipedia article “Zurich Airport” (revision of 26 Sep 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.
Records & rankings
Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · countryScale: share of airports ranked below, best on the right · ties shown as = and a band · passengers are each airport’s latest year on record
Radio frequencies
19 channelsAPPApproach (Final)125.325
ATISATIS125.725
CLDClearance Delivery121.925
DEPDeparture125.950
GNDGround121.902
RMP SOUTHApron (South)121.755
TMATerminal127.755
TWRTower118.100
RDR M1Radar M1133.050
RDR M2Radar M2133.405
RDR M3Radar M3132.815
RDR M4Radar M4134.600
RDR M5Radar M5132.833
RDR M6Radar M6133.690
RDR EASTRadar East133.900
RDR WESTRadar West135.680
RDR NRTHRadar North136.155
APP EASTApproach (East)135.225
RMP NORTHApron (North)121.855