Airport
Amsterdam Airport Schiphol AMS
Amsterdam, Netherlands · Large airport · ICAO EHAM
Operates a single terminal split into three departure halls, so airside connections are unusually quick for a hub of its size. It sits about 3 metres below sea level on reclaimed Haarlemmermeer polder — among the lowest major airports in the world.
Reference data
- IATA
- AMS
- ICAO
- EHAM
- Elevation
- -11 ft
- Coordinates
- 52.3086, 4.7639
Local time at AMS
21:35 GMT+2
Sat, 3 Oct 2026 · UTC+02:00 · Europe/Amsterdam
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Routes covered from AMS
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Staying near AMS
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Nearby airports
Ranked by actual distance from AMS's coordinates, not by name or region. Useful when a fare or a schedule makes a neighbouring airport worth the ground transfer.
| IATA | Airport | City | Distance | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| RTM | Rotterdam The Hague Airport | Rotterdam | 45 km | Look up |
| EIN | Eindhoven Airport | Eindhoven | 104 km | Look up |
| NRN | Weeze (Niederrhein) Airport | Weeze | 123 km | Look up |
| ANR | Antwerp International Airport (Deurne) | Antwerp | 126 km | Look up |
| GRQ | Groningen Airport Eelde | Groningen | 152 km | Look up |
| BRU | Brussels Airport | Zaventem | 158 km | Look up |
Airlines based here
Carriers in this site's directory that treat AMS as a hub. This is not a list of every airline serving the airport.
Verify anything that matters
Terminals, transfer times and facilities change, and this page does not track them. For operational detail, go to the airport itself.
Official AMS website Amsterdam Airport Schiphol on Wikipedia
Where this data comes from
Codes, coordinates and elevation come from the public-domain OurAirports dataset, pinned at build time — 4,133 airports, last refreshed 6 September 2026. The time zone is derived from the coordinates above.