airportsdata 20221121

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 operational airport and landing strip in the world, with 28,130 entries.

Each entry consists of the following data:

• icao: ICAO 4-letter Location Indicator, or, if missing, a 4-alphanumeric or K + 3-alphanumeric FAA LID[*] (28,130 entries)

• iata: IATA 3-letter Location Code (6,577 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)

• lid: U.S. FAA location identifier (12,566 entries) or an empty string

[*]

See here for an explanation on how airports and seaplane bases with only an U.S. FAA Location Identifier (FAA LID), or IATA location identifier, 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:

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

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

• 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 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 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'])

License

Released under the MIT License (see license here).