Airport
London Gatwick Airport LGW
London, United Kingdom · Large airport · ICAO EGKK
London's second airport and, for years, the busiest single-runway airport in the world. Its North and South terminals are linked by a shuttle, and a Gatwick-to-Heathrow connection is a surface transfer of an hour or more.
Reference data
- IATA
- LGW
- ICAO
- EGKK
- Elevation
- 202 ft
- Coordinates
- 51.1487, -0.1857
Local time at LGW
20:35 GMT+1
Sat, 3 Oct 2026 · UTC+01:00 · Europe/London
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Nearby airports
Ranked by actual distance from LGW'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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LHR | London Heathrow Airport | London | 41 km | Details |
| LCY | London City Airport | London | 43 km | Look up |
| SEN | London Southend Airport | Southend-on-Sea | 77 km | Look up |
| LTN | London Luton Airport | Luton | 82 km | Look up |
| SOU | Southampton Airport | Southampton | 85 km | Look up |
| STN | London Stansted Airport | London | 87 km | Look up |
Airlines based here
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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.