Airports

Name: Airports
Creator: staticdata.dev
License: https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT

4 500+ commercial and major airports worldwide, each with its IATA and ICAO codes, human-readable name, municipality, ISO country code, WGS-84 coordinates, elevation in feet, and airport type (large or medium). Use it for flight-search autocomplete, route planning, geo lookups, and any application that needs a reliable, coded list of the world's airports.

v1.0.0 MIT 4,568 records Updated 2026-10-05 stable Source: OurAirports (David Megginson)

Quick fetch

Stable URL. CORS-enabled. No auth.

bash

curl https://staticdata.dev/v1/airports.json

Or use as a typed import: import { airports } from "https://staticdata.dev/v1/airports.ts"

Formats

JSON 1.02 MB

/v1/airports.json

Open

min: 780.9 KB · /v1/airports.min.json
CSV 406.0 KB

/v1/airports.csv

Open
TypeScript 1.02 MB

/v1/airports.ts

export const airports

type Airport = (typeof airports)[number]

Open

Schema

Each record in the dataset has the following shape.

Schema
Field	Type	Description	Example
iata	string	IATA 3-letter airport code	JFK
icao?	string \| null	ICAO 4-letter ident (may equal local code)	KJFK
name	string	Full airport name	John F Kennedy International Airport
city?	string \| null	Municipality served by the airport	New York
country	string	ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code	US
lat	number	WGS-84 latitude in decimal degrees	40.63972
lon	number	WGS-84 longitude in decimal degrees	-73.77889
elevationFt?	number \| null	Elevation above mean sea level in feet	13
type	string	Airport size class: large_airport or medium_airport	large_airport

Preview

First 10 records.

Data preview
iata	icao	name	city	country	lat
AAA	NTGA	Anaa Airport	Anaa	PF	-17.3526
AAC	HEAR	El Arish International Airport	El Arish	EG	31.055324
AAE	DABB	Annaba Rabah Bitat Airport	Annaba	DZ	36.826781
AAL	EKYT	Aalborg Airport	Aalborg	DK	57.094763
AAM	FAMD	Malamala Airport	Malamala	ZA	-24.816866
AAN	OMAL	Al Ain International Airport	Al Ain	AE	24.2617
AAO	SVAN	Anaco Airport	Anaco	VE	9.430225
AAP	WALS	Aji Pangeran Tumenggung Pranoto International Airport	Samarinda	ID	-0.374478
AAQ	URKA	Anapa Vityazevo Airport	Krasnyi Kurgan	RU	45.002102
AAR	EKAH	Aarhus Airport	Aarhus	DK	56.303331

Showing 10 of 4,568. View full data: JSON · CSV

Fetch examples

Drop-in snippets in five languages.

curl

curl -sSL https://staticdata.dev/v1/airports.json | jq '.[0]'

JavaScript

import type { Airport } from "https://staticdata.dev/v1/airports.ts";

const res = await fetch("https://staticdata.dev/v1/airports.min.json");
if (!res.ok) throw new Error(`Fetch failed: ${res.status}`);
const airports: Airport[] = await res.json();
console.log(airports[0]);

Python

import urllib.request, json

with urllib.request.urlopen("https://staticdata.dev/v1/airports.min.json") as r:
    airports = json.load(r)

print(airports[0])

package main

import (
	"encoding/json"
	"fmt"
	"net/http"
)

func main() {
	resp, err := http.Get("https://staticdata.dev/v1/airports.min.json")
	if err != nil { panic(err) }
	defer resp.Body.Close()

	var data []map[string]any
	if err := json.NewDecoder(resp.Body).Decode(&data); err != nil {
		panic(err)
	}
	fmt.Println(data[0])
}

Rust

use serde_json::Value;

fn main() -> Result<(), Box<dyn std::error::Error>> {
    let body = ureq::get("https://staticdata.dev/v1/airports.min.json").call()?.into_string()?;
    let data: Vec<Value> = serde_json::from_str(&body)?;
    println!("{:?}", data.first());
    Ok(())
}

Sources and methodology

The dataset is derived from the OurAirports open-data project maintained by David Megginson and contributors. The upstream CSV is released into the public domain and updated frequently by a global volunteer community. Only rows where type is large_airport or medium_airport and an IATA code is present are included, which removes private strips, heliports, seaplane bases, and small GA fields that are irrelevant for most developer use cases.

Each record’s iata field is the IATA Location Identifier (the three-letter code printed on baggage tags). The icao field is taken from the OurAirports ident column, which for most international airports matches the ICAO four-letter designator but may be a local code for some regional airports. Coordinates (lat, lon) are WGS-84 decimal degrees sourced from OurAirports; elevationFt is in feet above mean sea level and is null where the source does not record an elevation.

Country codes follow ISO 3166-1 alpha-2. A small number of airports are assigned to territories rather than sovereign states (e.g. GF for French Guiana, PR for Puerto Rico); this mirrors standard IATA country assignments. Records are sorted alphabetically by IATA code for deterministic diffs and predictable binary search. The current snapshot (4 568 airports) was regenerated from OurAirports as of October 2026; it reflects recent changes such as Palm Beach International becoming President Donald J. Trump International Airport with IATA code DJT (formerly PBI, August 2026). IATA codes are occasionally reassigned or retired when airports close or are renamed, so do not treat them as permanent identifiers.

Versioning

URLs under /v1/ are stable: field names and types will not change in a way that breaks consumers. Values can be corrected or records added when the upstream source changes; schema-incompatible updates ship under a new version path. See the airports changelog for this dataset's history.

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