Airport
İstanbul Airport IST
Istanbul, Türkiye · Large airport · ICAO LTFM
Replaced Atatürk Airport in 2019 in a single overnight move, taking the IST code with it — so anything published before then refers to a different site. Built for very high capacity, it anchors Turkish Airlines' strategy of connecting Europe with Asia and Africa.
Reference data
- IATA
- IST
- ICAO
- LTFM
- Elevation
- 325 ft
- Coordinates
- 41.2749, 28.7321
Local time at IST
22:35 GMT+3
Sat, 3 Oct 2026 · UTC+03:00 · Europe/Istanbul
Offsets shift with daylight saving. The time zone planner resolves them for a specific travel date rather than today.
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Routes covered from IST
Distances and time-zone comparisons for airport pairs involving IST. These are reference pages about the geography of a route — not schedules, and not a claim that any airline flies it.
Staying near IST
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Nearby airports
Ranked by actual distance from IST'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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SAW | Istanbul Sabiha Gökçen International Airport | Pendik | 64 km | Look up |
| TEQ | Tekirdağ Çorlu Airport | Çorlu | 70 km | Look up |
| YEI | Bursa Yenişehir Airport | Yenişehir | 133 km | Look up |
| BOJ | Burgas Airport | Burgas | 176 km | Look up |
| BZI | Balıkesir Airport | Balıkesir | 196 km | Look up |
| AOE | Hasan Polatkan Airport | Eskişehir | 222 km | Look up |
Airlines based here
Carriers in this site's directory that treat IST 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.
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.