airportsdata 20201107

Global airport data

A UTF-8 CSV database (with Python code to access it) of 28,867 entries with basic information about nearly every airport and landing strip in the world. Also includes IATA codes for 6,577 aerodromes.

Each entry consists of:

• icao: ICAO 4-character code or FAA 3-character code

• iata: IATA 3-letter code or an empty string

• name: official name (latin script)

• city: city

• subd: subdivision (e.g. state, province, region, etc.)

• country: ISO 3166-1 alpha 2-code + XK for Kosovo

• elevation: MSL elevation (the highest point of the landing area) in feet

• lat: latitude (decimal)

• lon: longitude (decimal)

• tz: timezone expressed in tz database name (IANA-compliant) string (empty string for AQ Antarctica). Originally sourced from TimeZoneDB

Best efforts are placed to review all contributions for accuracy but accuracy cannot be guaranteed or expeted.

This project is a fork of https://github.com/mwgg/Airports

Python

Install using pip

pip install airportsdata

To load the data into a dict:

import airportsdata
airports = airportsdata.load()  # key is ICAO code

or

import airportsdata
airports = airportsdata.load('IATA')  # key is IATA code

Download

Download the file airports.csv from https://github.com/mborsetti/airportsdata/raw/main/airportsdata/airports.csv or use git software

License

Released under the MIT License. See the license here.