airportsdata 20220518

Extensive database of location and timezone data for nearly every airport and landing strip in the world.

Extensive database of location and timezone data for nearly every airport and landing strip in the world, with 28,875 entries.

Each entry consists of the following data:

• icao: ICAO 4-alphanumeric code or FAA/TC LID[*] (28,875 entries)

• iata: IATA 3-letter code (for 6,567 entries) 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 country code (plus XK for Kosovo)

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

• lat: Latitude (decimal)

• lon: Longitude (decimal)

• tz: Timezone expressed as a tz database name (IANA-compliant)

[*]

See here for an explanation on how airports with only an U.S. FAA or Transport Canada Location Identifier location identifier (FAA/TC LID) are listed. See here for a list of IATA Multi Airport Cities.

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

Known issues:

• 219 aerodromes have IATA codes that are not in the IATA database and may be incorrect;

• A small, but unknown, number of aerodromes are missing their IATA code (none are major ones);

• Timezone was originally sourced from TimeZoneDB and is missing for Antarctica;

• No historical data.

Please report any issues you may find here.

This project is a fork of https://github.com/mwgg/Airports. All IATA codes submitted in this fork have been validated against IATA.

Raw data

A CSV (comma separated values) file with headers (UTF-8 encoding) 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 ICAO code, the default
print(airports['KJFK'])

or

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

License

Released under the MIT License (see license here).