Airport

John F. Kennedy International Airport JFK

New York, United States · Large airport · ICAO KJFK

Named for President Kennedy in 1963, having opened as Idlewild — which is why older timetables show IDL. Its terminals are run largely by individual airlines, so a connection here can mean a genuine change of building, and the AirTrain between them is a scheduled ride rather than a walk.

Reference data

IATA: JFK
ICAO: KJFK
Elevation: 13 ft
Coordinates: 40.6394, -73.7793

Local time at JFK

15:35 EDT

Sat, 3 Oct 2026 · UTC−04:00 · America/New_York

Offsets shift with daylight saving. The time zone planner resolves them for a specific travel date rather than today.

John F. Kennedy International Airport at 40.64, -73.78.

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Routes covered from JFK

Distances and time-zone comparisons for airport pairs involving JFK. These are reference pages about the geography of a route — not schedules, and not a claim that any airline flies it.

AMS → JFK

Amsterdam to New York
5,863 km · about 7h 34m flying

via Amsterdam

CDG → JFK

Paris to New York
5,850 km · about 7h 33m flying

via Paris

DOH → JFK

Doha to New York
10,790 km · about 13h 25m flying

via Doha

FRA → JFK

Frankfurt to New York
6,206 km · about 7h 58m flying

via Frankfurt

IST → JFK

Istanbul to New York
8,046 km · about 10h 10m flying

via Istanbul

JFK → CDG

New York to Paris
5,850 km · about 7h 33m flying

via Paris

JFK → DXB

New York to Dubai
11,023 km · about 13h 42m flying

via Dubai

JFK → LAX

New York to Los Angeles
3,983 km · about 5h 19m flying

via Los Angeles

JFK → LHR

New York to London
5,555 km · about 7h 12m flying

via London

LHR → JFK

London to New York
5,555 km · about 7h 12m flying

via London

MAD → JFK

Madrid to New York
5,775 km · about 7h 27m flying

via Madrid

Staying near JFK

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Nearby airports

Ranked by actual distance from JFK'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
LGA	LaGuardia Airport	New York	17 km	Look up
NYS	New York Skyports Inc Seaplane Base	New York	19 km	Look up
TSS	East 34th Street Heliport	New York	20 km	Look up
JRA	West 30th Street Heliport	New York	23 km	Look up
TEB	Teterboro Airport	Teterboro	33 km	Look up
EWR	Newark Liberty International Airport	Newark	33 km	Look up

Airlines based here

Carriers in this site's directory that treat JFK as a hub. This is not a list of every airline serving the airport.

American Airlines AA

Secondary hub · United States

Delta Air Lines DL

Secondary hub · United States

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 JFK website John F. Kennedy International Airport 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.

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