airportsdata

Extensive database of location and timezone data for nearly every operational airport and landing strip in the world, with 28,186 entries.

Each entry consists of the following data:

• icao: ICAO 4-letter Location Indicator (Doc 7910) or (if none) an internal Pseudo-ICAO Identifier¹ (28,186 entries);
• iata: IATA 3-letter Location Code (7,821 entries) or an empty string²;
• name: Official name (diacritized latin script);
• city: City (diacritized latin script), ideally using the local language;
• subd: Subdivision (e.g. state, province, region, etc.), ideally using the local-language or English names of ISO 3166-2;
• country: ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code (plus XK for Kosovo);
• elevation: MSL elevation of the highest point of the landing area, in feet (warning: it is often wrong);
• lat: Latitude (decimal) of the airport reference point (max 5 decimal digits);
• lon: Longitude (decimal) of the airport reference point (max 5 decimal digits);
• tz: Timezone expressed as a tz database name (IANA-compliant);
• lid: U.S. FAA Location Identifier (12,603 entries), or an empty string.

Best efforts are placed to review all contributions for accuracy, but accuracy cannot be guaranteed nor should be expected by users.

Important notes:

• Timezone was originally sourced from TimeZoneDB;
• No historical data (closed airports are removed).

Please report any issues you may find here.

This project is a fork of https://github.com/mwgg/Airports. All new data submitted in this fork have been validated against national Aeronautical Information Publications (AIP) or equivalent (or ARINC database) and IATA before publishing.

Raw data

A CSV (comma separated values) file, with headers and encoded in UTF-8, is downloadable from GitHub here.

Python

Install from PyPi using pip:

pip install -U airportsdata

Once installed, to load the data into a dict:

import airportsdata
airports = airportsdata.load()  # key is the ICAO identifier (the default)
print(airports['KJFK'])

or

import airportsdata
airports = airportsdata.load('IATA')  # key is the IATA location code
print(airports['JFK'])

or

import airportsdata
airports = airportsdata.load('LID')  # key is the FAA LID
print(airports['01AA'])

Older Python versions are supported for 3 years after being obsoleted by a new major release (i.e. about 4 years since their original release).

License

Released under the MIT License (see license here).

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1. See here for an explanation on how the Pseudo-ICAO Identifier is generated for airports and seaplane bases without an ICAO 4-letter Location Indicator.↩

2. IATA Multi Airport Cities are not not airports and therfore not included, but we provide a database and a Python function that returns the above data for all the airports of a IATA MAC. Please see documentation here.↩